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Source: Medical News - Blood Clots -SARS-CoV-2  Sep 21, 2022  2 years ago
A British new study by researchers from the University of Bristol,  University of Cambridge, Swansea University, National Health Service Digital- Leeds, University College London, King’s College London, Glasgow Caledonian University, University of Leicester, University of Edinburgh and the British Heart Foundation Data Science Centre has found that blood cl...
Source: Medical News - Start Of Fall 2022  Sep 21, 2022  2 years ago
Tomorrow, the 22nd Of September marks the official start of Fall or Autumn in the Northern hemisphere and the SARS-CoV-2 virus is helping mankind ‘commemorate’ the start the cool season not only be debuting a variety of Omicron sub-variants and their sub-lineages, but has already officially started the new surges in countries like France, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Russia, Taiw...
Source: Medical News - SARS-CoV-2 - Idiopathic Hypereosinophilic Syndrome  Sep 20, 2022  2 years ago
Physicians from the Department of General Internal Medicine, Asahikawa City Hospital, Hokkaido-Japan are warning that even asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infections can trigger acute exacerbation of idiopathic hypereosinophilic syndrome. Palpable erythema, without pruritic or painful sensation, was present on the whole backof the reported patient in a reticulated pattern, colored light brown to light r...
Source: Medical News - SARS-CoV-2 - Placenta  Sep 20, 2022  2 years ago
A new study by researchers from Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine, Washington State University-USA, the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Washington-USA and the Department of Women and Newborn Research, Intermountain Health Care-Utah-USA has found that SARS-CoV-2 infections impairs the antiviral innate immune gene expression in the human placenta! This places pregnant women w...
Source: Medical News - COVID-19 Excess Deaths  Sep 19, 2022  2 years ago
A new startling report issued by the Ministry of health in Singapore has shown that nearly three in five or 60% of all "excess deaths" in Singapore during the COVID-19 pandemic was directly caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, and the remainder were patients who had died of other illnesses within 90 days of being infected with the same SARS-CoV-2 virus!   The report was relea...
Source: Medical News -SARS-CoV-2 Sub-lineages BU, BQ, BW  Sep 19, 2022  2 years ago
A leading researcher from University of Missouri-School of Medicine-USA who has been involved in wastewater surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 variants for the last two years predicts that the newly emerging BU and BQ variants are most likely to be the next concerning SARS-CoV-2 variants in the next waves after the various BA.2.75 sub-lineages that are expected to dominate this fall and early winter. &n...
Source: Medical News - Biden-Alzheimer's Disease  Sep 19, 2022  2 years ago
Its hilarious that in the last few hours, Biden had announced during a interview on CBS network’s Sixty Minutes that the COVID-19 pandemic is over! https://twitter.com/60Minutes/status/1571652540592050176   Americans are really going heading for a mess in the coming fall and winter season.   Already despite attempts by the Biden administration to conceal the real COVID-19 situati...
Source: Taiwan COVID-19 News   Sep 18, 2022  2 years ago
A strange phenomenon is being observed in Taiwan that is getting scientist around the world baffled. A new surge barely a couple of weeks from the last is getting daily COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations up. But what is strange about this new surge is that physicians are seeing many that were infected weeks ago getting re-infected again and what adds more to the confusion is that it’s ...
Source: Japan COVID-19 News  Sep 18, 2022  2 years ago
On the Friday 16th of September, Japan recorded another 173 COVID-19 Deaths and 75,902 new COVID-19 infections despite low testing rates.   The country Japan confirmed 70,975 cases of the coronavirus infection on Saturday with another 138 deaths. Tokyo alone reported 8,018 new cases of COVID-19 on Saturday and ten deaths.   Since the 1st of August 2022 to till the 16th of September, th...
Source: U.S. COVID-19 News  Sep 17, 2022  2 years ago
U.S. COVID-19 News: Despite attempts by the Biden administration to conceal the actual COVID-19 scenario in the United States, the degree of severity and mortality the new BA.4.6 variant and also the various BA.5 sub-lineages is causing, prevents the degree of seriousness the country is going to be in this coming fall and winter from being not reported. https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/raj.r...
Source: Medical News - Long COVID - Lung Impairment  Sep 16, 2022  2 years ago
It is becoming more apparent with mounting study findings that hundreds of thousands of individuals globally are literally walking around without even being aware that their lungs are deteriorating as a result of having been exposed to the SARS-CoV-2 virus!   A new study by researchers from the COVID-FIBROTIC study team in Spain has found that irrespective of severity, about 40% of Post...
