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COVID-19 Research: Study Shows That SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus Hundreds Of Times More Deadly For Individuals Over 60 Than Those Under 40

Source: COVID-19 Research Sep 11, 2020 3 years ago

COVID-19 Research: A new study by researchers from Indiana University-U.S. led by Professor Dr Nir Menachemi from the university’s School of Public Health has found that the COVID-19 disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is hundreds of times more deadly for individuals over 60 compared to those under 40. The study findings were published in the journal: Annals Of Internal Med...

COVID-19 Warnings: Chinese Study Shows That More Cats Might Have Contracted COVID-19 Than Thought

Source: COVID-19 Warnings Sep 10, 2020 3 years ago

COVID-19 Warnings: Researchers from Huazhong Agricultural University-China led By Dr Meilin Jin, a Professor from the Department of Agricultural Microbiology have in a new study that was based in Wuhan have discovered that more cats might be contracting the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus than first believed. The study also shows that cats are fighting off the virus with naturally deve...

COVID-19 World News: Trump Now Admits That He Knew About Seriousness Of COVID-19 Since February But Wanted To Play It Down To Not Create Panic!

Source: COVID-19 World News Sep 10, 2020 3 years ago

COVID-19 World News: The world is now seeing daily infection rates of average above 240,000 new infections per day for the last 2 months with the record highest that was on the 4th of September with almost 300,683 reported cases. As of today the total number of infections has reached almost 28 million with global COVID-19 deaths amounting to about 904,124. Forget about the recovery rates as we now...

COVID-19 News: UK Study Shows That A Significant Number Of Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients Suffer From Pneumothorax Or 'Punctured Lung'.

Source: COVID-19 News Sep 10, 2020 3 years ago

COVID-19 News: British researchers led by the University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge University NHS Foundation Trust and various British hospitals and medical universities have found that as many as one in 100 patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 will eventually develop a condition known as pneumothorax or 'punctured lung'. The condition was also ...

BREAKING! India’s Randomized Controlled PLACID Trial Shows Convalescent Plasma Does Not Improve Outcome Of Moderate COVID-19 Patients

Source: COVID-19 Convalescent Plasma Sep 10, 2020 3 years ago

COVID-19 Convalescent Plasma: An open-label, parallel-arm, phase II, multicentre, randomized controlled trial (PLACID) in India has shown that the use of convalescent plasma as a therapeutic for moderate COVID-19 patients showed no positive effects and did not improve the outcome of the patients. The study findings are published on a preprint server and are currently being peer reviewed. ...

WARNING! COVID-19 Latest: Researchers Warn Of Epidemic Of Post-COVID-19 Kidney Disease And Study Shows Many Will Die or Never Recover From AKI

Source: COVID-19 Latest Sep 10, 2020 3 years ago

COVID-19 Latest: Researchers from Icahn School of Medicine-Mount Sinai are warning the manifestation of AKI or acute kidney injury is on the exponential rise in hospitalized COVID-19 patients and a high proportion are dying as a result or will never recover from it even after being discharged. The research findings are published in Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. https://ja...

Australian COVID-19 Research Indicates That Multi-Organ Damage Is Involved And That Metabolite Signature Could Be Used For Diagnostics

Source: COVID-19 Research Sep 10, 2020 3 years ago

A new COVID-19 Research by scientist from Murdoch University-Australia led by Professor Dr Jeremy K. Nicholson and Professor Dr Elaine Holmes have discovered that by comparing lipoproteins and metabolites in the blood of COVID-19 patients and healthy subjects, not only are signs of multi-organ damage apparent but a distinct metabolite signature was observed in COVID-19 patients that could be furth...

Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome (MIS-C) Could Be Triggered By High Antiviral Antibody Levels In COVID-19 Infected Children

Source: Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome or MIS-C Sep 09, 2020 3 years ago

Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome or MIS-C could be triggered by high antiviral antibody levels in COVID-19 Infected Children according to researchers from at Emory University School of Medicine and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta. The study team said that measuring blood antibody levels against SARS-CoV-2 may distinguish children with multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C), ...

