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Source: COVID-19 Disinfectants  May 04, 2020  5 years ago
COVID-19 Disinfectants: As various countries around the world ease shutdowns or lockdowns either as a result of COVID-19 infections decreasing or due to increasing economic pressure to restart up businesses, it is also imperative that more precautionary and safety measures along social distancing guidelines are put into place to prevent new spikes of infections.   Health authorities, companie...
Source: COVID-19 Alerts  May 04, 2020  5 years ago
COVID-19 Alerts: British doctors are baffled and are reporting of a new anomalous occurrences of COVID-19 patients with extremely low oxygen levels in their blood , ie a condition known as hypoxia but yet appearing normal and not in any kind of distress. The doctors are shocked that these Covid-19 patients are talking normally and apparently not in distress, but have oxygen levels low enough to ...
Source: COVID-19 Research  May 04, 2020  5 years ago
COVID-19 Research: Glycosaminoglycans are a class of polydisperse and heterogeneous natural occurring products currently used as pharmaceuticals and even in nutritional supplements. Included among them are unfractionated heparin, low molecular weight heparins, and heparinoids, all of which are clinically approved as anticoagulants with excellent bioavailability, stability, and safety pharmacokin...
Source: COVID-19 Tips  May 03, 2020  5 years ago
COVID-19 Tips: Yes, many are confused by the headlines and some might even accuse us of creating panic, spreading fear or misinformation. But please just take a moment and go through the repository of articles and archives of all our reports or findings and note the dates. We were the first to highlight so many issues from the beginning of the so-called COVID-19 crisis and to date we have yet to b...
Source: COVID-19 News  May 03, 2020  5 years ago
COVID-19 News: The Japanese government has announced that it too will be rushing to approve Remdesivir to treat Japanese patients with this other controversial drug that the US FDA approved last Friday. Prospective Defendants?   Earlier, the US government and US health agencies had promoted and approved the usage of chloroquine and hydroxchloroquine to treat COVID-19 based on the adulterate...
Source: COVID-19 Research  May 03, 2020  5 years ago
COVID-19 Research: A new research by Chinese medical scientists indicates that inflammatory immune response can cause T cells to become depleted, affecting patient outcomes in COVID-19  cases and leaving them prone to secondary infection. According to the research findings published in Frontiers in Immunology Journal, cytokine storms may affect the severity of COVID-19 cases...
Source: COVID-19 Research  May 02, 2020  5 years ago
COVID-19 Research: Dutch medical researchers from the Hubrecht Institute in Utrecht, Erasmus MC University Medical Center Rotterdam, and Maastricht University in the Netherlands have discovered that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus which causes the deadly COVID-19, can infect cells of the intestine and multiply there. Illustration of a villus in the intestine with a zoom-in to an electron microscopy i...
Source: US COVID-19 News  May 02, 2020  5 years ago
US COVID-19 News: Innocent and suffering Americans are getting their lives placed on risk again, this time as the incompetent and fraudulent team comprising of President Trump, Dr Anthony Fauci and the US FDA has rapidly approved Remdesivir as a drug to treat COVID-19 despite conflicting study results and the fact that the drug does not clearly demonstrate any specific efficacy against the SARS-Co...
Source: COVID-19 Warning  May 01, 2020  5 years ago
COVID-19 Warning: Disturbing news is emerging as research findings from a collaborative study involving medical, genomic and virology researchers from Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico-US, University Of Sheffield-UK, Duke University in North Carolina-US, Sheffield Teaching Hospital-UK and the NHS-Foundation-UK, show that the Spike elements of SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is mutating in a mann...
Source: COVID-19 Protection  May 01, 2020  5 years ago
COVID-19 Prevention: With protective mask shortages on the increase especially since Western countries like America and Europe that once scoffed at the idea of wearing mask and paid a price with the number of deaths and infected, now realizing the costly mistakes and adopting the practice, there are other alternative peripherals that people can also look towards to.   Once such option to pr...
Source: COVID-19 Drugs  Apr 30, 2020  5 years ago
COVID-19 Drugs: A study released by medical and drug researchers from the  Laboratory of Vector-Borne Viral Diseases and Center for Biologics Evaluation, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Maryland, has concluded that most of the antivirals used as experimental drugs in the last four months basically had no effect on treating COVID-19. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.29.067983...
