Latests Medical News from around the world and also Thailand, bringing you updates, discoveries, studies and findings on various aspects and diseases in the medical world. Most of these articles are not only meant for Doctors In Thailand or Hospitals In Thailand but also for any patients or health conscious individuals wanting to know more.
WHO: Emerging reports are indicting that a COVID-19 cluster has broken out at the World Health Organization headquarters with more than 65 cases of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus infections among staff based at its HQ office, including five individuals who worked on the premises and were in contact with one another. Sources are saying more cases are expected to emerge and that even certain senior exec...
COVID-19 Drugs: A new study by French researchers from Université Claude Bernard, Université de Paris, Sorbonne Université, Hôpital Henri-Mondor, Centre Hospitalier de Vierzon and Centre Hospitalier Métropole Savoie has demonstrated that corticosteroids increases survival rates of elderly severe COVID-19 patients.
The study was designed to assess the effe...
Source: COVID-19 Research Nov 17, 2020 2 years ago
COVID-19 Research: Scientists from University of North Dakota School of Medicine & Health Sciences, University of Nebraska Medical Center and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases have in a new study found that goblet cells are basically the prime targets of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus despite the virus also being able to infect ciliated cells. The study also showed that gob...
COVID-19 Latest: Scientists and immunologists from the VIB Research Center-Belgium, University of Leuven-Belgium and the The Babraham Institute, Cambridge-UK have in a new study that besides confirming what was already revealed in earlier studies that the SARS-CoV-2 not only impairs the human host immune system and causes T-cell Lymphopenia, has now also discovered that the infection causes an inc...
COVID-19 Drugs: A new study by Taiwanese researchers from Chang Gung University, Kaohsiung Medical University, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Ming Chi University of Technology and Puxin Fengze Chinese Medicine Clinic have found that strategies using drugs and therapeutics to target neutrophils help to reduce and treat respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) in severe COVID-19 patients.
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COVID-19 Scams: While the majority of the stupid people are still placing their hopes in COVID-19 vaccines with more ‘bribed’ Western journalists and media still extolling merits on these vaccines, various pharmaceutical and biotech executives from companies like Pfizer, Moderna, Novavax are quickly cashing out on their shares while the going is good.
We even have some media i...
Virus News: Korean Scientist from Konkuk University-Seoul, Yeungnam University-Daegu, Inje University-Seoul, Seoul National University and also experts from University of Colorado Denver-USA have discovered new mutations on the SARS-CoV-2 genome from samples taken from infected Korean COVID-19 patients. The researchers warn that these new mutations can have critical implications on the current COV...
SARS-CoV-2 News: Researchers from University Of Renmin Hospital, Wuhan-China have found in a new study involving ultrasound diagnostic imaging that a high proportion of male COVID-19 patients developed acute testicular infections (22.5%).
The study team enrolled male patients with a confirmed diagnosis of COVID‐19 and performed a bedside ultrasound (US) examination of the scro...
Source: COVID-19 Supplements Nov 15, 2020 2 years ago
COVID-19 Supplements: Various studies are now showing that NAD+ (Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide) plays a key role in the COVID-19 disease and also in long COVID and that NAD+ supplementation can help in a variety of ways
There are already studies showing that individuals who suffer from NAD+ deficiency are at higher risk of mortality when contracting COVID-19. https://www.sciencedirect.com/sci...
Coronavirus News: Even if any of the current COVID-19 vaccines under development is able to offer only short-term protection against certain strains of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus without causing any long term adverse effects such as ADE (Antibody-dependent enhancement) or other issues, the vaccines will need to be constantly reformulated as emerging studies show that the coronaviruses are constant...
Source: COVID-19 Terminology Nov 14, 2020 2 years ago
COVID-19 Terminology: We at Thailand Medical News found that many of our readers had problems understanding certain terminology used often in various articles including terms like mutations, isolates, variants, strains, antigens, antibodies etc and have decided to start a new series to explain certain terminology to readers. As COVID-19 is expected to be with us for the next 10 years of so (forget...
