Source: Anacardic Acid From Cashew Nut Shells Aug 18, 2020 2 years ago
Anacardic Acid, a compound extracted from the shells of Cashew nuts is able to promote the repair of myelin in damaged nerve cells and tissues according to a new research by scientists from Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
The protective sheath surrounding nerves is known as myelin. Damage to this covering or demyelination is a hallmark of multiple sclerosis and numerous other neurol...
Source: COVID-19 Breaking News Aug 18, 2020 2 years ago
COVID-19 Breaking News: A new study by researchers from Institut Pasteur-Paris, Sorbonne Université-Paris, Service de Médecine-Paris, and Genalyte Inc -California confirms that having previous immunity against common coronaviruses (alpha and beta) cannot protect against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).
The news study contrad...
Coronavirus News: A study conducted by scientists from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada, has alarmingly discovered that many species of marine mammal are highly vulnerable to infection with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.
Marine mammal species predicted to be susceptible belong to the IUCN Red list. Many of the species predicted to be susceptible are members of the IUCN Red list of Threa...
Source: Supplements For COVID-19 Aug 17, 2020 2 years ago
Supplements for COVID-19: Nitrate supplements could help the elderly especially in the COVID-19 context with regards to breathing and lung clearance according to researchers from the University of Florida.
Past studies have showed that nitrate supplements help muscles by improving use of calcium in the muscle. This finding that it's additionally affecting power is significant, es...
Source: COVID-19 Research Aug 17, 2020 2 years ago
COVID-19 Research: A new study by researchers from the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Colorado State University have made a breakthrough in discovering that the N proteins of the SARS-C0V-2 coronavirus is able to form biomolecular condensates that helps the spread of virions and viral proteins to nearby healthy host cells.
The study by Dr Eric Ross and Dr Sean Cascari...
Source: South Korea COVID-19 News Aug 17, 2020 2 years ago
South Korea COVID-19 News: South Korea is going through a new surge of COVID-19 cases almost reminiscent of the first time the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus struck in the country.
This time instead of a Christian cult church, a protestant church is involved with thousands of its members linked to a coronavirus cluster in Seoul already made to undergo compulsory quarantine.
On Monday, Sout...
D614G Mutation: Since the original debut of the SAR-CoV-2 coronavirus in December 2019, most of the South-East Asian countries like Thailand, Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam, Myanmar, Cambodia and even others like Hong Kong and Taiwan were spared from the severe symptoms of the disease and high death rates as we were all only exposed to the milder strains of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. A...
Coronavirus News: Tiredness And fatigue are two common complains by individuals who recovered from COVID-19, either from the severe forms of the disease or simply those who had experienced mild and moderate symptoms upon being tested. Muscular pains are also another common accompanying symptom. Even individuals who have tested positive in the early stages and were typically asymptomatic are ...
Source: COVID-19 Heart And Cardiovascular Conditions Aug 17, 2020 2 years ago
COVID-19 Heart And Cardiovascular Conditions: As of Monday (17th August ), the COVID-19 disease is seeing a new surge in infection cases all around the world from South Korea, Japan To France, Germany and Hong Kong. Official figures are now at a total of almost 21.7 million cases (realistic figures could be as high as 10 to 12 times) and the number of COVID-19 deaths globally has now reached more ...
COVID-19 News: Researchers from Chongqing, China have developed membrane nanoparticles from ACE2-rich cells with a potent capability to block potential SARS-CoV-2 infections.
When developing therapeutic drugs or agents, one of the prime targets for researchers is the angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2), the primary receptor for SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoprotein (S1 subunit), whic...
Source: Latest COVID-19 Conspiracy Theory Aug 16, 2020 2 years ago
Latest COVID-19 Theory: We at Thailand Medical News typically avoid any kind unsubstantiated claims or theories and ‘cooked up’ studies and in fact we have been amused at the quality of misinformation that there is on the internet and some even perpetrated by health organizations, regulatory bodies, pharma giants, medical researchers and governments using phenomenal resources and...
