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.
Source: COVID-19 Clinical Care Apr 22, 2020 3 years ago
COVID-19 Clinical Care: According to medical researchers from Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, the presence of minute blood clots could be causing more severity to the conditions of moderate and critical COVID-19 patients. https://www.mountsinai.org/about/newsroom/2020/mount-sinai-study-finds-covid19-may-be-driven-by-pulmonary-thrombi-and-pulmonary-endothelial-dysfunction-pr
The S...
Source: COVID-19 Ventilators Apr 21, 2020 3 years ago
COVID-19 Ventilators: Initially created by a robot scientist and a neurosurgeon to help India's poor, a toaster-sized ventilator is offering hope in the world's fight against the COVID-19 pandemic and demand is booming.
The affordable High Specs Indian AgVa Ventilator
The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus at its most lethal attacks the lungs and in most cases it is the immunity’s own&r...
Source: COVID-19 Warnings Apr 21, 2020 3 years ago
COVID-19 Warnings: When, the COVID-19 crisis first broke out in China and subsequently in other parts of Asia, protective face mask and hand sanitizers became sought after commodities, creating an acute shortage and prices to escalate coupled with creating a nightmare for various governments.
Then as the COVID-19 pandemic progressed, health authorities and doctors realized that ventilators and ...
Source: COVID-19 Drug Research Apr 21, 2020 3 years ago
COVID-19 Drug Research: A recent randomized, controlled study on the safety and efficacy of either lopinavir/ritonavir (LPV/r) or Arbidol, both antivirals that are used in some countries against HIV-1 and to treat influenza and respectively as treatments for COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, suggests that neither drug improves the clinical outcome of patients hospit...
Source: COVID-19 Breakthrough Apr 20, 2020 3 years ago
COVID-19 Breakthrough: According to a study by genomic and medical researchers at Scripps Research, an antibody recovered from a survivor of the SARS epidemic in 2003s has revealed a potential vulnerability of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.
The antibody called CR3022, produced by a patient in response to the coronavirus that causes SARS, also binds to the new coronavirus that causes COVID-19....
Source: COVID-19 Research Apr 20, 2020 3 years ago
COVID-19 Research: Medical researchers from Oregon Health And Science University, Portland, and the Portland VA Research Foundation have discovered that genetic variability in the human immune system may affect susceptibility to, and severity of infection by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus responsible for the deadly Covid-19 disease.
The research is...
COVID-19 Drugs: Favipiravir or Avigan the flu drug that was developed by Toyama Chemicals in Japan that has since been acquired by Fuji Films Pharmaceuticals has been touted by many countries as an experimental drug for treating COVID-19 despite weak studies supporting its efficacy.
It was brought to media attention by China advocating its use in one of its national health guidelines based on r...
COVID-19 News: According to a recent research report from the University of Göttingen. In Germany, the number of confirmed cases for the novel coronavirus disease COVID-19 officially issued by countries and widely reported by national and international media outlets dramatically understates the true number of infections.
https://reason.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Bommer-Vollmer-2020-COVID-...
Source: COVID-19 World News Apr 19, 2020 3 years ago
COVID-19 World News: The Australian government on today (19th April) called for an independent investigation into the global response to the coronavirus pandemic, including the WHO or World Health Organization’s handling of the crisis.
Marise Payne, the Australian Foreign Minister said the country would "insist" on a review that would probe, in part, China's early response to t...
Source: COVID-19 Drug Research Apr 19, 2020 3 years ago
COVID-19 Drug Research: A new meta-analysis collaborative study by medical researchers from the University of San Diego and Yantai Yuhuangding Hospital in Shandong and also Shengjing Hospital in Shenyang, both in China, has confirmed that both Chloroquine and Hydroxychloroquine are both not effective for treating the COVID-19 disease and in fact caused a variety of adverse events in most pat...
COVID-19 Studies: Shanghai researchers are warning that a lot of recovered patients showed no signs of possessing the neutralising proteins or antibodies while majority had extremely low counts.
