Source: COVID-19 Immuno-Genetics Dec 30, 2020 11 months ago
COVID-19 Immuno-Genetics: A new study by researchers from University of Edinburgh-UK shows that genes could be key to new COVID-19 treatments.
Potential treatments for COVID-19 have been identified after the discovery of five genes associated with the most severe form of the disease.
The study findings were published in the peer reviewed journal: Nature Communications. https://www....
Source: COVID-19 Research Dec 30, 2020 11 months ago
COVID-19 Research: A new study by researchers from the Seville Institute of Biomedicine-Spain, the University Hospitals Virgen del Rocío y Macarena-Spain and University of Seville-Spain have found that silent hypoxemia or the lack of blood oxygenation detected in numerous COVID-19 patients is possibly due to carotid bodies being infected by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.
The carotid bodies (C...
COVID-19 News: A new study by scientists specializing in high-altitude diseases from the High Altitude Pulmonary and Pathology Institute (IPPA)-Bolivia have proposed a new hypothesis that states that pneumolysis and not cytokines storms are what are that are causing lung damage in COVID-19 patients.
This new findings challenges all initial assumptions about the pathogenesis and disease pr...
Virus News: Scientists from University of Alabama have in a new study found that individuals recovering from COVID-19 exhibit sustained cellular immune dysregulation.
To date it has been found that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus causes a wide spectrum of clinical manifestations and significant mortality.
Research investigating underlying immune characteristics is needed to understand d...
Source: Metformin-COVID-19 Dec 29, 2020 11 months ago
Metformin-COVID-19: The American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists in a recent published clinical case report warns that diabetes patients taking SGLT2 Inhibitors to manage their diabetes may develop rare and sometimes serious complications upon contracting COVID-19.
SGLT2 inhibitors are a class of prescription medicines that are FDA-approved for use with diet and exercise to ...
Influenza News: Researchers from the University of Chicago and Icahn School of Medicine-Mount Sinai in a new study found that an individuals's antibody response to influenza viruses is dramatically shaped by their pre-existing immunity, and that the quality of this response differs in individuals who are vaccinated or naturally infected. Their results highlight the importance of receivin...
Source: COVID-19 Research Dec 28, 2020 11 months ago
COVID-19 Research: Scientists from IrsiCaixa AIDS Research Institute-Spain, Dentaid Research Center-Cerdanyola del Vallès, Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute (IGTP)-Badalona, and the Central University of Catalonia have discovered through in vitro studies that cetylpyridinium chloride, found in most mouthwashes, lowers infectivity of SARS-CoV-2 likely by inhibiting viral fusion w...
Source: SARS-CoV-2 Variants Dec 28, 2020 11 months ago
SARS-CoV-2 Variants: A new study by researchers from CSIR Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (CSIR-IGIB)-India, Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), CSIR-HRDC Ghaziabad-India and the Kurnool Medical College-India have identified 19 New SARS-CoV-2 variants in India with one possessing the N440K Mutation. All of these strains have human host immune evading mechanisms.
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COVID-19 News: Don’t you just like it when COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers, researchers and American and British journalists under the payroll of Pharmaceutical giants, certain news wire agencies and also clueless health authorities around the world making public statements that the current COVID-19 vaccines will not be affected by the emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants despite some having as much ...
Vaccine News: Individuals who have cosmetic facial fillers be it in their lips, nose, eye contours or elsewhere in their face will likely develop swellings and inflammation on those areas after having a dose of the Moderna’s vaccine.
This was observed during initial clinical trials and also in certain individuals as the vaccines rolled out
Also the U.S.FDA advisory committee ...
A new COVID-19 Study by scientist from McMaster University-Canada, Beijing Institute of Technology-China and Columbia University- USA has revealed that that SARS-CoV-2 spike and antibody binding strength and hydrogen bonds quantity are temperature dependent.
In their abstract, the study team said that the global efforts so far against the COVID-19 pandemic relies strongly on the human def...