Source: United States COVID-19 Crisis  Apr 30, 2020  5 years ago
US COVID-19 Crisis: Americans are suffering the most compared to other countries not only economically from the lockdowns but more so from the way the whole COVID-19 crisis has been managed from day one. It is also a reflection of how bad the whole healthcare system had actually been even prior to the COVID-19 crisis.   First there were claims by those in power that the COVID-19 was even mi...
Source: COVID-19 Supplements  Apr 30, 2020  5 years ago
COVID-19 Supplements: Medical researchers from the University Of Surrey have identified a correlation between dietary Selenium levels in the body and recovery or death rates of those with the COVID-19 disease in China.   The study findings are published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ajcn/nqaa095/5826147 Though selen...
Source: COVID-19 Medical Supplies  Apr 29, 2020  5 years ago
COVID-19 Medical Supplies: From around the world, countries, health authorities and doctors are complaining about overpriced substandard COVID-19 diagnostic test kits from China for both PCR-NAT protocols and also for COVID-19 antibody test kits. Reports are emerging that most of this test kits are faulty and for others totally unreliable.   On Monday 27th April, the national Indian Council...
Source: COVID-19 Drug Research  Apr 29, 2020  5 years ago
COVID-19 Drug Research: The media was abuzz recently with news about the results of a clinical trial by the Paris university hospital trust (AP-HP) with regards to the arthritis drug Tocilizumab that is controlled by Pharma giant Roche, claiming that it showed early promise in preventing extreme inflammation in gravely ill COVID-19. However links to the published study were not accessible. https:/...
Source: COVID-19 Symptoms  Apr 29, 2020  5 years ago
COVID-19 Symptoms: In mild COVID-19 cases, typical symptoms are normally sore throats, dry cough and mild fever while in moderate cases persistent fever and shortness of breath are common.   However physicians are warning that in elderly adults with COVID-19, such typical symptoms might not materialize but instead a variety of anomalous symptoms are observed and this could complicate effort...
Source: COVID-19 Warnings  Apr 28, 2020  5 years ago
COVID-19 Warning: As of 1830 hours, Tuesday, (Bangkok) the total number of so called patients who have 'recovered' from COVID-19 stands at 931 838 individuals or almost a million. However the true number is probably far higher than that.   Collated data on recoveries is less precise than case counts and death tolls, and many counties, states and regions do not report how many of the...
Source: COVID-19 Warning  Apr 28, 2020  5 years ago
COVID-19 Warning: British pediatrics are warning about the emergence of rising numbers of cases of children becoming ill with a rare medical condition exhibiting symptoms of abdominal pain, gastrointestinal symptoms and cardiac inflammation.  Credit: CCO Public Domain The National Health Service England and the Pediatric Intensive Care Society UK and has issued an "urgent medical aler...
Source: COVID-19 Updates  Apr 28, 2020  5 years ago
COVID-19 Updates: Medical researchers from the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health have found based on meta-analysis of reports and data of COVID-19 patients from Italy and China, as well as data from the H1N1 influenza pandemic, that obesity is likely a pre-existing condition that can exacerbate COVID-19.   Dr Carlos Santos-Burgoa, Professor of Global Heal...
Source: COVID-19 Tips  Apr 27, 2020  5 years ago
COVID-19 Tips: Many individuals around the world complaining that they are being turned away from public healthcare hospitals and even being denied the COVID-19 test. Despites governments everywhere claiming that there are enough test kits and that they encourage testing, the reality is far from that.   In some countries when patients insist that they suspect might have contracted the COVID...
Source: COVID-19 News  Apr 27, 2020  5 years ago
COVID-19 News: Politicians and government officials with no medical or science training are trying to use medical and research platforms in the wrong way to formulate public policies to further their own personal and party agendas.   To date the whole COVID-19 crisis has been mismanaged by governments and also health authorities developing policies and guidelines.(Forget WHO…it is no...
Source: COVID-19 Tips  Apr 27, 2020  5 years ago
COVID-19 Tips: More medical and scientific studies are emerging that supplements containing vitamins C and D and other micronutrients, sometimes in amounts exceeding the federally recommended levels, are a safe, effective and low-cost means of helping your immune system fight off COVID-19 and other acute respiratory tract diseases.   Researchers from Oregon State University recently publish...