Research News: Researchers from Sainte-Justine University Hospital Research Center-Canada have identified 11 circulating microRNAs in the human body that can be used as biomarkers to determine if a person is suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome or myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME).
Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) is a complex chronic disease, rooted in multi-sy...
COVID-19 Latest: A new study by scientists from the University of Otago-New Zealand, University of Auckland-New Zealand and University of Queensland, Brisbane-Australia have found that individuals with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) may be at an increased risk of death if they develop COVID-19 after becoming infected with SARS-CoV-2.
The study team used data from the UK Biobank. Multivariate-a...
Source: COVID-19 Genetics Nov 13, 2020 2 years ago
COVID-19 Genetics: Scientist from Yale University in a new research have identified genetic variants among people of white British ancestry that may increase the risk of dying from COVID-19.
The study team considered the mortality as the trait of interest and perform a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of data for 1,778 infected cases (445 deaths, 25.03%) distributed by the UK Bi...
Source: Herbs For COVID-19 Nov 13, 2020 2 years ago
Herbs For COVID-19: A Colombian and Peruvian study involving scientist from the University of Antioquia-UdeA-Colombia, Universidad de Antioquia UdeA-Colombia, Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia and Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos-Peru have demonstrated in proper and credible in vitro studies that phytochemicals present in Cat’s Claw (Uncaria Tomentosa) is able to inhibit replicatio...
Source: COVID-19 Discoveries Nov 12, 2020 2 years ago
COVID-19 Discoveries: Researchers from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center-California, Martin-Luther-University, HalleWittenberg-Germany, University of California-Los Angeles, University of Pittsburgh, Boston, Massachusetts General Hospital and Loma Linda University Hospital-California have in a new study discovered a unique t cell receptor repertoire in MIS-C patients commonly associated with superantige...
COVID-19 News: A new record of 10,218 Global COVID-19 deaths was recorded in the last 24 hours bringing the global death tally to 1,285,944.
At the same time number of total Global COVID-19 infections reached 52,208,810 with more than 613,840 new Global COVID-19 infections in the last 24 hours.
In America sadly the numbers are fast rising with total number of COVID-19 infections now reaching 1...
Source: SARS-CoV-2 Viral Proteins Nov 12, 2020 2 years ago
SARS-CoV-2 Viral Proteins: Canadian scientist from the University of Calgary, University of Ottawa, University of British Columbia and Dalhousie University have in a new study found that coronaviruses’ viral proteins including those of the SARS-CoV-2 virus is able to disrupt so called processing bodies (PBs) in the human host resulting in the modifications of interferon and proinflammatory c...
Source: COVID-19 Genomics Nov 12, 2020 2 years ago
COVID-19 Genomics: Scientists and genomic specialists from the Academia Sinica-Taiwan, the Institute for Comparative Genomics-U.S, Technical University of Munich-Germany, University of Wisconsin-Madison, SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University-U.S, University of California-Berkeley and University of California-Los Angeles have in a new study discovered a hidden novel overlapping...
Source: COVID-19 Immunogenomics Nov 12, 2020 2 years ago
COVID-19 Immunogenomics: Japanese scientist from Tohoku University have found that human editing enzymes are likely behind a type of mutation in the COVID-19 virus that stimulates the release of pro-inflammatory molecules called cytokines by immune cells in the body.
SARS-CoV-2 infection induces severe pneumonia and is the cause of a worldwide pandemic. Coronaviruses, including SARS-CoV-2...
COVID-19 Latest: A new study led by researchers from Icahn School of Medicine-Mount Sinai with the support of scientist from University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, University of Alberta-Canada, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, La Jolla- California have uncovered yet another way the SARS-CoV-2 is able to evade human host immu...
Source: U.S. COVID-19 News Nov 11, 2020 2 years ago
U.S. COVID-19 News: America on Tuesday far exceeded its previous daily record of new COVID-19 cases, adding 201,961 cases in 24 hours, according to the tally compiled by Johns Hopkins University.
According to health authorities the high number was partly due to data delayed over the weekend, took total cases in the US to 10,238,543, with a total of 239,858 deaths, as of 11:55 pm (0455 GMT...