Source: COVID-19 Research Aug 16, 2020 2 years ago
COVID-19 Research: Scientist from the University of California, San Francisco found that when the SARS-CoV-2 virus infects human cells, the infected cell grows multi-pronged tentacles that are studded with viral particles. These filaments, called filopodia, reach out to still-healthy neighboring cells, which then bore into the cells’ bodies and infect the healthy cells with vi...
Source: COVID-19 Exclusive Aug 15, 2020 2 years ago
COVID-19 Exclusive: Researchers from University College London-UK, Imperial College London-UK, University of Oxford-UK, Université de la Réunion-France and CIRAD-France have in a detailed study of the various genomic sequencings and mutations of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus discovered a hint that could possibly imply that the virus could indeed be evolving to escape the immunity system...
Source: Aromatherapy Treatments Aug 15, 2020 2 years ago
Aromatherapy Treatments: Of late, there has been many companies in the United States, Britain, Australia, Hong Kong and Singapore making fake claims and disseminating misinformation that the use of essentials and diffusers would help with prevention and treatment of COVID-19.
The public is warned that to date there are no proven medical or scientific studies that demonstrate that any essent...
HIV Drug News: Researchers at the George Washington University in a new study have discovered that Fingolimod, a US FDA-approved immunosuppressive drug used to treat multiple sclerosis flare-ups, may be used to effectively block HIV infection and reduce the latent virus reservoir.
The research findings were published in the journal: PLOS Pathogens. https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/...
Coronavirus News: Sweden’s initial goal to attain herd immunity against the COVID-19 disease by adopting a policy of allowing the controlled spread of Covid-19 viral infection among the population has so far failed to deliver the expected results.
Researchers from the University College of London commenting on recent antibody testing clinical and research findings, in a study paper publis...
Latest COVID-19 News: A team researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham-U.S., Jagiellonian University Medical College-Poland and Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology-Poland postulate that one of the reasons of the anomalous traits of the SARS-CoV-2 versus existing human coronaviruses in terms of the severity of the disease it causes and also the long term health complicatio...
COVID-19 Drugs: Researchers from the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (PME) at the University of Chicago have identified by using state-of-the-art computer simulations, a potential drug candidate that can be repurposed to treat COVID-19.
The drug Ebselen also called PZ 51, DR3305 orSPI-1005, is a synthetic organoselenium drug molecule with anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidant...
Source: COVID-19 Antibodies Aug 15, 2020 2 years ago
COVID-19 Antibodies: According to researchers from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, current SARS-CoV-2 serology assays and serology testing methods are misleading as there are two different types of detectable antibody responses in SARS-CoV-2, each telling a very different story and only truly understanding this may indicate ways to enhance public health efforts against the COVID...
Source: COVID-19 Warnings Aug 15, 2020 2 years ago
COVID-19 Warning: Day by day, we are witnessing once reputable medical institutions, medical journals, medical news sites and researchers simply sinking to lower levels due the search for instant recognition, fame and greed. Worst it is all happening these days mostly in America, a country once renowned for its standards and prowess in the research field but off late has sunk to those similar of t...
Source: U.S. Medical News Aug 14, 2020 2 years ago
U.S. COVID-19 News: The total number of Americans who have died as a result of COVID-19 has now reach 167,360 while the official numbers of Americans who had been infected with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus has now reached about 5.26 million.(The US CDC claims that the real figure could be ten fold!) But what is worrisome is that almost about 17,185 Americans are in critical conditions nationwide wit...
COVID-19 Latest: It was announced today that the New Zealand's government will extend the lockdown of Auckland, its largest city for another 12 days as it tries to stamp out its first domestic coronavirus outbreak in more than three months.
Health authorities said that the outbreak has grown to 30 people and extended beyond Auckland for the first time and they suspect that many more i...