Source: COVID-19 In 2021 Dec 25, 2020 11 months ago
As the year comes to an end, we have been having so much “garbage” spewing from the mouths of individuals who either have no clue what brewing with regards to the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus or are maybe are just trying to inject in some optimism to prevent social unrest.
In mid of 2020, we had so called authorities who said that tourism and businesses will pick up at end of the ye...
Source: Thailand Medical News Dec 25, 2020 11 months ago
For the past few weeks we have been constantly been bombarded with half-baked research studies mostly by greedy researchers or institutions that are often funded directly or indirectly by the U.S. Government agencies like NIH, CDC etc or by the pharmaceutical and biotech companies that have a vested interested in the current vaccines and antibody therapeutics making claims that antibodies provide ...
Source: SARS-CoV-2 Variant Dec 24, 2020 11 months ago
The Africa CDC has reported that another new SARS-CoV-2 variant has emerged in Nigeria and is working on defining the mutations on the genomic structure of the new variant.
On Thursday, Africa's top public health official, the head of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr John Nkengasong told media, "It's a separate lineage from the UK and South Africa.&qu...
Source: B.1.1.7 UK Variant Dec 24, 2020 11 months ago
Some of the mutations on the B.1.1.7 U.K. variant are actually the result of neutralizing antibodies induced spike protein mutations and warrants concerns according to a new study led by scientist from University of Cambridge that is published on a preprint server and is currently being peer reviewed. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.05.20241927v2
SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein i...
COVID-19 News: Austrian researchers from the University of Vienna, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Kaiser Franz Josef Hospital-Vienna and the Medical University of Innsbruck have in a new study alarmingly discovered that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that that is causing the COVID-19 pandemic are undergoing strategic mutations that affect the host immune capacity to recognize and combat the patho...
Source: COVID-19 Clinical Care Dec 23, 2020 11 months ago
COVID-19 Clinical Care: A new study by medical scientists from Rutgers University shows that hospitalized COVID-19 patients who had secondary blood infections typically developed disease severity and were significantly sicker upon hospital admission, had longer hospital stays and poorer outcomes.
This is the first study to date to assess the microbiology, risk factors and outcomes i...
Source: UK Variant B.1.1.7 Dec 23, 2020 11 months ago
The U.S. CDC updated its site with details of the emerging SARS-CoV-2 Variant VOC 202012/01 (Also known as B.1.1.7) along with possible implications.
The CDC site indicated that the current COVID-19 Vaccines approved by the U.S. FDA ie Pfizer’s and Moderna’s vaccines might not be able to offer protection against this new variant! https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/more/sc...
COVID-19 Herbs: Researchers from the Medical University Duisburg-Essen-Germany, Ruhr University Bochum-Germany and the Institute for Virology at the University Hospital Essen-Germany have in a new vitro study demonstrated that the phytochemical Glycyrrhizin extracted from licorice root is able to inhibit the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.
The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, the causative pathogen that c...
Source: U.S. Medical News Dec 22, 2020 11 months ago
U.S. Medical News: As of today, more than 18 million Americans have contracted the COVID-19 disease, of which more than 85 per cent of them are going to have to endure some kind of long term health complication. More than 320,000 Americans have died from the disease, disrupting and causing grief to many families and loved ones.
When the COVID-19 crisis first started in China and during th...
COVID-19 News: Physicians from the Department of Pediatrics, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago- Illinois report a case the first documented case so far of a 14 month year old boy contracting Laryngotracheitis (Croup) as a result of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus infection.
Laryngotracheobronchitis, commonly called as Croup, also known as is a type of respiratory infection&nbs...
Source: Thailand Coronavirus News Dec 21, 2020 11 months ago
Thailand Coronavirus News: Local transmissions of COVID-19 are increasing in Thailand after the initial reported cases in Samut Sakhon province.