Source: Latest COVID-19 News Nov 11, 2020 2 years ago
Latest COVID-19 News: Mayo Clinic and University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have discovered in a new study that COVID-19 can result in cardiomyocytes to fuse resulting in cardiac damage coupled with disruption of the heart electrical rhythm.
The study team made this discovery after an autopsy of a COVID-19 patient who died of sudden cardiac arrest found the virus had infected her he...
Source: SARS-CoV-2 Mutations Nov 11, 2020 2 years ago
SARS-CoV-2 Mutations: Researchers from Washington University-St. Louis, Harvard Medical School and Mayo Clinic in a new study using a variety of monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) to understand the mutational landscape of resistance in the SARS-CoV-2 receptor-binding domains (RBD) have discovered 48 new mutations resistant to antibodies including 27 that are circulating in humans.
More worrisom...
Coronavirus News: Researchers from McMaster University, Ontario-Canada have revealed that platelet activating immune complexes are the contributing causes to coagulation disorders associated with COVID-19 seen in severe or critically ill COVID-19 patients.
Thrombosis is a prominent feature of COVID-19 and often occurs in patients who are critically ill; however, the mechanism is unclear. ...
Source: COVID-19 Mutations Nov 10, 2020 2 years ago
COVID-19 Mutations: A new international study involving researchers from United Kingdom, United States, Switzerland, Australia and Italy from more than 23 institutions and entities are warning that more variants or strains that can evade human host immune response can emerge as a result of mutations in the spike proteins. One such spike protein mutation known as N439K is already becoming a major c...
Vaccine News: Another latest development in the trillion dollar COVID-19 vaccine sector that is plagued with scams, lies, cover-ups and greed as Brazil announces a sudden suspension of all clinical trials involving the Chinese COVID-19 vaccine called Coronavac made by Sinovac Biotech.
24 hours ago, Brazil's health regulator said it had suspended clinical trials of a Chinese-developed ...
COVID-19 Vaccine: American headquartered pharmaceutical giant Pfizer spend a fortune on a PR conference and paying off numerous unethical media writers and media to do an elaborate piece about its vaccine which it claims is more than 90 percent effective. In the last few hours its stocks were rallying and God knows who is going to make millions but the key issue is that there were no published stu...
Source: COVID-19 Warnings Nov 10, 2020 2 years ago
COVID-19 Warnings! The COVID-19 disease is always baffling the medical community and researchers day by day with new discoveries or anomalies being uncovered or emerging rare case studies.
Since the beginning of the pandemic it was assumed that only the elderly would be most at risk and subsequently as more younger adults and youths were also contracting the disease and dying from i...
Source: COVID-19 Clinical Care Nov 10, 2020 2 years ago
COVID-19 Clinical Care: A new study by researchers from the Federal University of Sao Paulo-Brazil and Faculdade de Medicina do ABC-Brazil have discovered that the inner retina of certain severe COVID-19 patients may harbor acute vascular lesions in the form of flame-shaped hemorrhages and "cotton wool" spots. However the researchers are not clear as to what could be causing these retina...
Source: COVID-19 Supplements Nov 10, 2020 2 years ago
COVID-19 Supplements: Researchers from Cleveland Clinic in a new study have found that melatonin, a hormone that regulates the sleep-wake cycle and is commonly used as an over-the-counter sleep aid, may be a viable treatment option for COVID-19.
The study findings were published in the peer reviewed journal: PLOS Biology.
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.30009...
Source: COVID-19 Protection Nov 09, 2020 2 years ago
COVID-19 Protection: Nanox, a Brazilian company based on São Paulo and supported by São Paulo Research Foundation, through FAPESP’s Innovative Research in Small Business Program (PIPE) has developed a new technology of incorporating nanoparticles of silver and silica into the polyethylene structure of a new protective film against the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. The company has lic...
In the first ever multicenter randomized controlled trial study involving herbs to treat COVID-19, researchers from Pakistan, Canada, Chile and the United States have shown that the herb Nigella Sativa (Fennel Flower or Black Caraway Plant or Kalonji) and honey is able to treat moderate and severe COVID-19 patients.