These could have major implications for vaccine development and herd immunity.
The researchers also warned that recovered patients also possessed a higher risk of reinfections.
The t...
Source: COVID-19 Protection Apr 19, 2020 3 years ago
COVID-19 Protection: N95 mask or respirators can be harmful to certain individuals with breathing problems and heart issues and also long term usage of these mask can also lead to serious medical conditions.
(ATTENTION: PLEASE DO NOT QUOTE THIS ARTICLE OUT OF CONTEXT! IT IS IMPORTANT FOR ALL TO WEAR A PROTECTIVE MASK TO HELP STOP THE SPREAD THE COVID-19 DISEASE WHILE OFFERING PROTECTION TO ALL US...
COVID-19 Drugs: According to sources, a French research entity is planning to start a clinical trial on Ivermectin to treat COVID-19 disease soon.
A lot of medical professionals are now coming out in support of using Ivermectin as a experimental drug while the many clinical trials are underway may pave the path for its official repurposing as a COVID-19 drug.
The interest sta...
Source: COVID-19 Clinical Research Apr 18, 2020 3 years ago
COVID-19 Clinical Research: A collaborative group of eleven international medical research organizations is investigating whether overactive immune cells that produce Neutrophil Extracellular Traps (NETs) cause the most severe cases. The consortium, called the NETwork, includes Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, and the Research Institute of the McGill Un...
COVID-19 Drugs: An abstract study submitted by researchers from University Of Utah, Harvard Medical School and Surgisphere Corporation showed that COVID-19 patients who were critically ill with lung injury needing mechanical ventilation, benefitted from taking Ivermectin compared to other drug alternatives. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3570270
The study lead by Dr A...
COVID-19 Latest: New emerging studies show that individuals infected with the SARS-CoV02 coronavirus could be spreading "aerosolized" viral particles as they cough, breathe or talk in a 13-foot radius, and viral particles can also move around on people's shoes.
Fortunately the studies also indicated that standard protective gear appears to effectively shield healt...
Source: Thailand Medical News Apr 18, 2020 3 years ago
Breaking Medical News: Virologists are warning about the appearance of two new species of viruses that have been identified in blood samples taken from patients in Brazil's northern region who had similar symptoms to those of dengue or Zika, such as high fever, severe headache, rash and red skin spots.
A virus that belongs to the genus Ambidensovirus and was found in a sample collecte...
COVID-19 Drugs: Ivermectin is gaining more attention as a possible drug candidate as it is an already approved drug for the treatment of parasites and also various virus causing diseases. It has already demonstrated to possess relevant antiviral properties.
More than 2.5 billion doses of the drugs have been used by humans in the last 30 years to treat malaria, dengue fever and even the &n...
Source : COVID-19 Research Apr 17, 2020 3 years ago
COVID-19 Research: French researchers lead by Professor Remi Charrel from the Aix-Marseille University in southern France has discovered that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is able to withstand high temperatures even when heated to as high as 60 degrees Celsius (140 Fahrenheit) for an hour, as it was found the that the new coronavirus was still able to replicate.
It was found that ...
Source: COVID-19 Global Crisis Apr 17, 2020 3 years ago
COVID-19 Global Crisis: As on Friday Morning (0830hrs, 17th April 2020), the total number of confirmed infected individuals in the world is roughly about 2,195,000 while the official death toll is 147,027 (the real death toll could be around the range of 185,000 to 235,000 due to under reporting and cover ups by governments in most countries, and also in some cases as a result of lack of testing, ...
COVID-19 Alert: To add to many studies already showing that the deadly and potent ways the SARS-Cov-2 has of attacking various human host cells and also critical proteins and cellular pathways in the human cells, a new collaborative study by researchers from the United States and China now shows that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus also attacks the T Lymphocytes similarly to the way that HIV viruses ac...
Source: COVID-19 Treatments Apr 16, 2020 3 years ago
COVID-19 Treatments: A major medical debate has emerged among healthcare professionals treating COVID-19 as to when should patients who need help breathing be placed on ventilators and could intubation do some patients more harm than good?
