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Source: COVID-19 Clinical Care  Aug 16, 2021  3 years ago
COVID-19 Clinical Care: Medical researchers from Heart and Vascular Hospital of Hackensack Meridian Health/Hackensack University Medical Center-New Jersey have in a new study identified the different type of shocks prevalent in COVID-19 patients including Cardiogenic Shocks for better clinical care and  treatment of hemodynamic abnormalities. Hospitalized individuals with serious COVID infec...
Source: COVID-19 Pediatrics  Aug 15, 2021  3 years ago
Despite the lack of proper data, pediatric physicians across the world are now witnessing that kids are being affected badly by the now fast spreading and dominant Delta variant as the amount of kids being hospitalized and exhibiting severe conditions are rising. In countries like Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, UK and even USA, there are not only case increases involving kids but increasing death ...
Source: COVID-19 Drugs-Fluvoxamine  Aug 14, 2021  3 years ago
COVID-19 Drugs: Fluvoxamine, an inexpensive anti-depressant drug is now emerging as a potential candidate to be repurposed to treat COVID-19. Speculations are adrift that Canada might be the first country to approve its usage to treat COVID-19 followed by the United States, India, Brazil and South Africa.   Fluvoxamine, sold under the brand name Luvox among others, is an antid...
Source: ADE and Delta Variant  Aug 13, 2021  3 years ago
A new study by French researchers from Aix-Marseille Université has alarmingly found that ADE or antibody dependent enhancement is indeed occurring in infections with the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant.   The study findings were peer reviewed and published in the Journal of Infections. https://www.journalofinfection.com/article/S0163-4453(21)00392-3/fulltext   ADE or antibody dependent...
Source: COVID-19 Drugs  Aug 13, 2021  3 years ago
Despite so many small randomized clinical trials and observational studies that showed Ivermectin could be used to treat COVID-19 during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, physicians, researchers and individuals should stop attempting to treat COVID-19 with Ivermectin as the drug as no efficacy against most of the new variants that are currently dominating various countries. Thailand Medi...
Source: SARS-Co-2 Iota Variant  Aug 13, 2021  3 years ago
Iota Variant: Alarmingly, a new study by researchers from Columbia University and the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene has found that the SARS-CoV-2 B.1.526 variant increased the risk of mortality for older adults who contracted the virus.   The study also determined the transmission rate, immune escape ability, and infection fatality rate of the B.1.526 variant.   ...
Source: Breakthrough SARS-CoV-2 Infections  Aug 12, 2021  3 years ago
The study findings from a new research by medical scientists from Harvard Medical School’s Massachusetts General Hospital-Boston and Brigham and Women’s Hospital-Boston have alarmingly revealed that patients with systemic autoimmune rheumatic diseases (SARDs) despite receiving full doses of the various COVID-19 vaccines are still prone to breakthrough SARS-CoV-2 infections. Alarmingly ...
Source:Long COVID Updates  Aug 12, 2021  3 years ago
COVID-19-Brain Fog: A new study by researchers from the University of Oxford has found that many non-hospitalized COVID-19 patients will exhibit brain fog for weeks or months after SARS-CoV-2 infection.   The study team intended to explore the lived experience of ‘brain fog’ ie the wide variety of neurocognitive symptoms that can follow COVID-19 infection.   Out of a study g...
Source: COVID-19 And Alcohol  Aug 11, 2021  3 years ago
A new study by researchers from Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington that involved over 1,267 students over the aged of 18 in Southern Indiana showed that high alcohol-consumption increases the risk of SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus infection that causes the COVID-19 disease. The primary aim of the study was to estimate the associations between high-risk alcohol consumption and (1) SARS...
Source: COVID-19-Immunology  Aug 11, 2021  3 years ago
COVID-19-Immunology: American researchers from Dartmouth College-Hanover, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine-Baltimore and the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases,NIH-Bethesda have in a study found that spike-specific FcγR-binding antibodies and IgM are crucial for effective neutralization and effector function of polyclonal responses to SARS-CoV-2. Although antibo...
Source: Thailand Coronavirus News  Aug 11, 2021  3 years ago
Thailand Medical news is issuing this warning that local Thais should not attempt to self-prescribe any drugs that are being currently being studied for drug repurposing to treat COVID-19. Also all Thais should never take any herbs, TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicines), supplements and even over the counter drugs (OTCs) such as NSAIDs without consulting a local Thai doctor first.   Also alway...
Source:   Aug 11, 2021  3 years ago
A new study by researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the Mount Sinai Hospital-New York has found that the protein hypoxia-inducible factor 1 alpha (HIF1α), plays a critical cardioprotective role in COVID-19 patients. The study findings establishes a direct link of cardiac cellular responses to hypoxic stress with matching functional and histological data, serving ...
Source: COVID-19 Clinical Care  Aug 10, 2021  3 years ago
COVID-19 Clinical Care: Researchers and physicians from the University of California-San Diego Health (A trauma hospital) report the clinical manifestation of a young and previously healthy COVID-19 patient developing CNS Lymphocytic Vasculitis.   Central nervous system (CNS) vasculitis typically means that blood vessel walls in the brain and spine are inflamed (swollen).    T...
Source: COVID Nails  Aug 10, 2021  3 years ago
COVID Nails: Numerous studies are indicating that the manifestations of lines and grooves in the fingernails, which the media has labeled as “COVID Nails”is becoming a common occurrence in many COVID-19 recovered patients and could be a possible indicator for those who never got tested and were either asymptomatic or only had mild conditions that they were indeed infected with SARS-CoV...