COVID-19 News: Italian researchers from Tor Vergata University-Rome, University of Catania, University of Padua and the Neurological Unit at Garibald Hospital- Catania have in a new study confirmed that SARS-CoV-2 infections also triggers the neurological disease which causes muscle weakening called Myasthenia Gravis in a percentage of COVID-19 patients.
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COVID-19 Drugs: With global death rates now reaching more than 754,000 (168,000 just in America alone) and the official infected cases at more than 22 million, medical researchers are desperate to find drugs and treatment protocols that can at help reduce mortality rates. To date there is no real effective drugs that can really treat COVID-19 effectively (remdesivir ‘s efficacy is now being ...
TB Treatments: New protocols involving the drugs Bedaquiline and Delamanid for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) have shown early effectiveness in 85 percent of patients in a cohort that included many individuals with serious comorbidities that would have excluded them from clinical trials, according to the results of a new international study.
The clinical trial results, based on...
COVID-19 News: Considering that the WHO or World Health Organization got involved and issued statements about the recent Chinese reports on food contaminated by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and that WHO officially claimed that food transmission is not possible was a serious cause of alarm among many. Considering WHO’s track record of fake news and misinformation since the outbreak starting wit...
Source: World Medical News Aug 13, 2020 2 years ago
World Medical News: Authorities of a remote Russian region on Thursday announced that livestock herders and other residents of two districts on the border with Mongolia have to be vaccinated against bubonic plague.
The new order was issued after Mongolia's health ministry said Wednesday that bubonic plague killed a second man in the country's west. It was the l...
Medical Cannabis: Researchers from Ottawa in the largest study of its kind have discovered that children of mothers who reported using cannabis during pregnancy had a 50% increased risk of developing autism spectrum disorder (ASD), compared with children who weren’t exposed to cannabis in utero, even after controlling for confounding factors.
The research findings highlight th...
Source: Masks And COVID-19 Aug 13, 2020 3 years ago
Masks and COVID-19: The U.S.Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently updated its guidelines advising individuals to avoid face masks that have vents or valves as they are not as effective in preventing the spread of COVID-19.
The federal agency said that the purpose of masks is to keep respiratory droplets from reaching others to aid with source control. Masks with o...
Source: U.S. COVID-19 News Aug 13, 2020 3 years ago
U.S. COVID-19 News: Simply forget about the Presidential elections for a moment, forget about Trump or Biden (both as equally hopeless!), forget about the Republicans or Democrats but focus on the sufferings of the American people and the current pandemic and the mess the whole country is in.
To date more than 5.2 Americans have been infected with the SARS-C0V-2 coronavirus with the US CD...
Source: COVID-19 Treatments Aug 13, 2020 3 years ago
COVID-19 Treatments: University Of California-San Francisco scientists have developed a novel approach to halting the spread of SARS-CoV-2 involving an aerosol formulation of nanobodies that are basically antiviral molecules that inhibit the virus.
The research and development lead by graduate student Michael Schoof, along with a team of researchers engineered a completely synthetic...
Source: Medical Innovations - John Hopkins University Aug 13, 2020 3 years ago
Medical Innovations: Researchers from John Hopkins University have developed a new robotic system that allows medical staff to remotely operate ventilators and other bedside machines from outside intensive care rooms of patients suffering from infectious diseases such as COVID-19.
The remotely controlled robotic system is still being tested, but initial trials have demonstrated how i...
Source: Supplements For COVID-19 Aug 13, 2020 3 years ago
Supplements For COVID-19: Quercetin-a common plant based supplement is being viewed by some as a potential adjunct therapy for patients with COVID-19. Medical professionals who support the use of the supplement say it could be one part of a treatment regimen along with interventions like remdesivir or convalescent plasma, and that its over-the-counter availability and relatively goo...
COVID-19 Vaccine: A new vaccine made from a mild virus genetically modified to carry a key gene from the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is effective at preventing pneumonia in mice infected with the COVID-19 virus, according to research findings from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
Co-senior author Dr Michael S. Diamond, MD, PhD, the Herbert S. Gasser Profess...