Currently it has emerged as one of the biggest medical dilemma.
Supporting research studies and data is scarce and there aren't yet formal studies on th...
COVID-19 Drugs : Hydroxychloroquine, the malaria drug that is being advocated by some to treat COVID-19 despite the dangers associated with its use, appeared not to help patients get rid of the pathogen in yet another new study by researchers from China. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.10.20060558v1.article-info
The drug did not help patients clear the virus better tha...
COVID-19 Updates: Medical researchers from University of California San Diego School of Medicine are warning that in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic or even currently in recovered patients and also those that are asymptomatic, a host of neuropsychiatric challenges may emerge and healthcare professionals need to pay careful attention to these.
Their research findings were published ...
Source: SARS-CoV-2 Research Apr 15, 2020 3 years ago
SARS-CoV-2 Research: Medical and genomic researchers have been for the last few months been trying to identify the species of origin to understand how the novel SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus first leapt from its animal hosts to humans, causing the current pandemic infecting millions globally and causing almost 200,000 deaths so far.
Researchers have been looking for an intermediate animal ho...
Source: COVID-19 Blood Plasma Therapy Apr 14, 2020 3 years ago
COVID-19 Blood Plasma Therapy: Medical experts from Johns Hopkins have created a clinical guide to help hospitals and medical centers rapidly scale up their ability to deliver so-called convalescent plasma therapy, which leverages immune system components found in the plasma portion of blood from people who have recovered from COVID-19 illness.
Dr Evan M Bloch, M.D., M.S. an Associate Pro...
Source: US COVID-19 Crisis Apr 14, 2020 3 years ago
US COVID-19 Crisis: Initially, there was only reports COVID-19 lung damage. Then came revelations of cardiovascular complications in patients with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. Now, the COVID-19 crisis is highlighting how certain populations, namely African-Americans, in some cities are dying from COVID-19 at higher rates than other populations.
Dr. Clyde Yancy (left) and Dr. Robert Bonow (right)....
Source: COVID-19 Drug Research Apr 14, 2020 3 years ago
COVID-19 Drug Research: More mounting evidence is emerging that both Choloroquine and Hydroxychloroquine have no clinical efficacy whatsoever for the treatment for COVID-19 and on the contrary can be actually dangerous and fatal for certain patients.
Choloroquine was first brought in the limelight by unprofessional and unregulated clinical studies conducted by certain Chinese researchers ...
Source: COVID-19 Pandemic News Apr 14, 2020 3 years ago
COVID-19 Pandemic: To add more confusion to the unknown characteristics of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that scientists and medical experts are still trying to unravel, South Korea reported on Monday (13th April 13) that at least 116 people initially cleared of the new coronavirus had tested positive again, although officials suggested that they would soon look at easing strict recommendations aimed...
COVID-19 Drugs: This time a clinical trial of COVID-19 patients in Brazil ended early after patients taking a higher dose of chloroquine developed irregular heart rates. The clinical study was halted early for safety reasons after patients developed irregular heart rates that increased their risk of a potentially fatal heart arrhythmia.
The drug chloroquine is closely related to the more&...
Source: COVID-19 Diagnostics Apr 13, 2020 3 years ago
COVID-19 Diagnostics: The new antibody blood test kits for the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that causes the COVID-19 disease could play a key role in deciding whether millions of individuals can safely return to work and school. But US and EU public health officials are warning that many of these test kits have not been checked for accuracy and approved by regulatory bodies.
Example of a product...
Source: COVID-19 Research Apr 13, 2020 3 years ago
COVID-19 Research: When we are dealing with a new virus that there has not been much data or information till the last few 14 weeks, we should keep our options open when we are dealing with theories and hypothetic explanations as to date we have no confirmed prevention or treatment protocols nor vaccines except for lots of experimental drugs that have yet to have any proper clinical studies to sup...
