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Source: SARS-CoV-2 Mutations  Dec 19, 2020  4 years 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  4 years 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...
Source: Cancer Drugs  Dec 18, 2020  4 years ago
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...
Source: COVID-19 News  Dec 18, 2020  4 years ago
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...
Source: COVID-19 Drugs  Dec 18, 2020  4 years ago
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  4 years 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  4 years 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  4 years 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 ...
Source: Vaccine News  Dec 17, 2020  4 years ago
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...
Source: COVID-19 News  Dec 17, 2020  4 years ago
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  4 years 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.   ...
Source: Diabetes News  Dec 16, 2020  4 years ago
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 ...
Source: Vaccine News  Dec 16, 2020  4 years ago
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  4 years 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...
Source: Cancer Herbs  Dec 15, 2020  4 years ago
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...
Source: HIV News  Dec 15, 2020  4 years ago
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  4 years 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...
Source: COVID-19 News  Dec 15, 2020  4 years ago
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  4 years 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.  ...
Source: COVID-19 News  Dec 14, 2020  4 years ago
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  4 years 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...
Source: COVID-19 Tips  Dec 14, 2020  4 years ago
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  4 years 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  4 years 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  4 years 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  4 years 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  4 years 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...
Source: COVID-19 News  Dec 13, 2020  4 years ago
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.  ...
Source: COVID-19 Research  Dec 13, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Research: Scientists from University Of California-Irvine have discovered that distant residues modulate the conformational openings in SARS-CoV-2 spike protein.  The researchers also warn that the mutations in these residues could generate new coronavirus strains with different degrees of infectivity and virulence, resulting in future epidemics.    The study team says th...
Source: COVID-19 Genetics  Dec 13, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Genetics: Researchers from the University of Edinburgh have identified potential treatments for COVID-19 after the discovery of five genes associated with the most severe form of the disease. The genes: IFNAR2, TYK2, OAS1, DPP9 and CCR2 partially explain why some individuals become desperately sick with COVID-19, while others are not affected.   According to the study team’s ...
Source: Vaccine News  Dec 13, 2020  4 years ago
Vaccine News: It was officially announced by Peru health authorities on Friday that the government has temporarily suspended clinical trials of a COVID-19 vaccine made by Chinese drug giant Sinopharm after detecting neurological problems in one of its test volunteers.   It was reported that a participant had developed a neurological condition known as Guillain-Barre syndrome.   The Per...
Source: Influenza News  Dec 13, 2020  4 years ago
Influenza News: A new study by researchers from the University of Chicago suggests that an individual’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. The study team found that infection-induced antibodies reacted to non-neutralizing epitopes o...
Source: COVID-19 News  Dec 10, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 News: Doctors and researchers from the pediatric neurology department, Royal London Hospital, Barts Health NHS Trust, Whitechapel-UK have published a new COVID-19 case report in the peer reviewed European Journal of Epilepsy, the Seizure, detailing an alarming  documented case of a patient suffering cortical damage as a result of a SARS-CoV-2 infection.   The case report ...
Source: Herbs For COVID-19  Dec 10, 2020  4 years ago
Herbs For COVID-19: Numerous emerging studies are indicating and suggesting that a phytochemical called eugenol that is extracted from cloves could perhaps be used in a variety of ways to prevent, treat and control SARS-CoV-2 infections ie either as an oral adjuvant or even in terms of nasal and oral sprays or as an inhalant.   Most of the studies were initiated by Thailand Medical News sin...
Source: Thailand Coronavirus News  Dec 10, 2020  4 years ago
Thailand Coronavirus News: Thailand recently announced that it has opened the country to tourist from all countries as long as they have relevant COVID-19 tests prior to boarding and have applied and paid for the relevant visas in their home countries and have signed up for the 14 day prepaid quarantine packages in Thailand coupled with relevant medical insurance and other preconditions.   ...
Source: U.S. Hospitals  Dec 10, 2020  4 years ago
U.S. Hospitals are running short of ICU beds as COVID-19 infection rates are fast climbing. In the last 24 hours, there were 225,441 new COVID-19 cases reported in America while a new record of 3,242 Americans have died from the COVID-19 disease in the last 24 hours. Current hospitalizations have reached 106,920 while more than 24,000 cases are termed as critically ill with more than 8,200 individ...
Source: NeuroCOVID  Dec 10, 2020  4 years ago
NeuroCOVID: A new study by researchers from Boston University Medical Center and Boston University School of Medicine shows that SARS-CoV-2 infections can cause a wide range of neurological complications, even in patients who are not critically ill.   The study was conducted to characterize the breadth of neurologic findings associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection in a diverse group of in...
Source: British Medical Journal  Dec 10, 2020  4 years ago
The British Medical Journal is one of the few credible and untainted medical journals left that believes in real scientific facts and data, ethics, transparency and cannot be manipulated by money as in the case of certain other journals that are literally in the hands of pharmaceutical companies or the U.S. or China governments.   Day by day its seems that the monies of the big pharma compa...
Source: COVID-19 Vaccine News  Dec 09, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Vaccine News: The U.S. FDA has warned that four participants in Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine trials had developed facial paralysis while UK regulators have issued yet another warning that individuals with allergies should avoid the COVID-19 vaccine.   The U.S FDA commenting on the incident of the 4 individuals developing facial paralysis after having the Pfizer’s COVID-19 ...
Source: COVID-19 Alerts  Dec 09, 2020  4 years ago
  COVID-19 Alerts: The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cautioned all medical staff and hospitals that protective face masks containing metal can heat to unsafe temperatures during Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scanning.   Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) uses strong magnets and radio waves (radiofrequency energy) to make pictures of the inside of the body. MRIs hel...
Source: SARS-CoV-2 News  Dec 09, 2020  4 years ago
SARS-Cov-2 News: Scientist from at Gladstone Institutes and the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, in collaboration with scientists at University of California- San Francisco (UCSF) and Synthego Corporation, have identified critical molecular processes in human cells that coronaviruses including the SARS-CoV-2 virus uses to survive.   According to the study team’s abstract, the Coronavirida...
Source: COVID-19-News  Dec 09, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19-News: Medical researchers from the  Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School-New Jersey have reported the first documented case of COVID-19 triggering a recurrence of Guillain-Barré Syndrome , a rare disorder where the body's immune system attacks nerves and can lead to respiratory failure and death.   COVID-19 has been reported to trigger Guillain–Barr&eacu...
Source: Healthcare News  Dec 09, 2020  4 years ago
Healthcare News: According to a new study by researchers from the University of Glasgow-UK, healthcare workers are 7 times as likely to have severe COVID-19 infection as those with other types of 'non-essential' jobs.   The study findings were based on the first UK-wide lockdown and are published online in the peer- reviewed journal Occupational & Environmental Medicine. ht...