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NeuroCOVID: A new study by researchers from the Institute for Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, Center of Brain, Behavior and Metabolism (CBBM), University of Lübeck, Lübeck-Germany has alarmingly found that the SARS-CoV-2 main protease mpro causes microvascular brain pathology cleaving NEMO (The essential modulator of nuclear factor-κB) in brain endotheli...
Source: Cognitive Issues and COVID-19 Oct 23, 2021 3 years ago
Cognitive Issues and COVID-19: A new study by researchers from Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York has shown that that cognitive decline and brain fog can persist up to 8 months after contracting COVID-19!
Individuals who have survived COVID-19 frequently complain of cognitive dysfunction, which has been described as brain fog. The prevalence of post–COVID-19 cognitive im...
Source: Singapore COVID-19 News Oct 22, 2021 3 years ago
The current COVID-19 surges in Singapore are being driven by a new Delta Sub-variant identified as AY.23. This new sub-variant reportedly spots two new novel mutations that make it even more transmissible and immune evasive and is responsible for the large number of breakthrough infections. It is also said that this new sub-variant also replicates at an astounding rate once inside a human host, re...
Source: Manuka Honey-COVID-19 Oct 21, 2021 3 years ago
Manuka Honey-COVID-19: A new study by researchers from Qatar University has demonstrated that methylglyoxal (MG), a bioactive component in manuka honey exhibits virucidal properties against the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus in vitro.
The study findings were published in the University’s website and has not been peer reviewed by any third parties yet. https://qspace.qu.edu.qa/handle/10576/24...
SARS-CoV-2-Brain: A new MRI study by researchers from Saudi Arabia suggests pneumonia in COVID-19 patients is linked to viral-induced changes in the brain. MRI scans revealed that 57.9% of severe SARS-CoV-2 infected patients had recent brain lesions! The study findings provide further evidence that SAR-CoV-2 affects the brain and causes brain lesions and also generates various neurological manifes...
Source: Antithrombotics-COVID-19 Oct 21, 2021 3 years ago
Antithrombotics-COVID-19: A new multi-institutional clinical study has shown that antithrombotic therapy involving drugs like aspirin or apixaban is not warranted in COVID-19 outpatients.
The researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital-Massachusetts, University of Pittsburgh-Pennsylvania, University of Illinois-Chicago, Intermountain Healthcare-Utah, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Instit...
Source: Singapore COVID-19 News Oct 20, 2021 3 years ago
Singapore COVID-19 News: Not much was in the local Singapore mainstream news outlets about its record high 3,994 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours with many representing breakthrough infections and even requiring hospitalizations and a few even died despite being double vaccinated!
The country has been reporting more than 3,000 daily SARS-CoV-2 infections in recent days.
It sh...
COVID-19 Drugs: A new multinational retrospective cohort study by researchers from Penn State College of Medicine, Pennsylvania-USA shows that glucose-regulating medications used to treat obesity and type-2 diabetes may improve outcomes in COVID-19 patients with type-2 diabetes.
It has already been known that individuals with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) are at increased risk of severe COVID-1...
Source: AY.4.2 Delta sub-variant Oct 20, 2021 3 years ago
AY.4.2 Delta sub-variant: For the last 4 weeks, various U.S. agencies were trying to curtail and suppress any data with regards to the multitude of emerging Delta-sub-variants and even a lot of data were not stopped from being uploaded on online sharing platforms concerning emerging strains and variants. Of the more than 142 distinct Delta sub-variants found so far, some with concerning mutations ...
Source: COVID-19 Diagnostics Oct 19, 2021 3 years ago
COVID-19 Diagnostics: Scientist from the department of chemistry at the University of Warwick-UK along with experts from Iceni Diagnostics Ltd-UK and University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire (UHCW) NHS Trust-UK have developed and demonstrated a new diagnostic technology using sugars instead of antibodies to detect the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.
To date since the start of the COVID-19 pa...
A new breakthrough study by researchers From Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) Graduate University-Japan and the Institute of Medical Science at the University of Tokyo-Japan have identified a brain protein that plays a key in how the brain regulates appetite and metabolism.
The study team found that loss of the protein, XRN1, from the forebrain, resulted in obese mice wit...