Source: COVID-19 RESEARCH Apr 12, 2020 3 years ago
COVID-19 Research: A new study published in the journal Science reported that tests of the new SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus on domesticated cats, dogs, pigs, chickens, ducks and ferrets found that both cats and ferrets are highly susceptible to the virus. Cats can become infected through airborne transmission. It was observed however that dogs have a very low susceptibility to the vi...
Source: Thailand Coronavirus Updates Apr 11, 2020 3 years ago
Thailand Coronavirus Updates: While Thailand management of the COVID-19 crisis can be considered as excellent by the intellectually challenged in the sense to date, the country has only 2518 confirmed cases of the COVID-19 disease and only a mere 35 dead so far as claimed by local authorities, foreigners are bearing the brunt of upfront racialism and discrimination.
To date daily ca...
Source: COVID-19 Research Apr 11, 2020 3 years ago
COVID-19 Research Updates: A New Study Conducted in China by medical researchers from the Academy of Military Sciences, Tianjin, China and Wuhan’s Huoshenshan Hospital, and published in the US CDC’s Journal: Emerging Infectious Diseases, states the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus could be found in air samples as far as 4 meters away from infected patients.
https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/7...
Source: COVID-19 Drug Research Apr 11, 2020 3 years ago
COVID-19 Drug Research: For the past week, lots of media was abuzz about the results of an in vitro study by Australian researchers involving Ivermectin, a drug used to treat parasitic infections.
A single dose anti-parasitic drug was found to be able to stop the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus from replicating in cells within 48 hours, according to findings from the vitro studies by Monash Univer...
Source: COVID-19 Supplements Apr 10, 2020 3 years ago
COVID-19 Supplements: The first clinical trial in the world trial will see researchers from Austin Health Teaching Hospital and the University of Melbourne use intravenous zinc to fight the symptoms of COVID-19 in infected patients.
The clinical trial will be led by Dr Joseph Ischia from Austin Health, along with Dr Oneel Patel from the Department of Surgery at the University of Melbourne...
Source: COVID-19 Research Apr 09, 2020 3 years ago
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Source: COVID-19 Clinical Care Apr 09, 2020 3 years ago
COVID-19 Clinical Care: Chloroquine, hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin are being used to ‘treat and prevent’ COVID-19 despite extremely little and weak evidence for effectiveness, and doctors, healthcare professionals and patients should be aware of these drugs' potentially serious adverse events, states a new report and announcement in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Asso...
Source: COVID-19 Vaccine Updates Apr 08, 2020 3 years ago
COVID-19 Vaccine Updates: To date, no vaccines exists that safeguard individuals against infections by the various coronaviruses, including SARS-CoV-2, which causes the COVID-19 disease, or the ones that cause SARS and MERS. As COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc, many research laboratories around the world have developed a targeted focus on understanding the virus and finding the best strategy for ...
COVID-19 Updates: China leading COVID-19 expert, Dr Zhang Wenhong has publicly warned that a second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic is gradually emerging in China and warns that it could far more worse than the first. His warnings echo the calls from many other Chinese medical professionals who are claiming that despite massive cover-ups by the Chinese government, some even more sophisticated than i...
Source: COVID-19 Research Apr 07, 2020 3 years ago
COVID-19 Research: In a rare case study in Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, medical researches came across a 66 year old male patient that had developed post-infectious acute myelitis.
Acute myelitis or sometimes called acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) is a rare but serious neurologic condition. It affects the nervous system, specifically the area of the spinal cord called gray matter, wh...
COVID-19: Dr Michael Mina, an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and its Center for Communicable Disease Dynamic has announced that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that causes COVID-19 is more transmissible than previously thought.
To date, it has been difficult to keep it from spreading in a number of settings, including hospitals, cruise ships, and...
Source: COVID-19 Supplements Apr 07, 2020 3 years ago
COVID-19 Supplements: Medical researchers from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA) at Trinity College Dublin have released a new crucial report in response to the COVID-19 global crisis. https://tilda.tcd.ie/publications/reports/pdf/Report_Covid19VitaminD.pdf
The medical report: "Vitamin D deficiency in Ireland—implications for COVID-19. Results from the Irish Longit...
