Thailand Coronavirus News is a section dedicated to the new coronavirus that is causing an epidemic in China and fast spreading globally. The strain of coronavirus called Covid-19 or also commonly called the Wuhan coronavirus is genetically more potent and faster spreading than the SARS coronavirus. Currently teams are working to develop a new vaccine for this new coronavirus while other teams are...
Source: COVID-19 Long Haulers Oct 29, 2020 2 years ago
COVID-19 Long Haulers: According to new research findings presented at the recently held 29th Congress of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology by researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), certain patients with COVID-19 have persistent skin-related symptoms long after their initial infection has cleared.
Such dermatological issues tend to be point to another bur...
COVID-19 Latest: A new study by researchers from Wellcome Sanger Institute-UK, various departments at the National Institute of Health-Maryland, University of North Carolina School Of Medicine-Chapel Hill, Craig Venter Institute, La Jolla-California, University of California-San Diego, University of Maryland School of Medicine-Baltimore, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge-UK and ADA Science & Res...
Source: COVID-19 Genetics Oct 29, 2020 2 years ago
COVID-19 Genetics: Genetics, genomics and personalized or precision medicine is going to play a very critical role in treating the COVID-19 disease and more researches and experts have to start adopting this approach.
The specific SARS-CoV-2 variant that is at play and the patient’s full genetic will determine the success of treatment protocols and therapeutics.
In a new TMN ...
Source: Recovered COVID-19 Patients Oct 29, 2020 2 years ago
Recovered COVID-19 patients are most likely to still have the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus in them despite being termed as ‘recovered ‘as a result of negative nasal swab PCR test.
A recent research published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine presents new findings and data that address important questions pertaining to the containment of the coronavirus pandemi...
Source: COVID-19 Immunology Oct 29, 2020 2 years ago
COVID-19 Immunology: Researchers from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)-Germany, Heidelberg University-Germany, German Cancer Research Center-Heidelberg, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford Genome Technology Center and the University of California-San Diego have in a new study explored if the innate immune response triggered in the human gut to combat viral infection is...
Herd Immunity: Researchers from Department of Applied Computer and Biosciences, University of Applied Sciences Mittweida-Germany, African Institute for Mathematical Sciences-Cameroon, Limbe, Department of Mathematics, University of Buea, Buea-Cameroon, Department of Mathematics-Lehigh University, Bethlehem-USA and West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens, University of Ghana ha...
Research News: A new study by researchers from Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons has found that coronaviruses including the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes the COVID-19 disease are adept at imitating human immune proteins that have been implicated in severe conditions.
It has been known that viruses deploy genetically encoded strategies to co-opt host machinery a...
COVID-19 Latest: Researchers from a Canada in a new study have found that the SARS-CoV-2 has yet another manner of messing up the human host immune system by using its viral papain proteases to target the ULK1 kinase enzymes which leads to disruption of cellular autophagy, a critical component of the immune function.
The study findings were published on a preprint server but are currently...
Source: Dietary Supplements Oct 28, 2020 2 years ago
Dietary Supplements: A study led by researchers from Imperial College London, NNEdPro Global Centre for Nutrition and Health-Cambridge, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and Nagasaki University-Japan have found that high vitamin A, E, and D intake may be linked to fewer respiratory complaints in adults. The study involved analysis of nationally representative long term survey d...
COVID-19 News: Medical researchers from Baylor College of Medicine and the University of Pittsburgh have gathered more than 80 studies, reviewed the data, and identified commonalities that are helping to paint a broader picture of how COVID-19 affects the brain.
The study findings, focused on electroencephalogram (EEG) abnormalities of the brain. EEG is a test used to evaluate the electri...
Source: COVID-19 Supplements Oct 28, 2020 2 years ago
COVID-19 Supplements: A new study by Spanish researchers from the Hospital Marqués de Valdecilla-IDIVAL-Santander and the University of Cantabria Santander has found that over 82 percent of 216 hospitalized COVID-19 patients had vitamin D deficiency.