Variant News: Genomic researchers and virologists from the EVT Viral Genomics and Sequencing Lab at Louisiana State University (LSU) Health Shreveport are the first in America to sequence and report that a new variant of SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, has been detected in the state of Louisiana.
According to the study team, the new B.1.630 variant, was sequenced last week from...
Source: SARS-CoV-2 Viral Persistence Oct 17, 2021 3 years ago
SARS-CoV-2 Viral Persistence: The COVID-19 pandemic is the best thing that has happened to mankind so far as it shows how incompetent most medical researchers and physicians are and worst, those ignorant bureaucratic developing medical and treatment guidelines from diagnostics, treatments, clinical practices etc. It also reflects on even how stupid majority of the masses are in accepting things an...
Source: Stem Cell Therapies Oct 16, 2021 3 years ago
A new study by researchers from University of California, Irvine-USA, University of Melbourne-Australia, Georgia Institute of Technology-USA and The State University of New York warns about the misinformation linked to ‘overhyped science’ on stem cell treatments for COVID-19.
Many previously published studies on stem cells claiming to be able to prevent or treat COVID-19 o...
Source: SARS-CoV-2-Sexual Transmissions Oct 15, 2021 3 years ago
A new study by researchers from Columbia Mailman School of Public Health-Columbia University, New York and Columbia University Irving Medical Center-New York have confirmed that presence of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus in semen of infected males and also has found that infected males or those that had recovered had low sperm count! The study findings published in the U.S. CDC Journal: Emerging Infec...
COVID-19 Drugs: A new study that analyzes real-world data utilizing artificial intelligence by researchers from AdventHealth Research Institute-Orlando, Oak Ridge National Laboratory-Tennessee and the University of Tennessee has found that the antiemetic drug Zofran (Ondansetron) lowers risk of mortality of severe COVID-19 patients on ventilators and is associated with increased survival of these ...
Long COVID is now becoming a more serious issue as initially certain earlier studies had found that only about 30 to 37 percent of people who were infected with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus will continue to suffer from a variety of long-term health/medical conditions known collectively as PASC or Post-acute Sequelae of COVID-19. However newer data is showing that not only are the medical conditions ...
Source: COVID-19 Immunology Oct 14, 2021 3 years ago
COVID-19 Immunology: A new study by researchers from the University of Glassgow-Scotland, the Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS-Italy and the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore-Italy has identified that a macrophage induced protein called SPP1 as a mediator that is driving multiple pathogenic inflammatory responses in severe COVID-19 as well as in Long COVID.
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Source: SARS-CoV-2 Research Oct 13, 2021 3 years ago
Scientists from the Global Health Institute-School of Life Sciences, Lausanne-Switzerland have in a new study found that acylation of spike of SARS-CoV-2 enhances infectivity and also fusion capacity.
Typically, SARS-CoV-2 virions are surrounded by a lipid bilayer that contains membrane proteins such as spike, responsible for target-cell binding and virus fusion.
The study team f...
Source: Toxic Chemicals And Human Health Oct 13, 2021 3 years ago
Toxic Chemicals: A new study by researchers from at NYU Grossman School of Medicine has found that daily exposure to chemicals called phthalates, which are used in the manufacture of plastic food containers and many cosmetics, may lead to roughly 100,000 premature deaths among older Americans each year.
Interestingly most of the deaths were due to phthalate-induced heart issues and not can...
Source: SARS-CoV-2-Eyes-Long COVID Oct 13, 2021 3 years ago
A new study by researchers from Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine has discovered that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is able to infect and replicate in the photoreceptor and also retinal ganglion cells of human retinal organoids.
Alarmingly the study findings not only suggest a retinal involvement in COVID 19 but also emphasize the need to monitor retinal pathologies as potential sequela...
Source: SARS-CoV-2 Research Oct 12, 2021 3 years ago
A new study by researchers from University of South Florida-Tampa along with experts from James A Haley Veterans Hospital-Florida and Florida International University-Port St. Lucie have found that palmitoylation of the first five cysteine residues of the C-terminal domain of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein is essential to SARS-CoV-2, facilitating cell entry and the formation of syncytia.