Anxiety and Stress: Study Shows That COVID-19 Related Anxiety and Stress Cannot Be Beaten By Exercise

Source: Anxiety and Stress Sep 09, 2020 3 years ago

Anxiety and Stress: Researchers from Washington State University have found in a new study that exercise which typically helps by reducing anxiety and stress is unable to help with COVID-19 related mental issues. Surprisingly in a study of twins led by the study team, individuals who reported increasing their physical activity after the start of COVID-19 stay-at-home orders reported highe...

COVID-19 Alerts: Buyers Warned To Beware Of Buying COVID-19 Home Testing Kits Online Via Social Media Sites And Dodgy Websites

Source: COVID-19 Alerts Sep 09, 2020 3 years ago

COVID-19 Alerts: According to a new UK study by Universities of Warwick and Birmingham, home-testing kits sold online in the UK, US and elsewhere in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis were provided with incomplete and in most cases, misleading information on how accurate they were. Worst till there were reports from other regulatory bodies, medical institutions and consumer boards that some...

COVID-19 Immunity Short-Lived For Those Who Are Asymptomatic Or Had Mild Symptoms. Doubts Raised About Ability Of Vaccines To Really Work

Source: COVID-19 Immunity Sep 09, 2020 3 years ago

COVID-19 Immunity is short-lived for those who had mild symptoms when they were first infected with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus or were asymptomatic according to a new study by Chinese researchers from the Army Medical University in Chongqing led by Dr Ye Lilin, a leading Immunologist from the University’s Institute of Immunology. The study also indicates that the absence of the key ...

BREAKING NEWS! Phase 3 Study Of Oxford’s And AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 Vaccine AZD1222 Immediately Stopped Due To Suspected Adverse Reactions

Source: Sep 09, 2020 3 years ago

Vaccine-COVID-19: It was announced the last few hours that the large phase 3 clinical trial of the COVID-19 vaccine AZD1222 developed by the University of Oxford and Astrazenaca was stopped in the last 24 hours and put on hold as a result of reported serious adverse reactions. The sudden stoppage affected numerous testing sites globally especially in the United States and United Kingdom a...

Drugs And COVID-19: NSAIDs Such As Ibuprofen And Diclofenac Does Not Worsen COVID-19 Disease Or Cause Severity According to Latest Danish Study

Source: Drugs And COVID-19 Sep 09, 2020 3 years ago

Drugs And COVID-19: Danish researchers led by Dr Anton Pottegård of the University of Southern Denmark along with other scientists from Aarhus University Hospital and the Danish Medicines Agency have in a new study found that the use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), such as ibuprofen and diclofenac, is not associated with any adverse effects in people who have tested p...

COVID-19 News: Research Shows That Elevated Clotting Factor V (Proaccelerin) Levels Linked To Severe Outcomes In Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients

Source: COVID-19 News Sep 09, 2020 3 years ago

COVID-19 News: Researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)-U.S. have in a new study shown that the blood clotting protein factor V plays a very critical role in the outcomes of hospitalized COVID-19 patients. Factor V (pronounced factor five) is a protein of the coagulation system, sometimes referred to as proaccelerin or labile factor. In contrast to most other coagul...

Anti-Aging News: Hormone Ghrelin Can Prevent Sarcopenia And Restore Muscle Loss In The Elderly According to Italian Study

Source: Anti-Aging News Sep 08, 2020 3 years ago

Anti-Aging News: A new study involving a collaboration of Italian researchers from 11 medical universities and institutes and also the Stem Cell Institute At Leuven-Belgium indicates that the hormone, ghrelin, may help protect the elderly population from muscle loss. The study which involved administering a particular form of ghrelin to older mice saw muscle mass and strength being restor...

COVID-19 Second Wave: People Urged To Start Preparing For Impending COVID-19 Second Wave Which Is Going To Be Catastrophic

Source: COVID-19 Second Wave Sep 08, 2020 3 years ago

COVID-19 Second Wave: Before anyone accuse us of fear mongering, first look at some simple facts…..when the COVID-19 pandemic first broke out, it started with a couple of hundred infected individuals that caused the virus to spread worldwide. Today despite border controls or closures, we have millions of people worldwide who are infected and millions more in our midst that are asymptomatic....