Myanmar Workers at Samut Sakhon made to queue up
in public to take COVID-19 tests without any social distancing etc!
Samut Sakhon: The first patient of this outbreak was a 68 year old Thai woman who has never gone out of the country, meaning the ...
Source: SARS-CoV-2 Variants Dec 21, 2020 11 months ago
SARS-CoV-2 Variants: Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Thailand Medical News has been calling for careful monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 mutation strains emerging. However we were constantly ridiculed by certain so called ‘experts ‘including one from the University College London who is under the payroll of numerous pharmaceutical companies and whose very own colleagues are now r...
News-COVID-19: A new study by researchers from University Of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) may help explain as to why the risk of strokes is greatly increased in SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus infected individuals. In the last few months of the COVID-19 pandemic, the incidence of strokes has greatly risen and in many countries, excess deaths has been attributed to an increase in strokes. Stroke manifestat...
Source: Thailand COVID-19 News Dec 19, 2020 12 months ago
Thailand COVID-19 News: Thai health officials from the CSSA (Centre for COVID-19 Situation Administration) made a shocking announcement on Saturday December 19th at about 9pm Bangkok time that there were a total of 548 new confirmed cases of local transmission of COVID-19 in Thailand at Samut Sakhon province.
Myanmar Migrant Workers Sorting Seafood At Samut Sakhon
What was shocking was no...
Source: Preprints-COVID-19 Dec 19, 2020 12 months ago
Preprints-COVID-19: Currently on a daily average there are about almost 140 research studies being published on numerous preprint servers but many do not even get the attention of science or medical journals unless they can afford the high fees charged by some of these journals or they have the backing of huge pharmaceutical companies behind them or have access to the right contacts as there is a ...
COVID-19 News: A new research by scientists from the University of California Riverside, University of Zurich, McGill University-Montreal, University of California-San Diego and Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope has discovered that the autoimmune PTPN2 risk variant rs1893217 gene found in most individuals with autoimmune diseases including Inflammatory bowel disease IBD, rheuma...
Source: SARS-CoV-2 Mutations Dec 19, 2020 12 months ago
A new SARS-CoV-2 mutation strain that exhibits spike deletion mutations ΔH69/ΔV70 is fast becoming prevalent and is not only able only escape human host immune recognition but could well also be resistant to various types of antibodies according to a new research by scientists from the University College London, University of Cambridge and the University of Glasgow Centre for Vir...
Source: Coronavirus News Dec 18, 2020 12 months ago
Coronavirus News: A new study by researchers from the University of Utah and the University of California-Davis shows that SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus like particles are highly sensitive to temperature increases and thrives in cooler temperatures.
The SARS-CoV-2 is a novel coronavirus which has caused the COVID-19 pandemic. Other known coronaviruses show a strong pattern of seasonality, with t...
Cancer Drugs: Pembrolizumab, an immunotherapy drug has been recently approved by the U.S. FDA as a first-line treatment for patients with certain types of advanced colorectal cancer. This is the 9th FDA approval supported by Stand Up To Cancer® (SU2C) research.
Individuals newly diagnosed with advanced or metastatic microsatellite instability-high (MSI-H) or mismatch repair deficient (d...
COVID-19 News: Scientists from Yale Medical School have made yet another alarming discovery that the human host’s blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) are able to harbor the SARS-CoV-2 genome with implications for viral persistence and dangers to various human organs over time.
Various different viruses infect circulating mononuclear cells to disseminate infection to diverse organs. Blood...
COVID-19 Drugs: The second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic is currently taking a toll on numerous countries around the world with daily global infection rates now surpassing 700,000 and daily COVID-19 deaths now exceeding 13,000 (On December 16th new records were reported with more than 725,950 COVID-19 infections in 24 hours and 13,558 COVID-19 deaths).
As of Friday, (9am Bangkok time), th...