Source: SARS-CoV-2 Variants  Aug 09, 2021  3 years ago
SARS-CoV-2 Variants: A new study led by researchers from Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai-New York along with scientists from the University of California-San Francisco and Kansas State University warns that the SARS-CoV-2 variants are strategically evolving towards better Furin cleavage efficiency.   Typically for efficient cell entry and membrane fusion, SARS-CoV-2 spike (S) protein...
Source: Long COVID  Aug 09, 2021  3 years ago
Long-COVID: A new study by researchers from the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute-Adelaide, University of Adelaide, Royal Adelaide Hospital and Flinders University-South Australia has revealed that long COVID could be the result of persistent immune disturbances. According to the study team, increasing evidence suggests immune dysregulation in individuals recovering from SARS...
Source: COVID-19 Therapeutics  Aug 09, 2021  3 years ago
COVID-19 Therapeutics: A new research led by scientists from Yale University along with other experts from University of Minnesota and Iowa State University has found that a crucial enzyme known as the Coronavirus 3′–5′ exoribonuclease (ExoN) promotes antiviral resistance hence making many identified drugs such as remdesivir, ivermectin and even identified antiviral phytochemical...
Source: COVID-19 Research  Aug 08, 2021  3 years ago
A new ground breaking study led by oncology researchers from the Medical University of South Carolina has found that individuals with elevated levels of the lipid Sphingosine and a protein that it involved in its production called Acid Ceramidase (AC) in their blood were most likely to become asymptomatic when infected with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. However the study also found that those that h...
Source: Eta Variant  Aug 08, 2021  3 years ago
The ETA variant that debuts from Nigeria and has a typical “scamming” behavior in the sense that it cannot be detected by many present COVID-19 RT-PCR testing platforms is now worrying virologists and experts from around the world as it starts to become more prevalent in circulation and spread.   Thailand Medical News first reported about this variant at that time known as the B....
Source: COVID-19 Drugs  Aug 07, 2021  3 years ago
COVID-19 Drugs: A new mouse based vivo study by researchers from the Scripps Research Institute-California along with scientist from the University of Texas and Sorrento Therapeutics Inc.-California have found that salicylanilides which are active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) found in drugs used to treat tapeworm infestations demonstrated efficacy in terms of inhibiting the SARS-CoV-2 coronav...
Source: COVID-19 Drugs  Aug 07, 2021  3 years ago
COVID-19 Drugs: Scientists from the University of Birmingham and Keele University in the UK and the San Raffaele Scientific Institute in Italy have demonstrated that the licensed cholesterol lowering drug fenofibrate and its active form (fenofibric acid) can significantly reduce SARS-COV-2 infection in human cells in the laboratory. Importantly, reduction of infection was obtained using conce...
Source: COVID-19 Research  Aug 06, 2021  3 years ago
A new study by researchers from various medical and research institutions in China led by scientists from the State Key Laboratory of Virology-Wuhan University has found that it is the N or nucleocapsid proteins of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that is activating the NLRP3 Inflammasomes resulting in hyperinflammation and not the spike proteins. Typically excessive inflammatory responses induced upon...
Source: COVID-19 Herbs And Phytochemicals  Aug 06, 2021  3 years ago
COVID-19 Herbs And Phytochemicals: Yet another review study has emerged that confirms that the phytochemical Thymoquinone found in Nigella Sativa seeds is able to treat COVID-19. Nigella sativa (Black caraway, also known as black cumin, nigella or kalonji) is an annual flowering plant in the family Ranunculaceae, native to Western Asia and also parts of South East Asia including Northern Tha...
Source: Long COVID  Aug 05, 2021  3 years ago
Despite the advent of COVID-19 vaccines, the world is beginning to come to terms that the COVID-19 crisis is not going away any time soon and that it is a losing the battle as more transmissible and potent SARS-CoV-2 variants keep on emerging. Already it is anticipated that from now till next year, more concerning variants are likely to emerge with the anticipated ‘Omega’ variant that ...
Source: COVID-19 And Cytokine Storms  Aug 04, 2021  3 years ago
A new study by researchers from University of Alberta, Edmonton-Canada have discovered that a little known protein called Galectin-9 is responsible for the destructive and often lethal cytokine storms in COVID-19 patients.   Galectin-9 (Gal-9) is an abundant protein in many immune and nonimmune cells. Galectin-9 is a beta-galactoside lectin protein that has important cytoplasmic, intracellul...
Source: Pneumonic Plague   Aug 04, 2021  3 years ago
U.S. Medical News: The U.S. Forest Service has announced urgent warnings that chipmunks in the Lake Tahoe Forest vicinity that near the borders between California and Nevada have been found to be infected with plague that is transmissible to humans. https://www.facebook.com/LakeTahoeUSFS/posts/3965838150211047   https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/efd9ae9cc06a4f6b9d7fb5120def0ca2 The letha...
Source: COVID-19 Drugs  Aug 04, 2021  3 years ago
COVID-19 Drugs: A new in vitro study conducted by researchers from University of Georgia-US and Shahid Beheshti University-Iran has found that the common high pressure drug called Losartan is able to inhibit SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus replication.   Losartan, sold under the trade name Cozaar among others, is a medication mainly used to treat high blood pressure. Losartan belongs to a gr...