BREAKING! HIV News: Antibiotics Called Pleicomacrolides Allows Immune System To Kill HIV Infected Cells According to University Of Michigan Study

Source: HIV News Sep 08, 2020 3 years ago

HIV News: Researchers from University of Michigan Health System have discovered that a class of antibiotics called pleicomacrolides allows the immune system to kill HIV infected cells by inhibiting the Nef proteins. The research finds are published in the Journal of The Proceedings of the National Academy Of Sciences of The United States Of America (Concanamycin A counteracts HIV-1 Nef to...

BREAKING! COVID-19 Gut Infection Remains Even After The Virus Is Cleared from Respiratory System. Stool Testing Might Be More Accurate Than Nasal Swabs

Source: COVID-19 Gut Sep 08, 2020 3 years ago

COVID-19-Gut: A new study by researchers from the Chinese University of Hong Kong has found that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus may continue to infect and replicate in the digestive tract after clearing in the airways. https://www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk/en/press_detail.php?id=3356 It was also observed that COVID-19 patients have active and prolonged gut viral infection, even in the absence of gastro...

Diagnostics-COVID-19: UK Biotech Firm Avacta Launches Laboratory SARS-CoV-2 ELISA Test

Source: Diagnostics-COVID-19 Sep 08, 2020 3 years ago

Diagnostics-COVID-19: UK based biotech firm Avacta Group plc ,the developer of Affimer® biotherapeutics and reagents has announced the launch of an ultra-sensitive ELISA laboratory test for the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein to support global research efforts into the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that causes COVID-19. Dr Alastair Smith, Avacta’s chief executive ELISAS or enzyme l...

Drugs-COVID-19: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Suggest Using PI3K/mTOR And Topoisomerase Inhibitors To Reduce ACE2 Expression And COVID-19 Risk

Source: Drugs-COVID-19 Sep 08, 2020 3 years ago

Drugs-COVID-19: Researchers from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center-New York in a new study suggest that using drugs such as PI3K/mTOR And Topoisomerase inhibitors reduces ACE2 expression and reduces risk and an individual’s susceptibility to the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that causes the COVID-19 disease. As ACE2 are the main and first receptors that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus uses...

COVID-19 Diagnostics: Icahn Researchers Advocate Using D-Dimer As A Biomarker For COVID-19 Mortality

Source: COVID-19 Diagnostics Sep 08, 2020 3 years ago

COVID-19 Diagnostics: Researchers from Icahn School of Medicine-Mount Sinai in a new study have found that D-Dimers, a fragment protein produced by the breakup of fibrin clots can be used as a biomarker to determine which patients are at the risk of dying. Information such as this which predicts a COVID-19 patient’s risk of mortality is useful in designing clinical treatment protoco...

Influenza Vaccinations And COVID-19: Canadian Study Shows That Live Attenuated Influenza Vaccine (LAIV) Helps To Certain Degree For COVID-19

Source: Influenza Vaccinations And COVID-19 Sep 07, 2020 3 years ago

Influenza Vaccinations And COVID-19: A new study by Canadian researchers from Laval University and McGill University show that live attenuated influenza vaccine (LAIV) can offer a certain degree of protection against the COVID-19 disease compared to inactivated influenza vaccines (IIV) containing three or four variants. The study findings also suggest that inactivated influenza vaccines II...

BREAKING! Chinese Study Confirms SARS-CoV-2 Transmission Via Frozen Seafood Such As Salmon, Virus Can Survive For Days And Is Still Infectious!

Source: SARS-CoV-2 Transmission Via Frozen Food Sep 07, 2020 3 years ago

SARS-CoV-2 Transmission Via Frozen Food: A new research by Chinese researchers from the South China Agricultural University-Guangzhou, Institute of Animal Health-Guangdong and Fudan University-Shanghai has confirmed that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is able to survive on seafood such as salmon for up to 8 days at 4 degrees Celsius which is the temperature of most frozen storage facilities for seafoo...

COVID-19 Next Generation Vaccines: Elicio Therapeutics Launching Clinical Trials Of Its ELI-005 Immunotherapy Based Lymph Node Targeting Vaccine

Source: COVID-19 Next Generation Vaccines Sep 07, 2020 3 years ago

COVID-19 Next Generation Vaccines: Cambridge based Elicio Therapeutics has developed a next generation COVID-19 vaccine ELI-005 that is expected to start initial clinical trials soon. Unlike most of the current genetic based vaccines under development or in phase 3 trials, this lymph node-targeting vaccine is composed of an adjuvant developed using the company’s Amphiphile technology and the...