Source: Medical News-COVID-19 News  Sep 15, 2022  2 years ago
It is amazing that Tedros Ghebreyesus is still heading the WHO as its director general after the way that the start of the COVID-19 pandemic was so badly handled and that he and the rest of the primates at the WHO literally allowed the SARS-CoV-2 virus to spread globally with their reluctance to initiate border controls, travel restriction, lockdowns and their denial that the SARS-CoV-2 ...
Source: Medical News - Japan - COVID-19 Deaths  Sep 14, 2022  2 years ago
There are more speculations emerging that the ‘big forces’ controlling the COVID-19 narratives are influencing governments and authorities around the world to conceal the real facts about the current COVID-19 crisis and instead create an illusion that COVID-19 is nothing to be worried about and the masses should simply return to pre-pandemic economic activity and lifestyles.   T...
Source: Medical News - SARS-CoV-2 -Kidney Failure  Sep 14, 2022  2 years ago
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic is slowly evolving into an endemic of a silent killer disease as a result of governments and even health authorities trying to downplay the seriousness of the COVID-19 and are even concealing daily infections rates, death rates and now even excess death rates.   The ignorant masses are being led to assume that COVID-19 is now just a mild infection similar to contract...
Source: Medical News - SARS-CoV-2 And Saline Nasal Irrigation  Sep 13, 2022  2 years ago
Its interesting to note that when Chinese scientists in early 2020 suggested that rising ones mouth and nasal cavities with saline solution could help prevent COVID-19 severity as a result of reducing viral loads and viral reservoirs in these regions which are the preferred gateways of the novel coronavirus into the human host, many ‘bastard’ journalist and charlatan ‘fact checke...
Source: Medical News - New Omicron Sub-Variants  Sep 13, 2022  2 years ago
Urgent investigations and research are warranted with regards to the variants circulating in Europe at the moment and whether there is any change in tropism and pathogenesis as there has been a rise of brain and liver related issues in many of the newly infected COVID-19 individuals.   Physicians and health authorities are concerned about new symptoms and conditions arising in newly infecte...
Source: Medical News -SARS-CoV-2-An Oncogenic Virus  Sep 12, 2022  2 years ago
Alarmingly more and more studies are emerging that are indicating SARS-CoV-2 infections will ultimately lead to the development of various cancers through a variety of mechanisms.   Thailand Medical News had already covered an article that also includes links to existing studies that shows the various discovered mechanisms. https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/breaking-study-finds-that-can...
Source: Medical News - BA.4.6, BA.4.7, BA.5.7  Sep 12, 2022  2 years ago
Researchers from Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York-USA and the from the School of Medicine-National Taiwan University-Taiwan have found that the new Omicron variants like BA.4.6, BA.4.7 and BA.5.7 are even more immune evasive than the BA.5 variant and that even the monoclonal combination known as Evusheld is ineffective.   Evushed is a combination of t...
Source: Medical News - BA.2.3.7 with K973 Spike Mutation  Sep 09, 2022  2 years ago
An alarming report involving documented case studies and viral genome analysis by doctors, pediatrics and researchers from a  tertiary medical center in Taiwan ie the Tri-Service General Hospital which is part of the National Defense Medical Center has found that a newly emerged SARS-CoV-2 Omicron sub-variant of the BA.2.3.7 sub-lineage is causing critical neurological illness among children ...
Source: Medical News - SARS-CoV-2 Mpro Cleaves Human Proteins  Sep 09, 2022  2 years ago
A new study led by researchers from the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory at Stanford University and the National Virtual Biotechnology Laboratory at the US Department of Energy-Washington has found the SARS-CoV-2 main protease Mpro also called 3CLpro (3-chymotrypsin like protease ) is able to cleave a key human immune signaling protein called NEMO (NF-κB Essential Modulator) in the ...
Source: Medical News - SARS-CoV-2 Variants  Sep 09, 2022  2 years ago
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted many times over how researchers and scientists with their ‘dinosaur’ mentality and belonging to the traditional old school of thoughts have been misleading the world with their stupid ‘expertise.’   The whole approach and methods deployed to dealing with this SARS-CoV-2 crisis has been wrong from day one.   We first had COVI...
Source: COVID-19 Supplements - Medical News  Sep 08, 2022  2 years ago
COVID-19 Supplements: A new meta-analysis study by researchers from the Department of Clinical Nutrition, School of Nutrition and Food Science, Food Security Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences-Iran involving various relevant published studies from around the world has shown that antioxidant supplements like Vitamin C, Vitamin D, Selenium and Zinc does help with COVID-19 c...