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Source: Phytochemical News Oct 12, 2021 3 years ago
A new study by researchers from Penn State College of Medicine has found that the phytochemical cum antioxidant found in most common edible mushrooms ie Ergothioneine, lowers the risk for depression.
The consumption of mushrooms has been making headlines due to their many health advantages including lowering one's risk of cancer and premature death, but this new study findings now reve...
I cringe whenever I see stupid government leaders around the world making public statements like “We should learn to live with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus” or what certain so called health officials or so called “experts” are telling the masses that the COVID-19 disease will become endemic and that things will then become manageable or ok!” Only the even more stupid ma...
Source: Lipids And COVID-19 Oct 11, 2021 3 years ago
A new study by researchers from the University of Pennsylvania showed that that lipids pay a critical role in SARS-CoV-2 replication and human immune response.
According to the study abstract, “Lipids play essential roles in the viral life cycle. The lipid composition of cell membranes can influence viral entry by mediating fusion or affecting receptor conformation. Upon infection, v...
As of last Friday, the Health Directorate in Iceland issued a total suspension of the usage of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine developed by a US pharmaceutical company due to concerns over increased risks of heart-inflammation.
Iceland joins a growing number of European countries including all four Nordic countries ie Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Norway that have either halted the usage of th...
Source: Phytochemicals To Treat COVID-19 Oct 10, 2021 3 years ago
Researchers from Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg-Germany and the University Hospital Tübingen-Germany along with experts from Marinomed Biotech AG-Austria are exploring the antiviral properties of a natural lectin from bread wheat (Triticum vulgaris) called Wheat Germ Agglutinin (WGA) to treat COVID-19.
Their study findings showed that the Wheat Germ Aggluti...
Source: Phytochemical News Oct 10, 2021 3 years ago
Phytochemical News: A new study led by researchers from University of South Florida Health has discovered that the phytochemical compound Fenchol has the same beneficial effect as gut-derived metabolites such as short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) in reducing neurotoxic amyloid-beta in the brain.
To date, multiple emerging evidence indicates that the gut microbiota contributes to the pathology...
Source: COVID-19 Immunology Oct 09, 2021 3 years ago
COVID-19 Immunology: A new study by researchers from Harvard medical School and MIT has found that neutrophil dysregulation is observed in severe COVID and that IgA-dominant responses drive neutrophil effector functions causing disease severity and mortality.
The study team collected 781 longitudinal blood samples from 306 hospitalized COVID-19+ patients, 78 COVID-19− acute...
Source: Pfizer COVId-19 Vaccine Oct 09, 2021 3 years ago
In a surprising new development, the elites controlling the narratives of the COVID-19 pandemic allowed the study findings of a two vaccine research investigations, one by scientists from Qatar and the second by researchers from Israel that alarmingly indicated that protection from the US COVID-19 vaccine by Pfizer may wane after only two months!
The studies were published in the pee...
Source: OAS1 Gene-COVID-19 Oct 08, 2021 3 years ago
OAS1 Gene and COVID-19: A new study by researchers from University of College London (UCL) has found that the OAS1 gene is a risk factor for bot the development of Alzheimer's Disease as well as COVID-19 severity.
The study team had previously reported that oligoadenylate synthetase 1 (OAS1) contributed to the risk of Alzheimer’s disease, by its enrichment in transcriptional...
Source: Long COVID-Kidney Disease Oct 08, 2021 3 years ago
Long-COVID-Kidney Disease: While many morons out there are assuming that COVID-19 is nothing as serious as the common flu and that it only affects the old or obese or those with existing comorbidities, its going to be fun in coming months and years as we see more people who had once been infected with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus start developing not just the mild manifestations of Long COVID such a...
Source: Monoclonal Antibodies-SARS-CoV-2 Variants Oct 07, 2021 3 years ago
Monoclonal Antibodies-SARS-CoV-2 Variants: If anything, the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed to those intelligent enough to understand anything that the elites in the United States are nothing more than the most filthy, unethical and greedy and corrupted live forms ever to emerge this earth.
From day one of the pandemic, certain American elites have been controlling the narratives of the COV...