India COVID-19-Coronavirus News: Documented Reinfections Emerging In India, Vaccines And Antibodies Being Questioned, Record 94,000 Cases In 24 Hours

Source: India COVID-19-Coronavirus News Sep 07, 2020 3 years ago

India COVID-19-Coronavirus News: India reported its fourth documented case of COVID-19 reinfection in the IT city Bengaluru on Sunday. Someone Should Really Show Him How To Wear A Mask Correctly The patient, a female aged 27 years from the southern Indian city who got recovered from an initial infection from SARS-CoV-2 in July, has tested positive again for the virus. The confirmation of ...

United Kingdom And Israel Sees Huge Spikes In New Coronavirus Cases

Source: United Kingdom And Israel COVID-19 News Sep 07, 2020 3 years ago

United Kingdom reported almost 3,000 new coronavirus cases over 24 hours, a level not seen since late May according to health authorities on Sunday. Also it was reported that two more people had died after testing positive over the past 28 days, bringing Britain’s overall death toll to 41,551, Europe's highest. Also, 2,990 new cases were recorded, significantly higher tha...

Herbs For COVID-19: Phytochemical Called Tryptanthrin Extracted From Leaves Of Strobilanthes Cusia Plant Shows Promise As Antiviral For SARS-CoV-2

Source: Herbs For COVID-19 Sep 07, 2020 3 years ago

Herbs For COVID-19: A number of studies are now emerging showing that the phytochemical Tryptanthrin extracted from the leaves of the Strobilanthes Cusia plant also known as Assam Indigo or Chinese Rain Bell has potential efficacy as an antiviral against the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus which causes the deadly COVID-19 disease. Scientifically known as Strobilanthes Cusia, the plant blooms ...

Proton Pump Inhibitors (PPIs) Increases Risk Of Fatty Liver Disease By Disrupting Gut Microbiome Balance According To Korean Study

Source: Proton Pump Inhibitors or PPIs Sep 06, 2020 3 years ago

Proton pump inhibitors or PPIs which already have a bad reputation due to various numerous medical and health complications associated with it now has another new complication associated with its use ie risk of developing fatty liver disease https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/ppis-or-acid-reflux-drugs-affects-cognitive-abilities-of-breast-cancer-survivors https://www.thailandmed...

COVID-19 Research By German Scientists Shows That SARS-Cov-2 Paralyzes Cytotoxic And Metabolic Functions Of Immune Cells

Source: COVID-19 Research Sep 06, 2020 3 years ago

COVID-19 research by German scientists from the University of Tuebingen shows that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus basically paralyzes the cytotoxic and metabolic functions of the human host immune cells which leads to disease severity and progression. The study findings are published on a preprint server and are currently being peer-reviewed. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.09.04...

Australia’s COVID-19 Lockdown For Melbourne Extended By Another Two Weeks

Source: Australia COVID-19 Sep 06, 2020 3 years ago

The COVID-19 lockdown in the Australian second-biggest city of Melbourne has been extended by another two weeks according to government and health officials who said that new cases had not dropped enough to prevent another surge. An Australian Protester In Melbourne. Australians in Melbourne were due to exit a harsh six-week lockdown next weekend but face continued restrictions for months...

Thailand COVID-19 News: 6 New Imported Cases Of Which 3 Are Reinfections! Opening Of Phuket To Foreigners Delayed, Phangnga Imposes Strict Measures

Source: Thailand COVID-19 News Sep 06, 2020 3 years ago

Thailand COVID-19 News: 6 new COVID-19 cases were reported in Thailand today (Sunday, 6th September) of which three could be COVID-19 reinfections! Westerners Not Wearing Mask Still A Common Sight In Thailand The CCSA or Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration Thailand said that of the 6 cases, 3 were Thai male nationals who had been previously infected in Singapore but had sin...