The study findings were published on a preprint server is currently being...
Source: COVID-19 RECOVERY Nov 09, 2020 2 years ago
COVID-19 RECOVERY: The current NAT PCR Nasal swab test can be described as one of the most inaccurate diagnostic protocols to assess whether a person has recovered from COVID-19 and even to a certain degree to assess even if a person has been infected.
If we were to look at the start of the pandemic that started in Wuhan China, Chinese researchers along with the WHO first assumed that the...
Source: COVID-19 Prophylaxis Nov 09, 2020 2 years ago
COVID-19 Prophylaxis: A recent study by All India Institutes of Medical Sciences (AIIMS)-Bhubaneswar in the Indian state of Odisha found that two doses of the drug ivermectin served as a prophylaxis that resulted in a 73% reduction in COVID-19 infection.
In the study that was also propelled by Thailand Medical News research initiatives, ivermectin prophylaxis was taken by 77 controls and ...
COVID-19 Latest: According to the research findings from a global registry of psoriasis and COVID-19 patients, led by Guy's and St Thomas' clinicians, patients with psoriasis who are taking drugs that affect their immune system have high rates of survival from COVID-19, in most cases almost over 90% survive.
The study findings were published in the Journal of Allergy an...
Research News: Scientist from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have in a new study found that the eye's cornea can resist infection from the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. Although the herpes simplex virus can infect the cornea and spread to other parts of the body in patients with compromised immune systems, and Zika virus has been found in tears and corneal tissue, SARS-CoV...
Source: COVID-19 Genomics Nov 08, 2020 2 years ago
COVID-19 Genomics: Scientist from New Zealand, the United States and Australia have in a new study demonstrated the effectiveness of real-time genomic sequencing at tracking the re-emergence of severe SARS-CoV-2 in New Zealand, in August this year. They however pointed at various shortcomings in the current Global SARS-CoV-2 sequencing data available in various open access repositories onlin...
Source: U.S.COVID-19 Crisis Nov 08, 2020 2 years ago
U.S.COVID-19 Crisis: Hope is finally returning to America. It is time to throw aside any blame games and instead focus on the current COVID-19 crisis that is plaguing America. As of today the total number of COVID-19 infections in America has reached 9,862,715 while the CDC and NIH are saying that the actual numbers could be far more than that. Between 80 to 95 percent of these people are also goi...
COVID-19 Impacts: Researchers from Anglia Ruskin University (ARU), with support from the British Tinnitus Association and the American Tinnitus Association have found in a new study that the common condition that causes the perception of noise in the ear and head known as tinnitus is actually exacerbated by COVID-19 and at the same time it was also found that some individuals who never ...
COVID-19 Alerts: The world is really entering a dangerous phase and people should start facing the reality of what is coming. Rather than accusing sites that expose the truths of being fear mongers, while all that they are doing is to warn organizations, entities and people so that everyone is better prepared for what is to come, people should be praising these sites for the advance warnings...
COVID-19-Sex: Researchers from the University of Toledo at Ohio in a new study have found that the anti-inflammatory and proimmune properties of the hormone Oxytocin can be beneficial in the management of the COVID-19 disease.
The research findings were published in the peer-reviewed journal: Physiological Genomics (A journal of the American Physiological Society)
https://journals.physiol...
Source: COVID-19 Biomarkers Nov 07, 2020 2 years ago
COVID-19 Biomarkers: Harvard Medical School researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital-Boston have in a new study found that rapid rise of C-reactive protein (CRP) levels in COVID-19 patients are an indication of increasing respiratory decline and disease severity. According to the study team, CRP can be used as a biomarker to predict outcomes in COVID-19 patients.
In this single-c...
COVID-19 World: The new COVID-19 infections are rising again with the global figures reaching a new record at 608,550 while America proudly also reached a new record high of 123,085 new infections. However the death rates in the last 24 hours showed a dismal figure of only a mere 8771 globally and a just only 1226 Americans dying from the COVID-19. However on the bright side, more than 67,000 Amer...