The study joints numerous other research confirming the critical role that Vitamin D plays in COVID-19 despite certain American media st...
Source: Echocardiograms And COVID-19 Oct 27, 2020 2 years ago
Echocardiograms or cardiac ultrasounds are providing a view of the heart and the impact of the COVID-19 virus on patients. Researchers from Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in a new study have identified different types of cardiac structural damage experienced by COVID-19 patients after cardiac injury that can be associated with deadly conditions including heart attack, pulmonary embolism, ...
Source: Antibodies-COVID-19 Oct 27, 2020 2 years ago
Antibodies-COVID-19: It was reported in the last 24 hours that U.S. government and health officials are putting an immediate stop to a study testing an Eli Lilly antibody drug LY-CoV555, for individuals hospitalized with COVID-19 because it doesn't seem to be helping them. https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04501978?term=ACTIV-3&draw=2&rank=1
Initially independent monitors...
Source: COVID-19 Symptoms Oct 27, 2020 2 years ago
COVID-19 Symptoms: Moroccan medical researchers have reported a documented case of a COVID-19 patient manifesting double vision (Diplopia) and misalignment of her left eye (Strabismus). Investigations showed that the conditions were a result of third cranial nerve palsy caused as a result of SARS-CoV-2 infection.
Restricted upgaze (A), adduction (B), and downgaze (C) of the left eye in ocular mo...
Source: COVID-19 Genetics Oct 27, 2020 2 years ago
COVID-19 Genetics : Scientists from Yale University and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard screened hundreds of millions of cells exposed to the COVID-19 and MERS viruses and identified dozens of genes that both enable the viruses to replicate in cells and also those that seem to slam the door on the virus.
The study team said that the identification of host genes essential for SARS-C...
COVID-19 Latest: According to a new study by researchers from Weill Cornell Medicine and New York-Presbyterian when a patient is hospitalized with COVID-19, signs of damage to the right side of the heart may indicate a greater risk of death.
The study findings suggest that doctors should consider looking for such damage using a readily available and non-invasive ultrasound test called an ...
Neurology-Stroke: A new study by researchers from Yale University, Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart and Vascular Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Houston Methodist Research Institute and Medstar Union Memorial Hospital-Baltimore has found that almost 30 percent of young American adults do not know what are the symptoms of a stroke...
Source: U.S. COVID-19 Latest Oct 26, 2020 2 years ago
U.S. COVID-19 Latest: The sad findings from a new study by researchers from Harvard University Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospitals, Massachusetts General Hospital and also experts from Yale University show that COVID-19 is now becoming the leading cause of death between those aged 25 to 44 years of age, surpassing deaths from unintentional opioid overdoses!
The study findi...
Source: COVID-19 Quarantine Oct 26, 2020 2 years ago
COVID-19 Quarantine: Scientist from Trinity College Dublin have in a new study have found an updated accurate estimate of the incubation period of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, the pathogen that causes the COVID-19 disease to be anything from one to up to 34 days!
The study findings contradicts initial estimates made during the early stages of the pandemic that claimed the incub...
COVID-19 Drugs: Researchers from Yale University School of Medicine in a new study exploring the inhibitory effects of the drug merofloxacin on frameshifting during SARS-CoV-2 replication have reported positive results in vitro studies. The study findings are an important proof-of-concept that supports the potential for targeting −1 PRF (programmed −1 ribosomal frameshifting) as a...
Source: Latest Coronavirus News Oct 25, 2020 2 years ago
Latest Coronavirus News: Chinese health authorities are reporting new COVID-19 cases sprouting all over in various cities and counties in the far-western region of Xinjiang.
The outbreak initially started in the predominantly muslim Shufu county where a single case was reported on Saturday but in the last few hours hundreds of cases are being reported all over the Xinjiang province.
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Source: SARS-CoV-2 Strains Oct 25, 2020 2 years ago
SARS-CoV-2 Strains: A new study led by researchers from University of Missouri along with scientists from University of Nebraska and Karolinska Institute-Sweden have alarmingly discovered that most of the new prevailing SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus strains in the United States and Europe are not just strains containing the D61G mutation on them but they also have two other mutations on them ie P323L and...