Source: COVID-19 News  Apr 26, 2020  5 years ago
COVID-19 News: Media reports are breaking all over the Netherlands of cases of Human to Animal transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. https://nos.nl/artikel/2331784-coronavirus-vastgesteld-bij-nertsenfokkerijen-in-noord-brabant.html   Two separate mink farms reported cases of their animals developing breathing and gastrointestinal issues and veterinary experts decided to inform the autho...
Source: Thailand Medical News  Apr 26, 2020  5 years ago
COVID-19 USA: The way that CNN and certain media projected President Trump comments about trying to explore new ways to find a way to treat COVID-19 initially even shocked us at Thailand Medical News and made us angry but then as we started to review the footages more and more, we realized that maybe we were all simply reacting to the way that the media is trying to project him and also the rest o...
Source: COVID-19 Research  Apr 26, 2020  5 years ago
 A new study by Russian medical researchers suggests that deficiency of endogenous glutathione could also be another influencing factor of the degree of susceptibility by individuals towards the SARS-CoV-coronavirus that causes the deadly COVID-19 disease. The research lead by Dr Alexey V Polonikov , a Professor from Department of Biology and Medical Genetics of Kursk State Medical Univers...
Source: COVID-19 News  Apr 26, 2020  5 years ago
COVID-19 News: A new study by researchers from the University Of California, San Francisco indicate that the prostate glands has a high expression of ACE-2 receptors and also TMPRSS2 receptors which are the key targets of the SARS-Cov-2 coronavirus and that the gland has a high susceptibility of being targeted by the novel coronavirus and could also be another factor that accounts for the higher p...
Source: COVID-19 Editorial  Apr 25, 2020  5 years ago
COVID-19 Editorial : I might sound politically incorrect,  but maybe the COVID-19 pandemic is call for man-kind to straighten out priorities. Perhaps humans really need to wake up and start facing a lot of realities. Of course, I am saddened and sympathize with those that have lost their loved ones and those who are suffering economic hardships. I, too, was infected with the disease and...
Source: COVID-19 Drugs  Apr 25, 2020  5 years ago
COVID-19 Drugs: The US FDA finally on Friday warned doctors against prescribing a malaria drug touted by President Donald Trump for treating COVID-19.   A medical alert sent by the regulators flagged reports of sometimes fatal heart side effects among coronavirus patients taking hydroxychloroquine or the related drug chloroquine. The decades-old drugs, also prescribed fo...
Source: COVID-19 News  Apr 24, 2020  5 years ago
We at Thailand Medical News are in a state of shock. We totally sympathize with all Americans and will be publishing certain treatment protocols that have been backed by scientific studies for all to share this weekend but please do not attempt any treatments by yourself or let any doctors to offer you any of these treatments that were talked about by the President such as injecting disinfectants ...
Source: USA Covid-10 News  Apr 24, 2020  5 years ago
USA COVID-19 News: US Officials who are famous for spreading fake news and misinformation online such as the COVID-19 disease is just like common cold or that it is not air-borne or that Chloroquine or Hydroxychloroquine can treat and cure COVID-19 disease have now come up with new announcement that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is rapidly destroyed by sunlight. The announcement was made by a senior ...
Source: COVID-19 Clinical Care  Apr 24, 2020  5 years ago
COVID-19 Clinical Care: According to research findings outlined in a letter published in the Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology, certain COVID-19 patients might show manifestations of skin conditions and eruptions. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jdv.16387   With a sudden rise of reports of patients presenting with skin conditions, including...
Source: COVID-19 Drugs  Apr 24, 2020  5 years ago
COVID-19 Drugs: Media reports are emerging everywhere that not only has Gilead’s Remidesivir Clinical Trial in China failed but also there could be the possibility of a cover-up and future data being manipulated as a result of the Giant Pharma company’s extensive financial resources.   Reports are emerging that the experimental antiviral drug Remdesivir has failed in its first r...
Source: COVID-19 Research  Apr 23, 2020  5 years ago
COVID-19 research: According to medical researchers from University of Utah Health, US  and Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan-China, COVID-19 is unlikely to be spread through semen.   The researchers found no evidence of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that causes the deadly COVID-19 in the semen or testes of the Chinese men who participated in the study.   The resea...