Rare COVID-19 Antibody Development In Cancer Patients Observed In German Study

Source: COVID-19 Antibody Sep 06, 2020 3 years ago

COVID-19 antibody immunity and virus neutralizing capabilities will be critical to control the anticipated worsening of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic however already emerging studies are indicating that there could be many complications and disappointments although numerous pharmaceutical and biotech companies along with certain governments are trying to conceal these news in order to either profit from...

America COVID-19 News: Universities and Colleges In United States Are The Latest COVID-19 Hotspots And Becoming A National Chaos

Source: America COVID-19 News Sep 06, 2020 3 years ago

America COVID-19 News: COVID-19 cases are rising in the various campuses of U.S. colleges and universities, leading authorities to react in a vast array of ways including reverting back to classes going online and a sudden rise of disciplinary actions and dismissals as school authorities try to maintain control in the campuses. It was found that most of the students breaking social distan...

BREAKING! Narsoplimab May Prevent And Treat COVID-19 Severity By Halting Complement Cascade Says Researchers

Source: Narsoplimab And COVID-19 Sep 06, 2020 3 years ago

Narsoplimab And COVID-19: Researchers are now saying that treatments for COVID-19 may be focusing on at the wrong elements of the disease based on emerging data from Bergamo, Italy, the epicenter of the pandemic in Europe. Italian researchers realized, as they combed through the data, that COVID-19 is an endothelia injury rather than a pulmonary event and that stopping the complement casc...

World COVID-19 News: Record COVID-19 Cases In Last 24 Hours Totaling 299,185, Total Global Deaths Now: 876,235, Millions More Expected To Die Soon

Source: World COVID-19 News Sep 05, 2020 3 years ago

World COVID-19 News: The Global COVID-19 pandemic is not showing any signs of slowing down, on the contrary tell-tale signs are indicating that it is going to get worse and that a real second wave is fast approaching. In the last 24 hours the world saw its highest record of daily reported new COVID-19 infections of 299,185 cases. The total global deaths from the COVID-19 disease is now 87...

Coronavirus Cases In India Crosses Four Million And Indian Travellers Becoming Human Vectors That Are Spreading The Disease Elsewhere

Source: Coronavirus Cases In India Sep 05, 2020 3 years ago

India coronavirus cases have crossed the 4 million mark on Saturday as the country also reported its record highest number of COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours which was said to be 86,430 cases. India is reported to be behind the United States which has more than 6.3 million cases and Brazil which has more than 4.1 million cases. However many Indian experts and medical profession...

BREAKING! COVID-19 Research: Latest Study Shows That Cytokine Storms Are NOT The Cause Of Severity Or Disease Progression In COVID-19

Source: COVID-19 Research Sep 05, 2020 3 years ago

COVID-19 Research: A new study by researchers from Radboud University Medical Center-Netherlands questions as to whether it is really to assume that cytokine storms are truly causing disease severity in the case of COVID-19 as new emerging data questions the unproven hypothesis. In the study it was observed that although IL-6 levels are elevated in severe COVID-19, they are lower than lev...

COVID-19 Alerts: Texas Study Shows Children’s Hearts Severely Damaged By Post-COVID-19 Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome (MIS-C)

Source: COVID-19 Alerts Sep 05, 2020 3 years ago

COVID-19 Alerts: Researchers from Texas Children's Hospital-Houston, University of Texas Health Science Center-San Antonio and Georgetown University-Washington have discovered in a new study that the multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C), linked to COVID-19, damages the heart to such an extent that some children will need lifelong monitoring and interventions. The numb...

Yale Study Discover That Common Cold Caused By Rhinovirus Combats Influenza And Needs To Be Studied If It Could Do The Same For COVID-19

Source: Common Cold-COVID-19 Sep 05, 2020 3 years ago

Common Cold-COVID-19: Researchers from Yale University School of Medicine have discovered that the Rhinovirus which causes most of the common colds can prevent the flu virus from infecting airways by jumpstarting the body's antiviral defenses. The study findings help answer a the strange phenomena surrounding the 2009 H1N1 swine flu pandemic in which an expected surge in swi...