Source: COVID-19 Supplements Oct 25, 2020 2 years ago
COVID-19 Supplements: There is now growing interests in the usage of lysine as a possible adjuvant to treat COVID-19 among the research community after a non-medical professional by the name of Bo Karlicki from the the Dominican Republic took his own initiative to do his own research and started advocating the usage of Lysine to help in the possible treatment of COVID-19 and also as a possibl...
Source: COVID-19 Symptoms Oct 25, 2020 2 years ago
COVID-19 Symptoms: Researchers from ULB Neuroscience Institute, Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB)-Belgium in a new study have discovered that smell loss in COVID-19 patients is not due to SARS-CoV-2 neuro-invasiveness but rather due to changes in the brain metabolic processes.
This however does not discount than SARS-CoV-2 neuro-invasiveness cannot or does not occur. It does but ...
Aspirin-COVID-19: A new study led by researchers from University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) shows that hospitalized COVID-19 patients who were taking a daily low-dose aspirin to protect against cardiovascular disease had a significantly lower risk of complications and death compared to those who were not taking aspirin.
Importantly, aspirin takers were less likely to be placed...
POST COVID: A new study by researchers from Imperial College London-UK, University of Southampton-UK, University of Cambridge-UK and King’s College London-UK and University of Chicago-USA has reported concerning findings showing that patients who had recovered from COVID-19 exhibited significant cognitive deficits.
Numerous past studies have revealed neurological problems in severel...
Source: United States-COVID-19 Oct 24, 2020 2 years ago
United States-COVID-19: America reported a record of more than 81,000 new COVID-19 infections over the last 24 hours according to figures from Worldometer.
It was reported that between 8:30 pm Thursday and the same time Friday, 81,210 infections were recorded, bringing the total number since the start of the pandemic to nearly 8.5 million COVID-19 infected cases in the country w...
Source: COVID-19 Supplements Oct 24, 2020 2 years ago
COVID-19 Supplements: A new study by researchers from the Institute for Optimum Nutrition-UK, University of Otago-New Zealand, Swansea University Medical School-UK, Morriston Hospital-UK Eastern, Virginia Medical School-USA and University of Oxford-UK demonstrates that Vitamin C can be used as an adjuvant to treat COVID-19 especially in the severe and critical stages.
Ascorbic acid or vit...
Source: COVID-19 -Dexamethasone Oct 24, 2020 2 years ago
COVID-19 -Dexamethasone: A new study led by researchers from University of Virginia-U.S. along with scientist from Polish Academy of Sciences-Poland, Poznan University of Technology-Poland, Medical University of Bialystok-Poland and University of South Carolina-U.S. has discovered a about how the human body transports dexamethasone, a drug that can increase the survival chances of patients wi...
Source: Convalescent Plasma Oct 23, 2020 2 years ago
Convalescent Plasma: An open label phase II multicenter randomized controlled trial (PLACID Trial) of convalescent plasma in the management of moderate COVID-19 in 464 adults in India has showed that the treatment protocol does not does not reduce their chances of getting seriously ill or dying, in simple words, it is not effective in treating COVID-19.
The study findings were publis...
Source: COVID-19 Infections Oct 23, 2020 2 years ago
Editorial:
COVID-19 Infections: A new record high of 478,065 COVID-19 infections was recorded in the last 24 hours with just a mere 6,740 deaths. (Source: Worldometer)
However despite the mediocre death rates, the rising new COVID-19 infections are a good sign as it shows that the second wave is truly coming and more are expected to die.
Now some might wonder as to why a med...
COVID-19 Updates: A new study by researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital, Icahn School of Medicine, Cohen Children's Medical Center, University of California-San Francisco, Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, University of Pennsylvania and Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra-Northwell, Hempstead has shown that contrary what was earlier assumed, may severe COVID-19 patients do not...