Source- Medical News - COVID-19 Research - Impaired Pain Modulation  Sep 08, 2022  2 years ago
A new study by American researchers from the University of Florida and the University of Oklahoma has found that symptomatic COVID-19 infections lead to impaired pain modulation in young adults!   According to the research team in their study abstract, “Pain is a common symptom reported in COVID-19 patients. Impaired endogenous pain-modulatory mechanisms such as conditioned pain modul...
Source: UK COVID-19 News  Sep 08, 2022  2 years ago
UK COVID-19 News: While the British health and government authorities are downplaying the extent of the health crisis in the United Kingdom and even concealing critical date pertaining to infection rates, death rates and excess death rates, the Zoe app monitoring platform has shown that there were 114,914 new symptomatic infections in the last 24 hours.! https://health-study.joinzoe.com/data#inter...
Source: Medical News -Argentina's Mysterious Pneumonia Outbreak  Sep 08, 2022  2 years ago
As of the last few hours, a total of 8 individuals have died and 23 more hospitalized as a result of the mysterious fatal bilateral pneumonia disease outbreak that originated sometime around the 16th of August 2022. https://jornadaonline.com/salud/confirmaron-que-mendoza-se-prepara-para-un-posible-brote-de-legionella-20229715500 (Note although that Argentinian media claims that only 22 have been h...
Source: Medical News - BA.2.75.2  Sep 07, 2022  2 years ago
Unknown to many who are assuming that the COVD-19 crisis is dying down and will become a mild-like flu endemic, the newer Omicron variants like the BA.2, BA.4 and BA.5 have given rise to newer subvariants that are evolving extremely rapidly as these viruses find ways to not only evade all immunity conferred by the natural infections or even by jab induced antibodies or the various monoclonal and p...
Source: Medical News - Vitronectin - Macular Degeneration  Sep 07, 2022  2 years ago
Researchers from the independent biomedical research institute located in California called Sanford Burnham Prebys have identified the mechanism by which the blood protein called Vitronectin causes macular degeneration.   Macular degeneration is as common eye disorder among people over 50. It causes blurred or reduced central vision and many normally end up being blinded. It is estimated th...
Source: Medical News - Cancers  Sep 07, 2022  2 years ago
Harvard Researchers Warn That Incidences Of Various Cancers In Young Adults Under the Age Of 50 Is Rising Globally!   A new study conducted by researchers from Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Massachusetts General Hospital and Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard has found that the incidences of various cancers among ...
Source: Medical News - Vitamin B9-Folic Acid And COVID-19 Risks  Sep 07, 2022  2 years ago
A new study by researchers from the University of Otago-New Zealand, University of California, Davis-USA, The University of Alabama at Birmingham-USA, University of Queensland-Australia and the Birmingham VA Medical Center- has found high doses of Vitamin B9 or folic acid were associated with increased COVID-19 risk. According to the study team, folic acid, a B vitamin that's used widely to f...
Source: Medical News -NSAIDs-Heart Failure  Sep 07, 2022  2 years ago
A new study by Danish researchers the Copenhagen University Hospital in Denmark has found that the usages of common NSAIDs (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs) like Ibuprofen and Diclofenac by diabetics were linked to a higher risk of heart failure.   The study findings were presented during the recent European Society of Cardiology annual congress or ESC Congress 2022 and will be publis...
Source: Medical News - New Novel Polyomavirus  Sep 06, 2022  2 years ago
Interestingly, researchers from the infamous Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), (The centre of the various controversial hypotheses on the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus) have discovered a novel DNA virus found in small mammals like Lemniscomys species ie a type of grass mice or zebra mice that are mostly found in the African continent besides certain European and middle-eastern countries. &nbs...
Source: Medical News -Tomato Flu  Sep 06, 2022  2 years ago
Unscrupulous Indian reporters and media first started creating a story about an outbreak of a mysterious disease among children as early as June 2022 that they labelled as “Tomato Flu” when in reality it was nothing more than ordinary hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) disease, a viral infection that afflicts children. Pictures like this was used to sensationalize the 'Tomato Fl...
Source: Medical News - Stevia, Saccharin And Sucralose  Sep 06, 2022  2 years ago
A new study led by Dr Kathleen A. Page, a Professor at the Division of Endocrinology, Department of Internal Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California,-Los Angeles, has found that using artificial sweeteners like stevia, saccharin and sucralose can also cause glycemic response impairment via the gut microbiome and also cause more long term health issues.   N...