Source: COVID-19 Pneumonia Drugs  Apr 23, 2020  5 years ago
COVID-19 Pneumonia Drugs: Colchicine, an oral anti-inflammatory that has long been prescribed for gout, a form of arthritis with a long history dating back thousands of years is being studied as a possible treatment protocol for COVID-19. Besides treating gout, the drug that is made from phytochemicals of the autumn crocus flower has also been used by medical experts to treat pericarditis, a con...
Source: COVID-19 Crisis  Apr 23, 2020  5 years ago
COVID-19 Crisis -EDITORIAL: As of Thursday (23rd April, 0800 hours Bangkok), there are more than to 2.6 million confirmed infected with the COVID-19 disease while another 184,220 people have died from the disease. So far about 23 million people globally have been tested for the COVID-19 disease.   By the end of the April, we should record about 200,000 deaths over the 4 month period si...
Source: COVID-19 Research  Apr 23, 2020  5 years ago
COVID-19 Research: To date the SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus’s ability to mutate has been vastly underestimated even the slightest mutations has been taken lightly without realizing how these tiny changes are affecting the potency, characteristics and properties of the emerging strain and how these mutations affect their deadliness. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.14.20060160v1.full...
Source: COVID-19 Research  Apr 23, 2020  5 years ago
COVID-19 Research: A new study paper by Dr Adam M. Brufsky from the University Of Pittsburg School Of Medicine that has been published in the Journal of Medical Virology proposes that blood glucose can indirectly influence the level of severity in a patient infected with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that causes the deadly COVID-19 disease.   https://doi.org/10.1002/jmv.25887   Now medica...
Source: COVID-19 Research  Apr 22, 2020  5 years ago
COVID-19 Research: Swiss medical researchers from University Hospital Zurich have discovered that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus basically attacks the endothelial cells lining the blood vessels, causing sepsis and multiple organ failure in critically  ill COVID-19 patients. The study is published in the Lancet journal. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30937-5/ful...
Source: COVID-19 Tips  Apr 22, 2020  5 years ago
COVID-19 Tips: With almost 60 per cent of the world population having to wear mask now due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many like myself who wear spectacles or eye glasses have to navigate around the supermarkets, pharmacies or the pavements while dealing with fogged up glasses.   Individuals with glasses have learned the hard way during the coronavirus pandemic that wearing a face m...
Source: COVID-19 Global News  Apr 22, 2020  5 years ago
COVID-19 Global News: According to the New York Times, at least 25,000 more people have died during the coronavirus pandemic over the last month than the official Covid-19 death counts report, a review of mortality data in 11 countries shows, providing a clearer, if still incomplete, picture of the toll of the crisis. Dead bodies being hurriedly 'disposed' off in Iran by authorities in t...
Source: COVID-19 Clinical Care  Apr 22, 2020  5 years ago
COVID-19 Clinical Care: According to medical researchers from Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, the presence of minute blood clots could be causing more severity to the conditions of moderate and critical COVID-19 patients. https://www.mountsinai.org/about/newsroom/2020/mount-sinai-study-finds-covid19-may-be-driven-by-pulmonary-thrombi-and-pulmonary-endothelial-dysfunction-pr   The S...
Source: COVID-19 Ventilators  Apr 21, 2020  5 years ago
COVID-19 Ventilators: Initially created by a robot scientist and a neurosurgeon to help India's poor, a toaster-sized ventilator is offering hope in the world's fight against the COVID-19 pandemic and demand is booming. The affordable High Specs Indian AgVa Ventilator   The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus at its most lethal attacks the lungs and in most cases it is the immunity’s own&r...
Source: COVID-19 Warnings  Apr 21, 2020  5 years ago
COVID-19 Warnings: When, the COVID-19 crisis first broke out in China and subsequently in other parts of Asia, protective face mask and hand sanitizers became sought after commodities, creating an acute shortage and prices to escalate coupled with creating a nightmare for various governments. Then as the COVID-19 pandemic progressed, health authorities and doctors realized that ventilators and ...
Source: COVID-19 Drug Research  Apr 21, 2020  5 years ago
COVID-19 Drug Research: A recent randomized, controlled study on the safety and efficacy of either lopinavir/ritonavir (LPV/r) or Arbidol, both antivirals that are used in some countries against HIV-1 and to treat influenza and respectively as treatments for COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, suggests that neither drug improves the clinical outcome of patients hospit...