Source: Ibuprofen And COVID-19 Aug 13, 2020 3 years ago
Ibuprofen And COVID-19: A recent UK-based study conducted during the peak of hospital admissions in Britain from COVID-19 has found that the regular use of painkillers including ibuprofen, naproxen and diclofenac did not increase the risk of mortality from the SARS-CoV-2 infection..
The research findings published in the Journal of Clinical Medicine. https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/9/...
Source: Spain COVID-19 News Aug 12, 2020 3 years ago
Spain COVID-19 News: Spanish health authorities are reporting of a massive spike of fresh COVID-19 cases in the Aragon region, with hospital overflowing and an acute shortage of hospital bed and ICU facilities.
It was reported that the spike in COVID-19 cases started with outbreaks in households in the impoverished working-class neighborhood of Zaragoza, the capital of Aragon.
Dr J...
Source: COVID-19 Research Aug 12, 2020 3 years ago
COVID-19 Research: Scientists from University of Waterloo, McMaster University, University of British Columbia, University of Nottingham, and Okinawa Institute of Science are now challenging previous accepted findings about how the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus affects lungs. It was previously assumed that all entry of SARS-CoV-2 into cells occurs through a receptor on the cell surface, known as ACE...
Source: Latest COVID-19 News Aug 12, 2020 3 years ago
Latest COVID-19 News: European researchers from Univ. Grenoble Alpes-France, Universidad Complutense School of Medicine-Spain and Universita` degli Studi di Milano-Italy have made a shocking discovery that a type of sugar-based receptor on innate immune cells called C-type lectin receptors promotes the entry of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus into other cells that carry the viral receptor, angiotensin-...
Vietnam News: Vietnamese researchers in a study highlights how wild animal trade that increases risk of humans becoming infected by diseases such as Covid-19 are still being conducted in various markets across Vietnam.
Rats Being Sold At A Market In Vietnam, Credit: WCS
In the study, various other coronaviruses were found in animals being sold in 58 out of 70 sites studied in the south of...
Source: COVID-19 Questions Aug 12, 2020 3 years ago
COVID-19 Questions: We continue our series of COVID-19 questions, sometimes posing questions that may sound ‘stupid’ but could provide new insights and challenge researchers for answers around the world so that more specific targeted studies can be conducted with relevant answers.
Of late there has been so much talk of T-Cells and the provision of immunity and protection again...
COVID-19 News: A new study by Spanish researchers explains why certain organs are ‘attacked’ by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus while others are not. Previous studies showed that the ACE-2 receptors played a major role in this but the new research reveals that human protein to protein interactions (PPIs) and also interactions of the SARS-CoV-2 with these PPIs is behind why certain org...
Source: COVID-19 Research Aug 12, 2020 3 years ago
COVID-19 Research: Hyperglycemia or a condition of high blood sugar can aggravate and cause progression to severity in COVID-19 patients according to a new study by researchers from Michigan Medicine-University of Michigan. According to the researchers one of the possible explanations for this is because high sugar levels in the body triggers low inflammation which further aggravates the immunity ...
Source: COVID-19 Immunology Aug 12, 2020 3 years ago
COVID-19 Immunology: A new study by scientists from the School Of Medicine-Stanford University, Emory University-School of Medicine and University of Hong Kong Faculty Of Medicine identified immunological deviations and lapses that appear to highlight the difference between severe and mild cases of COVID-19.
The researchers observed that In PBMCs (Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells) of CO...
Source: Bhutan COVID-19 News Aug 11, 2020 3 years ago
Bhutan COVID-19 News: The remote scenic and tranquil kingdom of Bhutan Bhutan famous for its gross national happiness went into a COVID-19 Lockdown today, marking the first time in its long history that the country has ever gone into a lockdown of such a scale.
Although the Himalayan kingdom has been largely protected from the COVID-19 crisis, a set of events is now worrying officials tha...