Unconventional T Cells Known As Mucosal-Associated Invariant T (MAIT) And Invariant Natural Killer T (Inkt) Cells That Play A Role In COVID-19 Severity

Source: COVID-19 And Unconventional T Cells Sep 04, 2020 3 years ago

French researchers have discovered that a class of immune cells known as unconventional T cells (uT cells) plays a role in the progression of COVID-19 disease into its severity forms. Furthermore it was proposed that these unconventional T Cells could be also used as biomarkers to determine COVID-19 severity risks. So called unconventional T cells are a diverse class of immune c...

Study Confirms That D614G Spike Mutation Increases Infectivity Of SARS-CoV-2 Contrary To So Called Comments From Singaporean ‘Experts’

Source: D614G Mutation Sep 04, 2020 3 years ago

D614G Mutation: According to a new study by researchers from University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston-Texas, the mutation of the spike proteins of the new strain D614G has indeed made the new strain more infectious. This new study also reaffirms other previous studies about the new D614 strain being more infectious contrary to some so called Singaporean ‘experts’ making comments t...

Fatty-Liver Disease Increases Risk Of COVID-19 Hospitalization But Majority Do Not Even Know They Have Fatty Liver Disease

Source: COVID-19 And Fatty Liver Disease Sep 04, 2020 3 years ago

COVID-19 And Fatty Liver Disease: Researchers from the University of Minnesota and John Hopkins School of Medicine in a new observational study reveal that individuals with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and steatohepatitis have increased odds of hospitalization due to coronavirus disease (COVID-19); conversely, metabolic surgery was found to be protective against the admission of inf...

Metformin Associated With Higher Incidence Of Acidosis, But Not Mortality In COVID-19 Infected Individuals With Pre-Existing Type 2 Diabetes

Source: COVID-19 And Metformin Sep 04, 2020 3 years ago

COVID-19 And Metformin: A new study comprising researchers from China, America and UK have shown that metformin as a diabetic drug for COVID-19 patients with type 2 diabetes was associated with higher incidence of acidosis which could lead to kidney complications but it was not associated with higher mortality rates. The study findings were published in the journal: Cell Metabolism https:...

BREAKING! COVID-19 Causing An Unprecedented Heart Crisis. All Recovered Patients Urged To Go For Heart Screenings Even Asymptomatic Individuals

Source: COVID-19-Heart Sep 04, 2020 3 years ago

COVID-19-Heart: Despite early reports and studies that showed the heart was affected by a variety of ways by the SARS-CoV-2 infection including just recent studies that showed the SARS-CoV-2 was able to attack the heart tissues directly and despite so many numerous articles that that showed that the emerging impact of the COVID-19 on heart health, in the last few days doctors and researchers are r...

Thailand News: Compulsory COVID-19 Insurance For All Foreign Visitors To Thailand Of Up To 3.2 Million Baht Coverage

Source: Thailand News Sep 03, 2020 3 years ago

Thailand News: Thailand will soon impose a compulsory COVID-19 insurance for all foreign visitors to the Kingdom as the country starts to open up the country gradually starting next month. In was reported in the local media that a spokesman for Thailand’s State Insurance Commission said all foreign arrivals into the Kingdom will need to have insurance cover for COVID-19 starting wit...

BREAKING! COVID-19 Pediatrics: Study Shows That Kids Can Have The SARS-Cov-2 Coronavirus And The Antibodies Simultaneously

Source: COVID-19 Pediatrics Sep 03, 2020 3 years ago

COVID-19 Pediatrics: Researchers from the Children’s National Hospital in Washington DC in a new study on the kinetics of viral clearance and antibody production across age groups in SARS-CoV-2 infected children found that the virus and the corresponding antibodies can co-exists simultaneously raisng lots of questions and possible implications. The study is available on a preprint f...

COVID-19 ‘Bradykinin Storm’ Hypothesis Gaining Stronghold Among Medical Community And Offers New Avenues For Treatments Using Already-Approved Drugs

Source: COVID-19 Bradykinin Storms Sep 03, 2020 3 years ago

By detailed analysis of data on more than 40,000 genes , 17,000 genetic and 2.5 billion genetic combinations samples linked to COVID-19, researchers from Oak Ridge National Lab in Tennessee have managed by using the world’s second fastest computer called the Summit supercomputer have come up with a hypothesis as to how the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus affects the human host dubbed the &...