Source: COVID-19 Drug Research Apr 07, 2020 3 years ago
COVID-19 Drug Research: A new drug called EIDD-2801 developed by medical researchers from University Of North Carolina, Chapel Hill could change the way doctors treat COVID-19. The drug shows promise in reducing lung damage, has finished testing in animal models such as mice and will shortly be moving into human clinical trials.
To date, the new SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus had infected more th...
COVID-19: Thailand Medical News has always been the forefront of breaking the latest credible research and developments with regards to the COVID-19 disease and often it is a grim picture. Our intention is not to cause panic or make things even more depressing but rather for medical researchers and healthcare professionals to be aware or issues so that solutions can be found and precautions taken....
A new study published in the American Thoracic Society's American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine identifeis the most common characteristics of 85 COVID-19 patients who died in Wuhan, China in the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic. The study reports on commonalities of the largest group of coronavirus patient deaths to be studied to date. https://www.atsjournals.o...
Source: COVID-19 Drug Research Apr 04, 2020 3 years ago
COVID-19 Drug Research: A study just published in a French medical journal provides new evidence that hydroxychloroquine does not appear to help the immune system clear the coronavirus from the body. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0399077X20300858?via%3Dihub
The study comes on the heels of two others one in France and one in China that reported some benefits i...
The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that causes the deadly Covid-19 disease could even spread through the air via normal breathing and speaking, a top US scientist said on Friday as the American government was poised to recommend the use of face masks for everyone.
Dr Anthony Fauci, head of infectious diseases at the National Institutes of Health, told Fox News the guidance on masks would be chang...
Source: COVID-19 Research Apr 03, 2020 3 years ago
COVID-19 Research: A major collaboration of international experts from various medical, genomic and biological fields lead by Northeastern's Center for Complex Network Science Research has identified that the SARS-Cov-2 coronavirus is able to target 332 human proteins and also has a variety of binding sites, not just the four that was initially discovered including ACE-2 receptors.
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Source: Covid-19 Vaccine Updates Apr 03, 2020 3 years ago
Covid-19 Vaccine Updates: Medical, virology and genomic researchers from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have reported a potential vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that causes the deadly Covid-19 disease. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/ebiom/article/PIIS2352-3964(20)30118-3/fulltext
The vaccine when tested in animal models such as mice, the vaccine, delivered throu...
COVID-19: Despite an early warning by Thailand Medical News in an article published 5th Of March 2020 that the SARS-Cov-2 coronavirus that causes the Covid-19 disease could cause harm to the nervous system and also the brain, https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/breaking-news-coronavirus-can-also-attack-the-nervous-system,-causing-neurological-conditions-and-even-viral-encephalitis ,many ignorant...
Source: Covid-19 Clinical Care Apr 03, 2020 3 years ago
Covid-19 Clinical Care: As the global number of infected cases of Covid-19 has already hit more than the one million mark as of Friday morning (9.30am Bangkok, 3rd April) ie 1,015,082 cases and the total number of deaths has now reached 53,207, researchers and medical experts are frantically trying to find treatments and cures and many existing drugs are being repurposed and placed as experimental...
Source: Covid-19 Drug Research Apr 02, 2020 3 years ago
Covid-19 Drug Research: European pharmaceutical giant, APEIRON Biologics AG today announced that it has received regulatory approvals in Austria, Germany and Denmark to initiate a Phase II clinical trial of APN01 to treat Covid-19. APN01 is the recombinant form of the human angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (rhACE2), and has the potential to block the infection of cells by the novel SARS-CoV-2 virus...
Source: Covid-19 Clinical Care Apr 02, 2020 3 years ago
Covid-19 Clinical Care: Medical researchers and ophthalmologists from the Department of Ophthalmology, The First College of Clinical Medical Science, Yichang Central People’s Hospital, Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center and Sun Yat-Sen University have published findings form a new study that shows that almost a third of Covid-19 patients exhibit ocular abnormalities.
Previous studies on clin...
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