Source: COVID-19 Research Dec 18, 2020 12 months ago
COVID-19 Research: Scientists from Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System-Seattle, University of Washington School of Medicine- Seattle and Oregon Health & Science University-Portland have in a new study demonstrated that the spike or S protein of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is able to penetrate and cross the blood-brain barrier in mice models indicating that it is most probably able t...
Source: Thailand Medical News Dec 17, 2020 12 months ago
A new study by researchers from Washington University School of Medicine- Saint Louis, Missouri has found that the surface proteins on sars-cov-2 virus modifies expression of key cytokines and chemokines in cell lines, inducing induce interferon-dependent inflammation.
According to the study team, SARS-CoV-2, the virus that has caused the COVID-19 pandemic, robustly activates the host imm...
Source: Thailand Medical News Dec 17, 2020 12 months ago
According to a new study led by scientist from the University of Manchester –UK, previously healthy children infected with COVID-19 can develop severe neurological complications.
The CNS manifestations of COVID-19 in children have primarily been described in case reports, which limit the ability to appreciate the full spectrum of the disease in pediatric patients.
This study ...
Vaccine News: An American health worker from Alaska had a serious allergic reaction after getting a Pfizer Inc and BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine shot and was hospitalized, but is now stable, U.S. public health authorities said on Wednesday.
The health worker with no known allergies suffered adverse reaction minutes after taking the Pfizer shot on Tuesday.
Similar cases were rep...
COVID-19 News: A new study by researchers from Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research-Cambridge, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering-Harvard University, Department of Biology-Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences-Harvard University have alarmingly discovered that the SARS-CoV-2 RNA is reverse-transcribed...
Source: Supplements For COVID-19 Dec 17, 2020 12 months ago
Supplements For COVID-19: A new study by researchers from CIRI (Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie)-France and the University Hospital of St-Etienne-France have shown that copper gluconate is able to inhibit SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus infection n vitro and has the potential to be used as a supplement to help in controlling COVID-19 infections in the role as an adjuvant.
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Diabetes News: Australian researchers led by the University of Adelaide that involved six specialist centers across Australia have in the largest randomized trial ever conducted investigating testosterone treatment shown that, over and above the effect of a lifestyle program, treatment with testosterone prevents or reverses newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes in men.
Men who are overweight or ...
Vaccine News: A new preliminary study led by researchers from Oxford University and includes scientists from University College London, Université de Strasbourg-France and University of Birmingham-UK shows that a natural compound called spermidine, which helps immune cells self-clean, may improve vaccine protection in older adults.
According to the study abstract, older adults are ...
Source: Coronavirus News Dec 16, 2020 12 months ago
Coronavirus News: Researchers from Johns Hopkins Medicine and the University of Maryland School of Medicine conclude in a perspective editorial that while a fever is one of the most common symptoms for individuals who get sick with COVID-19, taking one's temperature is a poor means of screening who is infected with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that causes the disease, and more importantly, who m...
Cancer-Herbs: Researchers from the Translational Genomics Research Institute-Phoenix (an affiliate of City of Hope), Baylor Institute for Immunology Research-Dallas and the Salk Institute for Biological Studies-San Diego have in a new study found that a phytochemical derived from the Tripterygium Wilfordii Plant (Commonly called thunder god vine) is able to kill cancer cells and potentially improv...
HIV News: A new collaborative international HIV study has shown that Dolutegravir, the current first-line treatment for HIV, may not be as effective as hoped in sub-Saharan Africa.
The research finds that this so-called 'wonder drug' may be less effective in patients resistant to older drugs.
The research findings were published in the peer reviewed journal: Nature Communications. ...
Source: U.S. Medical News Dec 15, 2020 12 months ago
U.S. Medical News: Various media are covering the plight of an American ER doctor who tweeted his concerns his concern about the lack of available ICU beds on Nov. 22 in the state of Arizona and was subsequently ‘fired’ from the Yuma Regional Medical Center at Arizona despite a shortage of doctors as he had apparently made Governor Doug Ducey look like a liar after the governor h...