Source: Medical News - Fatal Pneumonia Outbreak  Sep 06, 2022  2 years ago
The mysterious fatal pneumonia disease outbreak that first claimed the life a  doctor that was suspected of treating patient zero (A 70 year old women who was the third person to die from the disease ) and infected numerous other patients and healthcare workers at the Eva Peron hospital in Tucuman, Argentina is now spreading rapidly and according to an Argentinian media report has now caused ...
Source: Medical News - New Measles Strain  Sep 05, 2022  2 years ago
While the world has been more engrossed in COVID-19, monkeypox, booster vaccines, the Ukraine-Russia war and the downfall of cryptocurrencies, no attention has been focused nor any aid and medical assistance been offered to the health authorities, physicians and hospitals in Zimbabwe that are facing an outbreak of a new deadly strain of measles that is causing the deaths of children at an exponent...
Source: Medical News-SARS-CoV-2-Skin  Sep 05, 2022  2 years ago
Italian researchers from the University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, University of Turin, the FPO-IRCCS Candiolo Cancer Institute and the Pathology Unit at Fondazione IRCCS Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza in new study have found that the SARS-CoV-2 virus could possibly penetrate the skin through the eccrine sweat glands!   The current ongoing SARS-CoV-2 crisis has disrupted global health...
Source: Medical Devices - Non-Invasive Continuous Glucose Monitor  Sep 05, 2022  2 years ago
Medical Devices: GlucoRx Ltd, a medical technology company based in Surrey, United Kingdom that specializes in home use glucose monitoring devices for diabetics along with Cardiff University are on schedule to launch the world’s first truly non-invasive continuous glucose monitor in Europe by early 2023. The product will then be launched in the Asia-Pacific region by mid-2023 and subsequentl...
Source: Drug News - GLP-1 Receptor Agonists Drugs  Sep 05, 2022  2 years ago
Drug News: Medical researchers from the U.S FDA have discovered that diabetics taking glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists drugs like exenatide, dulaglutide, semaglutide and lixisenatide have a higher risk of developing acute cholecystitis and even higher risk of death!   The study team conducted a detailed meta-analysis from data of the of U.S FDA's reporting system for ad...
Source: Medical News - Anti-Aging Supplements - Taurine  Sep 04, 2022  2 years ago
Anti-aging Supplements: A new randomized clinical trial study by researchers from the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Araraquara at the State University of Sao Paulo – FCF UNESP-Brazil and the University of Sao Paulo Ribeirao Preto Medical School-Brazil has found that the amino acid taurine can be used in anti-aging therapies.   The clinical trial found that taurine supplementati...
Source: Medical News -SARS-CoV-2 Spike Proteins Destroys Intestinal Cells.  Sep 04, 2022  2 years ago
Data from a new study by researchers from Shenzhen Baoan Second People's Hospital in China has alarmingly validated that not only does the spike proteins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus damage lung cells but they also damage and destroy the intestinal cells as well!   The study findings  clearly showed that the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein damaged human small intestinal mucosa epithelial cells...
Source: Medical News - Long COVID Research  Sep 04, 2022  2 years ago
Long COVID Research: Alarming study findings from a new research conducted by medical scientist from the Hospital Regional de Alta Especialidad in Mexico has found that almost a third of Post-COVID patients who initially only developed mild symptoms upon infection displayed impaired lung function!   To date, only a few studies have assessed lung function in Hispanic subjects recovering from...
Source: Medical News - Argentina Mysterious Fatal Pneumonia Disease  Sep 04, 2022  2 years ago
Doctors and other healthcare workers at the Eva Peron hospital in Tucuman where the initial outbreak of a mysterious fatal pneumonia-related disease emerged are threatening a walk-out and strike as they believe that the country’s politicians are attempting to cover up the seriousness of the outbreak while putting the risk of millions at risk.   Most of the infected so far have been he...
Source: Medical News - Genes - COVID-19 Severity  Sep 03, 2022  2 years ago
A new study led by researchers from Berlin Institute of Health (BIH) at Charité-Universitäts-medizin-Germany has found that eight human proteins and genes paly a very critical role in the determination of COVID-19 outcomes in individuals with the ELF5 gene being the most important.   The other proteins and genes include OAS1, HSP40, RAB2A, NUDT5, CSF3, SFTPD and ABO.   The ...
Source: Medical News - Long COVID Diagnostics  Sep 02, 2022  2 years ago
Long COVID Diagnostics: IncellDx, a company based in California-USA specializing in a precision medicine and an array of advanced novel diagnostics and prognostics for the treatment of various infectious disease and cancer is officially launching the world’s first diagnostic test for Long COVID in Europe this month after securing the CE-IVD marking in Europe.   The company’s uti...