Source: Probiotics-COVID-19 Nov 06, 2020 2 years ago
Probiotics-COVID-19: Researchers from Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences, University of Reading-UK and Department of Sport Science, Sport, Health and Performance Enhancement Research Centre, Nottingham Trent University-UK have in a new study demonstrated the role of the gut microbiome in COVID-19 and also the benefits of probiotics for both as adjuvants and also as prophylactics.
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COVID-19 Warning: Malaysian researchers Dr Chia Siang Kow from the International Medical University, in Kuala Lumpur-Malaysia and Dr Syed Shahzad Hasan from the University of Huddersfield-U.K have in a new meta-analysis study involving 5 past research data involving a total of 37,372 patients found that proton-pump inhibitors (PPIs) usage is associated with an increased risk for poor outcome...
Source: Coronavirus Latest Nov 06, 2020 2 years ago
Coronavirus Latest: A new study by a multidisciplinary team of Yale researchers has discovered that the nonstructural protein 1 (Nsp1) of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is able to hijack the human host protein synthesis in the ribosomes of the cells in order to produce its own viral proteins.
It has been found that one of the novel coronavirus' most insidious tricks is that it can block t...
COVID-19 Herbs: German researchers from the Institute of Molecular Virology, Ulm University Medical Center, Technische Universitaet Dresden and CogniVerde GmbH in a new study report the effects of green tea and black chokeberry, pomegranate, and elderberry juices on preventing SARS-CoV-2 viral infections in cells.
The study team said that respiratory viruses initially infect the naso- and...
Research News: In a new study by Yale Cancer Center, researchers have identified the short endosomal protein interferon-inducible transmembrane protein 3 or IFITM3 as a central amplifier to supercharge activation of immune cells.
The IFITM3 proteins functions like glue to rapidly assemble and tighten up large complexes of signaling molecules that together generate the activation sig...
The signs are heralding a ‘fun’ filled chaotic year end festive season! In the last 24 hours, the world has seen a record 9,067 COVID-19 deaths within 24 hours and more than 571, 481 infected by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. (Source: Worldometer)
For those that have been skeptical of Thailand Medical News’ predictions, just keep on monitoring the situation from now till Ma...
Swine Flu: On Wednesday, Canadian health authorities reported the country's first case of a human infected with the H1N2 virus, a rare strain of swine flu.
A Chinese pig being tested for swine flu. Credit: Honglei Sun
The isolated case was case detected in the western province of Alberta in mid-October and although Canadian authorities are refusing to divulge the details of the infect...
Source: COVID-19 Mortality Nov 05, 2020 2 years ago
COVID-19 Mortality risk was found to be reduced by 22% to 25% in individuals taking statins according to a Spanish study.
The retrospective observational study involved patients taking statins who were 11 years older and had significantly more comorbidities than patients who were not taking statins. A genetic matching (GM) procedure was performed prior to analysis of the mortality risk. ...
Source: Ozone Water-COVID-19 Nov 05, 2020 2 years ago
Ozone Water-COVID-19: Japanese researchers from University of Miyazaki in a new study have found that ozone water is able to rapidly inactivate the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.
Despite ozone water being one of the promising candidates for hand hygiene to prevent fomite infection, the detailed effects of ozone water on SARS-CoV-2 have never been studied and documented till now. The study team e...
Source: COVID-19 Genomics Nov 05, 2020 2 years ago
COVID-19 Genomics: A new genomic research by scientist from University of Oxford, and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health shows the presence of of large-scale internal RNA base pairing in the SARS-CoV-2 genome. This property, termed genome-scale ordered RNA structure (GORS) has been previously associated with host persistence in other positive-strand RNA viruses, potentially through it...
Source: COVID-19 Symptoms Nov 05, 2020 2 years ago
COVID-19 Symptoms: A new research by French and Spanish Researchers from University Of Bordeaux-France and Universitat Oberta De Catalunya, Barcelona-Spain indicates that delirium accompanied by fever could be an early symptom of COVID-19.
The research findings were published in the Journal of Clinical Immunology and Immunotherapy. https://www.heraldopenaccess.us/openaccess/delirium-in-se...
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