COVID-19 Research Confirms Corticosteroids Improves Survival Rate Of Patients Infected With SARS-CoV-2 In Critical Conditions

Source: COVID-19 Research Sep 03, 2020 3 years ago

A new COVID-19 Research study published the JAMA Journal that involved an international collaboration of huge magnitude has shown that widely available corticosteroids improved the survival rates of COVID-19 patients experiencing severity and in critical conditions. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2770279 Researchers and medical experts pooled data from 121 hospitals in ...

Harvard Study Shows No Link Between Personal Use Of Permanent Hair Dyes And Cancers Or Cancer Mortality In Women

Source: Cancer And Hair Dyes Sep 03, 2020 3 years ago

A cohort study by researchers from Harvard Medical School on women in the United States who use permanent hair dye products to color their hair at home has found that most do not experience greater risk of most cancers or greater cancer related mortality. The study findings were published in the British Medical Journal. https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m2942 Although the study f...

Elevated Plasmin Levels In Individuals With Comorbidities A Risk Factor For COVID-19 Susceptibility. Tranexamic Acid Can Help By Targeting Plasmin

Source: COVID-19 And Plasmin Sep 03, 2020 3 years ago

COVID-19 Researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham in an attempt to answer a question as to why the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus more dangerous in individuals with comorbidities have managed to propose a hypothesis that an extracellular protease called plasmin might be responsible for aiding the accelerating the virus activities at the furin sites. The team also proposed that the widely a...

BREAKING! UN AND WHO Finally Admits That The New Polio Outbreak In Sudan And Elsewhere In Africa Is Caused By A Oral Polio Vaccine Gone Wrong

Source: Polio Vaccine Sep 02, 2020 3 years ago

Vaccines are basically meant to protect individuals against a disease but in some cases the things could go wrong and backfire especially when proper studies are not conducted and things are expedited over monetary concerns. The WHO or World Health Organization finally admitted that a new polio outbreak in Sudan is linked to an ongoing vaccine-sparked epidemic in Chad, a week after ...

Researchers from UK and Taiwan Develop New COVID-19 Vaccine RBD-SpyVLP Using Virus-Like Particle With Promising Results In Animal Studies

Source: COVID-19 Vaccine Sep 02, 2020 3 years ago

COVID-19 Vaccine researchers from UK and Taiwan have demonstrated the potential of a new candidate vaccine called RBD-SpyVLP against the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus in animal models. In vivo trials involving animal models such as mice and pigs, low doses of the vaccine triggered a potent neutralizing antibody response that was stronger than the response induced by serum taken from patients who...

Thailand Coronavirus News: Thailand Records 100 Days Without Local COVID-19 Cases or Transmissions. New Cases Are Foreigners Or Overseas Returnees

Source: Thailand Coronavirus News Sep 02, 2020 3 years ago

Thailand Coronavirus News: Thailand celebrated its 100 Days without any local COVID-19 cases or transmissions. The country has been lucky as it was only exposed to the milder strains of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus since the epidemic plus it is speculated that due to epigenetic changes as a result of the excessive usage of herbs in Thai cuisines and dietary habits, Thais have developed a robust and ...

Scientists At Odds On What’s Causing Diabetes In COVID-19 Patients As Two Studies Show That ACE-2 Is Not Expressed In Pancreatic Beta Cells

Source: COVID-19 And Diabetes Sep 02, 2020 3 years ago

COVID-19 related diabetes being found in SARS-CoV-2 infected patients who were previously healthy and never had the disease before is causing a dilemma among the medical community as studies are showing that ACE-2 expression is not found in the pancreatic beta cells although it is found in other areas of the pancreas and to date no SARS-CoV-2 virus particles were ever detected in the pancreas...

New Study Of Incident Of COVID-19 Spread On Public Bus In China Offers Fresh Evidence That Novel Coronavirus Can Spread In The Air

Source: COVID-19 Spread Sep 02, 2020 3 years ago

A new study of COVID-19 spread via airborne mode is published in the journal: JAMA Internal Medicine provides new evidence that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus can simply spread in the air. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2770172 In the incident in China, an infected individual on a poorly ventilated Chinese bus caused the COVID-19 spread to nearly two dozen o...