COVID-19 News: A new study by researchers from the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine-Philadelphia warns that the SARS-CoV-2 can in most times damage children's blood vessels, with consequences that might surface decades after the infection subsides.
Although most children with SARS-CoV-2 infection have mild or minimal dis...
Source: Coronavirus News Dec 15, 2020 12 months ago
Coronavirus News: More good news for those sick with the arrogance of the British, Americans and French so called medical ‘experts’ and the clandestine behavior of the governments from these countries in trying to curtail news and developments about the COVID-19 disease to its citizens through the support of wire agencies, mainstream media, social media and also search engines.
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COVID-19 News: British researchers from University College London, Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology & Infectious Disease (CITIID), University of Cambridge, Cambridge University NHS Hospitals Foundation Trust, University of Kent and University of Amsterdam have in a new research discovered the emergence of antibody resistant SARS-CoV-2 variants in a COVID-19 patient who had been tr...
Source: COVID-19 Genetics Dec 14, 2020 12 months ago
COVID-19 Genetics: A new study led by researchers from the Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (CSIR-IGIB), Delhi-India describes the prevalence of single nucleotide variations within a single host, suggesting that this phenomenon seems to be much more common in the Indian population, and that this may lead to the emergence of many variants in the population. Importantly the variants may...
COVID-19 Tips: A new study by researchers from University of Massachusetts and Brown University-Rhode Island utilizing a new series of computational fluid dynamics simulations suggests that, for two people who must travel together in the same passenger car, the safest way to prevent possible transmission of COVID-19 in such a risky, enclosed environment is to do so with all four windows ...
Source: COVID-19 Research Dec 14, 2020 12 months ago
A new COVID-19 research study by scientists from the Rockfeller University-New York, New York University School of Medicine and Heidelberg University-Germany have identified a single protein that appears necessary for the COVID-19 virus to reproduce and spread to other cells.
The current COVID-19 pandemic has claimed the lives of over 1.61 million individuals worldwide. The causativ...
Source: Vaccine Updates Dec 14, 2020 12 months ago
Vaccine Updates: America has just crossed the 300,000 COVID-19 deaths milestone a few minutes ago and more than 16.2 million Americans have been infected with the COVID-19 while in the United Kingdom, the situation is just as bad but we are unable to report any figures as most official figures are unreliable as a result as a result of a concerted effort by certain authorities to mask the real...
Source: COVID-19 Reinfections Dec 14, 2020 12 months ago
More cases of COVID-19 reinfections are emerging around the world in recent months and researchers are keenly interested in such cases which are still considered rare but still on the rise. Many experts are speculating in the coming months, we will witness more reinfections.
While we now have medically documented cases of COVID-19 reinfections published in a variety of journals, the mains...
Source: World COVID-19 News Dec 13, 2020 12 months ago
World COVID-19 News: The COVID-19 crisis is escalating exponentially with the total COVID-19 deaths now crossing the 1.6 million milestone and reaching more than 1,607,900 as of Sunday (1700hrs Bangkok).
The total number of global COVID-19 infections has now reached more than 71.8 million.
The projections for total deaths and infections by the 31st Of December 2020 is that we will ...
Source: Ivermectin and COVID-19 Dec 13, 2020 12 months ago
Ivermectin to treat COVID-19 in various stages of the disease is turning to be a more viable and proven option despite strong opposition from groups with vested interest in America and Europe.\
This time, a double blind, placebo- controlled randomized clinical trial tested the efficacy of the drug to treat mild conditions of the disease and to see how it prevents high viral loads, how it prevente...
COVID-19 News: A Post-mortem study by ophthalmologist and researchers from the Center for Vision and Eye Banking Research, Eversight-Cleveland, Wayne State University-Detroit, Rush University-Chicago and the University of Michigan have shockingly found the prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus in eye ocular tissues.
These findings were of a concern and could have varied implications.
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