Source: Medical News - Argentina Fatal Bilateral Pneumonia Outbreak  Sep 02, 2022  2 years ago
While health authorities in Argentina along with WHO officials and also medical researchers are still trying to figure out the causative agent for the outbreak of a new mysterious fatal pneumonia disease in Tucuman-Argentina, caseloads are increasing and another death has also been reported in the last 24 hours since Thailand Medical News had broke the story online in English about the new outbrea...
Source: Medical News - Novel Zoonotic Avian Influenza Virus A(H3N8)  Sep 01, 2022  2 years ago
Researchers from the University of Hong Kong are warning that a current outbreak of a new zoonotic avian influenza virus among poultry and other birds in China and Hong Kong could lead to a serious human pandemic if surveillance and measures are not put into place soon.   Zoonotic and pandemic influenza continue to pose threats to global public health.   Typically, pandemics arise when...
Source: Medical News -   Sep 01, 2022  2 years ago
Health authorities in Argentina have announced the discovery of a new fatal respiratory disease that causes bilateral pneumonia in the province of Tucuman. To date, six people have been found to be infected with the new disease since the last 15 days. Two have already died while three are in ICU wards requiring ventilators while the fourth, a healthcare worker with moderate symptoms is currently u...
Source: Medical News - SARS-CoV-2 Origins  Aug 31, 2022  2 years ago
SARS-CoV-2 Origins: A new study led by researchers from the University of Milan-Italy and the Institute for Genomics and Evolutionary Medicine at Temple University-Philadelphia-USA has found evidence of SARS-CoV-2 in clinical samples in Italy dated as early as September 2019!   The study team was evaluating the association between SARS-CoV-2 infection and measles-like syndromes in Lombardy ...
Source: Medical News -Antigenic Interference And COVID-19 Severity  Aug 30, 2022  2 years ago
During the early part of the COVID-19 pandemic, we were feed with dubious study findings by non-credible researchers that made fake claims that previous influenza infections and even other respiratory infections could offer a certain degree of protection against the SARS-CoV-2 virus and prevent disease severity.   Findings from a new study by medical researchers from the University of Calif...
Source: Medical News - COVID-19 News  Aug 30, 2022  2 years ago
While Hong Kong is facing yet another COVID-19 surge caused by a variety of new SARS-CoV-2 variants, physicians and pediatric specialist are concerned as they are witnessing new clinical symptoms in children infected with COVID-19.   Besides hoarseness seen in most infected children, a growing number of children especially the younger ones of ages between 1 to 8 are also developing inspirat...
Source: Medical News - COVID-19 Supplements - Vitamin B3(Niacin)  Aug 29, 2022  2 years ago
COVID-19 Supplements: Indian researchers from the city of Bangalore (Bengaluru) in Karnataka-India have found in a new study that niacinamide or Vitamin B3 (niacin) can be used to enhance a natural occurring antiviral in humans called cathelicidin (LL37) to destroy the membrane of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, thus inhibiting its replication.   The study team comprised of medical scientist from the...
Source; Medical News - NeuroCOVID  Aug 28, 2022  2 years ago
NeuroCOVID: A study led by researchers from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke - U.S. National Institutes of Health and the U.S. Army’s Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and The Joint Pathology Center at the Defense Health Agency in Maryland have found that SARS-CoV-2 infections causes serious damage to the microvessels of the brain.   To da...
Source: Medical News - Henoch-Schönlein Purpura-(HSP) Disease And COVID-19  Aug 27, 2022  2 years ago
Researchers from the Medical University of Silesia in Poland have found further proof that SARS-CoV-2 infections can trigger Henoch-Schönlein Purpura-(HSP) disease also known currently as IgA-associated vasculitis (IgAV)!   Henoch-Schönlein purpura (HSP) disease is a condition that involves swelling (inflammation) of small blood vessels. The swollen blood vessels leak into the ski...
Source: Medical News - SARS-CoV-2 Incubation  Aug 26, 2022  2 years ago
A new study by researchers from Peking University-China and Tsinghua University-China has found that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is evolving to make humans sick faster as the incubation periods are getting shorter especially with the newer emerging variants.   The incubation period is the time elapsed between exposure to a pathogenic organism and when symptoms and signs are first apparent. &n...
Source: Medical News - Apple Cider Vinegar - COVID-19  Aug 25, 2022  2 years ago
Medical researchers from Khwarizmi Institute of Science and Technology-Iran have in a new study involving mice found that apple cider vinegar could be used to treat COVID-19 and also to reduce associated inflammatory responses in COVID-19 especially in the lungs.   The study team used a local Iranian apple cider vinegar called D.SAP in the successful animal study and next planning a randomi...

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