America Latest: America is facing a major health crisis with the Trump Administration in power and the degree of incompetency, greed and corruption in play. Already America has a total of more than 8.4 million confirmed COVID-19 cases with realistic figures expected to be much higher due to under-reporting in Republican controlled states and lack of testing among asymptomatic cases and as of today...
Virus News: Alarmingly three documented case studies have emerged of individuals developing Parkinson's-like symptoms in the weeks following infection with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
Initially thought to be rare, there are now growing cases being reported by clinicians in Italy, UK, Germany and United States with more researchers and physicians paying more a...
COVID-19-News: Researchers from Semmelweis University and Pazmany Peter Catholic University in Budapest-Hungary, in a news study shows and echoes the same hypothesis that Thailand Medical News has been stating since the start of the pandemic: COVID-19 disease progression and severity and even Post-COVID-19 effects are all dictated by the various mutated strains and variants of the SARS-CoV-2 coron...
Drugs-COVID-19: Fortunately another COVID-19 drug scam is being prevented after the remdesivir saga thanks to honest and credible researchers that cannot be manipulated by money. The US FDA under the Trump administration and Trump’s family and cronies has done even damage with hydrochloroquine and remdesivir issues with many American lives lost and hopefully after Trump loses this elections,...
COVID-19 Scams: Associate Editor at the British Medical Journal (BMJ) Professor Dr Peter Doshi, in a daring but truthful revelation yesterday warned that vaccine trials currently underway are not designed to tell us if they will save lives.
https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4037
Although several COVID-19 vaccine trials are now in their most advanced phase 3 stage, but what will i...
Vaccine News: Brazil's health authority Anvisa reported that Brazilian volunteer participating in clinical trials of the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca has died on the 18th of October.
It was unclear whether the volunteer had received the vaccine or a placebo and in countries like Brazil, the organizers can easily switch the facts in or...
Source: Food and Nutrition Oct 21, 2020 2 years ago
Food-Nutrition: Dutch researchers from University of Twente-Netherlands led by pediatrician Dr Ellen van der Gaag in a news study on the effect of unprocessed, pure food on children's health, specifically on the common cold and other upper respiratory tract infections have also discovered certain foods that can help prevent respiratory tract infections.
The study findings were publish...
COVID-19 Spread: Brazilian researchers have developed a new model that predicts spatial and temporal evolution of epidemic diseases and can help plan more effective social isolation programs with less socio-economic impact. The new research study proposes an epidemiological model that provides a more detailed description of how the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that causes the COVID-19 diseas...
Source: Precision Epidemiology Oct 21, 2020 2 years ago
Precision Epidemiology: Finally more and more researchers are waking up to fact that COVID-19 cannot be treated in a broad spectrum manner as a personalized or precision medicine approach has to be undertaken to treat every individual as there are so many factors at play including the human host genes and variants from one person to the next coupled with fact that even strains of the virus that ar...
Source: COVID-19 Diagnostics Oct 21, 2020 2 years ago
COVID-19 Diagnostics: Siemens Healthineers has introduced the CLINITEST Rapid COVID-19 Antigen Test that helps identify SARS-CoV-2 infected individuals in 15 minutes so they can isolate sooner and avoid spreading COVID-19.
The easy-to-use test, which doesn't require specialized laboratory personnel or instruments, offers flexibility to test in locations that benefit from immediate results
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Source: Antibodies COVID-19 Oct 21, 2020 2 years ago
Antibodies COVID-19: A Canadian study last month led by by Université de Montréal professor Dr Andrés Finzi, holder of a Canada Research Chair in Retroviral Entry, and Dr Renée Bazin, director of innovation at Héma-Québec, showed that the neutralization capacity of antibodies produced by a SARS-CoV-2 infected person declined after six weeks, as the person ...
COVID-19 Updates: A breakthrough international research led by scientist from University of Bristol-UK along with experts from University of Queensland –Australia, University of Tartu-Estonia, University of Zurich-Switzerland, Biological Research Centre (BRC), Szeged-Hungary, University of Helsinki-Finland, Institute of Biochemistry-Switzerland, University of Liverpool-UK and Singapore Immun...