Source: Long COVID Research Oct 07, 2021 3 years ago
Long COVID Research: A new study by researchers from Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai-New York shows that gene expression changes during acute SARS-CoV-2 infection may decide long-COVID symptoms.
Physicians and medical experts around the world are finally coming to terms that after 21 months into the COVID-19 pandemic, the post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 disease (PASC) or what are c...
Source: SARS-CoV-2 Emerging Variants Oct 06, 2021 3 years ago
SARS-CoV-2 Emerging Variants: A new study by French researchers from the Institut Pasteur-Paris, Université de Paris, Vaccine Research Institute-France and Sorbonne Université-Paris has alarmingly found that the various new emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants display enhanced syncytia formation! These findings confirm that the emerging variants are getting more dangerous for humans!
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Gout and COVID-19: Researchers from the University of Otago-New Zealand, University of Alabama at Birmingham-USA, University of Queensland-Australia and the University of Auckland-New Zealand have in a new study found that gout is a risk factor for SARS-CoV-2 infections and COVID-19 mortality. The study findings also showed that women with gout have higher COVID-19 death risk than men!
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Long COVID News: Long COVID or Post-Acute Sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC) is becoming a major issue of importance as the emerging data is indicating that it could be a major threat to public healthcare in various countries in coming months and years as the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and its emerging variants continue to ravage the world and infection rates are still increasing.
The spect...
Source: Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 Vaccine Oct 05, 2021 3 years ago
Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 Vaccine: A new study by researchers from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center-Boston-US, University of Montreal-Canada, M Tufts University-Massachusetts-USA, Oregon Health & Sciences University-USA, Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard-USA has found that the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine Ad26.COV2.S not only prevents SARS-CoV-2 induced thrombos...
Source: Long COVID Research Oct 04, 2021 3 years ago
Long COVID Research: A new study by researchers from McMaster University-Canada and University of Melbourne- Australia has found that individuals that only had mild COVID-19 infections still exhibited persistent leukocyte changes even three months after ‘recovery’!
It has been found that survivors of severe SARS-CoV-2 infections frequently suffer from a range of post-infection ...
Source: Vitamin D-COVID-19 Oct 03, 2021 3 years ago
UK Scientists Provides More Proof That Vitamin D Protects Against Severe COVID-19 Disease And Death While Questionable Canadian ‘Researchers’ Say Otherwise!
Vitamin D and COVID-19: A new study by researchers from Trinity College Dublin and University of Edinburgh has examined the association between vitamin D and COVID-19, and found that ambient ultraviolet B (UVB) radiati...
Source: SARS-CoV-2-LRRC15 Oct 03, 2021 3 years ago
SARS-CoV-2 and LRRC15: A new study by researchers from Wellcome Sanger Institute-UK, University of Cambridge-UK, Leibniz Institute for Primate Research-Germany, Georg-August University Göttingen-Germany and University of York has revealed that the protein called LRRC15 (Leucine-rich repeat containing 15) gene previously unknown to be involved in SARS-CoV-2 infection, is seen to interact with ...
Source: Blood Thinners-COVID-19 Oct 02, 2021 3 years ago
Blood Thinners-COVID-19: A new study by researchers from University of Minnesota-USA and Basel University-Switzerland has found that outpatients with COVID-19 who were on outpatient blood thinners at the time of diagnosis experienced a 43% reduced risk of hospitalization.
The study focused on COVID-19 positive patients who have been taking prescribed anticoagulant class rugs including warfarin, a...
Source: Hyperglycemia and COVID-19 Oct 02, 2021 3 years ago
Hyperglycemia and COVID-19: A new study by researchers from Weill Cornell Medicine-New York, USA has shown that COVID-19 not only is able to trigger hyperglycemia but it also disrupts fat cells and causes decreased production of the hormone Adiponectin especially in stages of disease severity.
Adiponectin (also referred to as GBP-28, apM1, AdipoQ and Acrp30) is a protein hormone and a...
Source: SARS-CoV-2 Research Oct 01, 2021 3 years ago
SARS-CoV-2 Research: A new study by researchers from University of Rochester has uncovered that the receptors ACE2 has novel protein interactions that are disrupted during SARS-CoV-2 infection, contributing to the spectrum of COVID-19 pathologies!