Source: Thailand Hospitals And Clinics Aug 11, 2020 3 years ago
Thailand Hospitals And Clinics: The National Health Security Office (NHSO) had announced in mid-July that about eighteen community clinics in Bangkok were found to have embezzled money from the universal healthcare budget and that officials concerned would be duly punished.
However further investigations are still underway as it has emerged that more community clinics are also found to ha...
Source: New Zealand COVID-19 News Aug 11, 2020 3 years ago
New Zealand COVID-19 News: Jacinda Ardern , Prime Minister of New Zealand announced on today that health authorities have found four cases of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus infections in one Auckland household from an unknown source, the first reported cases of local transmission in the country in 102 days.
In this image from a video, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern,
left, and Direct...
Source: COVID-19 Antibodies Aug 11, 2020 3 years ago
COVID-19 Antibodies: A new detailed study by researchers from University of Washington shows that most SARS-CoV-2 antibodies last for about 3 months on the average with the neutralizing antibodies falling fourfold from 30 to 90 days from symptoms onset. However the effectiveness of these antibodies has not been validated as time progresses.
Credit: Lisa Donohue, CoVPN
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Source: COVID-19 Supplements Aug 11, 2020 3 years ago
COVID-19 Supplements: If you thought that buying supplements was easy, think again. As a result of greed and profitability, many manufacturers especially those in Asia will find ways to put in the cheapest ingredient or form and not really focus on the true effectiveness of the product and whether it will truly help the end consumers.
The media has been abuzz recently about the proven ben...
Source: COVID-19 Symptoms Aug 11, 2020 3 years ago
COVID-19 Symptoms: Just as we thought that we have almost heard it all..a case study published in the American Journal of Emergency Medicine that has been peer-reviewed, reports of a rare case in which the patient exhibited persistent hiccups as an unusual symptom of COVID-19. https://www.ajemjournal.com/article/S0735-6757(20)30274-6/fulltext
Although a lot of new studies are emerging rep...
COVID-19 Herbs: From the beginning of the outbreak of the COVID-19 crisis in China, the Chinese health authorities brought in the top TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) experts to develop and test formulations against the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and to treat various stages of the COVID-19 disease. Some were used alone and some were used as adjuvants alongside standard pharmaceuticals including the ...
Source: Thailand Medical News Aug 11, 2020 3 years ago
Thailand Medical: Local media has been reporting that there seems to be no announcements or follow ups from relevant authorities with regards to a case that was reported in July in which the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Division (ATPD) had on the July 15 summoned 10 people suspected of being part of an illegal international surrogacy gang based in Thailand.
Suspects charged In the case
It ...
COVID-19 Rehab: Mayo Clinic medical experts are warning that the long term health effects from COVID-19 are varied and real and that both patients and physicians should pay more attention to these and not assume that it is not COVID-19 related when various medical conditions start manifesting.
Although common symptoms of COVID-19, such as cough, fever and shortness of breath, are now wide...
Neuro-COVID: Dr Natalie C. Tronson, an Associate Professor of Psychology from the University of Michigan in an article in The Conversation warns of potential memory loss and also the possible conditions of dementia as a result of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus effects on the brain.
Many patients suffering from COVID-19 exhibit neurological symptoms, from loss of smell, to delirium, to an...
Source: COVID-19 Biomarkers Aug 10, 2020 3 years ago
COVID-19 Biomarkers: Medical and immunology researchers from the Ragon Institute of Massachusetts General Hospital, MIT and Harvard Medical School, and the University of Washington School of Medicine, have identified immune response markers that, collectively, were able to distinguish between those COVID-19 patients who convalesced from the infection, and those who did not survive the disease.
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Source: COVID-19 Airborne Aug 10, 2020 3 years ago
COVID-19 Airborne: European researchers from University of Twente-Netherlands, Gran Sasso Science Institute-Italy, the University of Rome Tor Vergata-Italy and Max Planck Institute-Germany have published new research findings showing that current information about how far the SARS-CoV-2 particles can travel and also how long they linger in the air is all wrong as the studies show that ...
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