Source: COVID-19 Breakthrough  Apr 20, 2020  5 years ago
COVID-19 Breakthrough: According to a study by genomic and medical researchers at Scripps Research, an antibody recovered from a survivor of the SARS epidemic in 2003s has revealed a potential vulnerability of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. The  antibody called CR3022, produced by a patient in response to the coronavirus that causes SARS, also binds to the new coronavirus that causes COVID-19....
Source: COVID-19 Research  Apr 20, 2020  5 years ago
COVID-19 Research: Medical researchers from Oregon Health And Science University, Portland, and the Portland VA Research Foundation have discovered that genetic variability in the human immune system may affect susceptibility to, and severity of infection by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus responsible for the deadly Covid-19 disease.   The research is...
Source: COVID-19 Drugs  Apr 20, 2020  5 years ago
COVID-19 Drugs: Favipiravir or Avigan the flu drug that was developed by Toyama Chemicals in Japan that has since been acquired by Fuji Films Pharmaceuticals has been touted by many countries as an experimental drug for treating COVID-19 despite weak studies supporting its efficacy. It was brought to media attention by China advocating its use in one of its national health guidelines based on r...
Source: COVID-19 News  Apr 20, 2020  5 years ago
COVID-19 News: According to a recent research report from the University of Göttingen. In Germany, the number of confirmed cases for the novel coronavirus disease COVID-19 officially issued by countries and widely reported by national and international media outlets dramatically understates the true number of infections. https://reason.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Bommer-Vollmer-2020-COVID-...
Source: COVID-19 World News  Apr 19, 2020  5 years ago
COVID-19 World News: The Australian government on today (19th April) called for an independent investigation into the global response to the coronavirus pandemic, including the WHO or World Health Organization’s handling of the crisis. Marise Payne, the Australian Foreign Minister said the country would "insist" on a review that would probe, in part, China's early response to t...
Source: COVID-19 Drug Research  Apr 19, 2020  5 years ago
COVID-19 Drug Research: A new meta-analysis collaborative study by medical researchers from the University of San Diego and  Yantai Yuhuangding Hospital in Shandong and also Shengjing Hospital in Shenyang, both in China, has confirmed that both Chloroquine and Hydroxychloroquine are both not effective for treating the COVID-19 disease and in fact caused a variety of adverse events in most pat...
Source: COVID-19 Studies  Apr 19, 2020  5 years ago
COVID-19 Studies: Shanghai researchers are warning that a lot of recovered patients showed no signs of possessing the neutralising proteins or antibodies while majority had extremely low counts.   These could have major implications for vaccine development and herd immunity.   The researchers also warned that recovered patients also possessed a higher risk of reinfections.   The t...
Source: COVID-19 Protection  Apr 19, 2020  5 years ago
COVID-19 Protection: N95 mask or respirators can be harmful to certain individuals with breathing problems and heart issues and also long term usage of these mask can also lead to serious medical conditions. (ATTENTION: PLEASE DO NOT QUOTE THIS ARTICLE OUT OF CONTEXT! IT IS IMPORTANT FOR ALL TO WEAR A PROTECTIVE MASK TO HELP STOP THE SPREAD THE COVID-19 DISEASE WHILE OFFERING PROTECTION TO ALL US...
Source: COVID-19 Drugs  Apr 19, 2020  5 years ago
COVID-19 Drugs: According to sources, a French research entity is planning  to start a clinical trial on Ivermectin to treat COVID-19 disease soon. A lot of medical professionals are now coming out in support of using Ivermectin as a experimental drug while the many clinical trials are underway may pave the path for its official repurposing as a COVID-19 drug.     The interest sta...
Source: COVID-19 Clinical Research  Apr 18, 2020  5 years ago
COVID-19 Clinical Research: A collaborative group of eleven international medical research organizations is investigating whether overactive immune cells that produce Neutrophil Extracellular Traps (NETs) cause the most severe cases. The consortium, called the NETwork, includes Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, and the Research Institute of the McGill Un...
Source: COVID-19 Drugs  Apr 18, 2020  5 years ago
COVID-19 Drugs: An abstract study submitted by researchers from University Of Utah, Harvard Medical School and Surgisphere Corporation showed that COVID-19 patients who were critically ill with lung injury needing mechanical ventilation, benefitted from taking Ivermectin compared to other drug alternatives. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3570270   The study lead by Dr A...

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