The ACE2 or angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 is the cell receptor that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus binds to and uses to enter and infect human cells.
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Source: Asymptomatic COVID-19 Oct 01, 2021 3 years ago
To date, almost 235 million people globally have been infected with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus according to official figures but in reality, as even proposed by the WHO and US CDC, these figures are much higher and could be even as high as five to eight fold!
However a majority of individuals upon infection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus are either asymptomatic or only suffer mild conditions of...
ADE and SARS-CoV-2 Variants: A new study by researchers from University of Wisconsin-Madison has shockingly revealed that Antibody-Dependent Enhancement of SARS-CoV-2 Infection Is mediated by the IgG Receptors FcγRIIA and FcγRIIIA but does not contribute to aberrant cytokine production by macrophages.
The study also warns that the new emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants could actually...
Source: COVID-19 Research Sep 30, 2021 3 years ago
COVID-19 Research: A new study by researchers from Yale University, Harvard University and Rockefeller University has found that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is not only able to penetrate into the human host macrophages but also replicates in them while triggering an inflammatory cascade and interferon upregulation that often results in COVID-19 disease severity.
A macrophage is an important...
Source: Intramuscular Injections Sep 29, 2021 3 years ago
The COVID-19 vaccines are meant to be injected intramuscularly and there is a safe technique in which when the needle is inserted, the syringe should be pulled back a bit to see if there is blood and if there is blood, then that means that a vessel has been penetrated and the needle should be withdrawn and re-injected again to another site, always making sure that that no vessels are penetrated an...
Source: Singapore COVID-19 News Sep 29, 2021 3 years ago
Singapore COVID-19 News: First it was Israel and then Singapore, both model countries for take up rates of COVID-19 vaccines that are now seeing new surges of COVID-19 infections among both the vaccinated and unvaccinated. And mind you not all cases are mild among the vaccinated as what most mainstream Western media are propagating it to be. Cases of disease severity, hospitalizations and deaths a...
Source: B.1.1.523-Variant Sep 28, 2021 3 years ago
B.1.1.523 variant: Researchers from Maastricht University Medical Center-Netherlands and the South Limburg Public Health 9 Service-Netherlands has identified yet another new SARS-CoV-2 variant B.1.1.523 that most probably originated from Russia and that combines many spike mutations linked to immune evasion from current variants of concern (VOC). The worrisome variant is fast spreading in Germany ...
SARS-CoV-2-Brain: A new preliminary but large-scale study led researchers from the Department of Clinical Neurosciences of the University of Oxford-UK, along with scientist from National Institutes of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health-USA and the Department of Brain Sciences, Imperial College-UK investigating brain changes in individuals who had experienced COVID-19 dr...
COVID-19 and the Heart:The European Society of Cardiology and its researchers are warning that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that causes the COVID-19 disease also affects the heart in so many ways and that fatalities and excess deaths due to COVID-19 induced heart issues are also rising.
The report was published in the peer reviewed e-Journal of Cardiology Practice (An official journal of the...
COVID-19 Herbs: A new study by American researchers from Eastern Virginia Medical School-Virginia, Rush University Medical Center-Illinois and Loyola University Chicago- Illinois has found that the phytochemical ginkgolic acid that is obtained from gingko biloba shows promising prospects as an antiviral to treat COVID-19 after finding that it was able to inhibit the infection of the coronavi...
Source: COVID-19-Autoimmune Diseases Sep 26, 2021 3 years ago
COVID-19 And Autoimmune Diseases: Various new studies are showing that an infection with the SARS-CoV-2 can also trigger a variety of autoimmune conditions and diseases including some never seen before.
In the first study by researchers from Stanford University School of Medicine-USA, the study team found that in severe hospitalized COVID-19 patients, the immune system is tricked into prod...
Source: COVID-19 Research Sep 26, 2021 3 years ago
COVID-19 Research: Day by day newer study findings and data are emerging that gives us a more detailed perspective about the COVID-19 disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. Some of these findings add to the list of things that we already know while some supersede previous assumptions or weak study findings about the pathogenesis of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the human host cellular pathway re...