Source: Canada COVID-19 Updates Oct 20, 2020 2 years ago
Canada COVID-19 Updates: A more aggressive second wave of COVID-19 has hit Canada with total infected cases now topping over 200,000 COVID-19 cases and is nearing to 10,000 deaths according to official COVID-19 data compiled by Canadian broadcasters CBC and CTV.
What is also more concerning is that a few of the SARS-CoV-2 antibody resistant strains and also more aggressive and infec...
Source: COVID-19 Clinical Care Oct 20, 2020 2 years ago
COVID-19 Clinical Care: Researchers from the department of Genetics, University of Georgia-U.S. and Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai-China in a collaborative study have discovered a correlation between the white blood cell count and COVID-19 disease severity. The white blood cells are a critical component of the body’s immune system that helps fight infections.
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COVID-19 Drugs: Ensifentrine a drug originally developed by UK based pharmaceutical cum biotech company Verona Pharma to treat chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or COPD could be a new treatment option for hospitalized COVID-19 patients. According to research this dual bronchodilator and anti-inflammatory drug be safe and effective in COVID-19 patients experiencing the debilitating effects of s...
U.S. COVID-19 Updates: America is facing a new surge in COVID-19 cases and the coming winter season will see a catastrophic scenario never seen in its history where it is projected that millions more of Americans will contract the SARS-CoV-2 while hundreds of thousands will be severely ill and will ultimately die.
To date more than 220,180 Americans had died from the COVID-19 disease whil...
Post COVID-19: Researchers from University of Oxford in a new study looking at the longer-term impact of COVID-19 has found that a large proportion of COVID-19 patients discharged from hospital were still experiencing symptoms of breathlessness, fatigue, anxiety and depression two to three months after contracting the virus.
The study team carrying out the C-MORE study has also detected a...
Research News: A study team from the Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla-California led by Dr Taishi Kimura, Ph.D., postdoctoral research associate and first author of the study has uncovered an important disease-fighting role for cells called hepatocytes, which constitute most of the liver. It was found that hepatocytes help control infections from common viruses called coxsackieviruses, and pro...
Source: COVID-19 Questions Oct 19, 2020 2 years ago
COVID-19 Questions: In the last few days as we were perusing more studies and emerging data, some things really are not adding up and perhaps some other media, researchers or experts can help us with a few answers please.
First, a study dated 2008 makes mention of SARS-CoV-2 and even of a SARS-CoV-3 and this study though was conducted by Chinese researchers in Beijing was catalogued by th...
NEURO-COVID: A new study led by researchers from New York University Langone Health/NYU School of Medicine along with scientists from John Hopkins and University of Utah have found that about one in seven COVID-19 patients has potentially damaging neurological injuries.
It was found that these neurological injuries range from temporary confusion resulting from low body-oxygen levels ...
COVID-19-News: Researchers from IBM Research at T.J. Watson Research Center-New York, have in a new study found that heteroplasmy was more common in COVID-19 patients that actually thought. Heteroplasmy is a condition when a COVID-19 patient is co-infected with more than one variant or lineage of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. The implications from this study finding are massive in terms of treatment...
Source: COVID-19 Research Oct 19, 2020 2 years ago
COVID-19 Research: A new study by researchers from John Hopkins involving young obese mice has found that obesity typically leads to upregulation of ACE2 receptor expression especially in the lungs and trachea, increasing the risk factor for SARS-CoV-2 infection and severity.
In the study, the researchers demonstrated that:
-a) Ace2 expression is elevated in the lung and trach...
Virus News: A frequent medical question since the last century has been why are some individuals more resilient to viruses than others? Possible answers to that question has eluded researchers and scientists for centuries and, in the age of COVID-19, has come to represent one of the holy grails of biomedical research.
Dr Ed Chuong, an assistant professor of molecular, cellular and develop...
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