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Source: COVID-19 News - Selective Immunoglobulin A Deficiency (sIgAD)  Oct 18, 2022  2 years ago
COVID-19 News: Medical researchers from Auckland Hospital-New Zealand, University of Auckland-New Zealand and Wellington Hospital-New Zealand have in a new study found that selective immunoglobulin A deficiency (sIgAD) is a risk factor for severe COVID-19.   Selective IgA deficiency (sIgAD) is an immune system condition in which one lacks or don't have enough immunoglobulin A (IgA), a p...
Source: Medical News - COVID-19 - Blood And Skin Cancers  Oct 18, 2022  2 years ago
In an alarming new development, medical researchers from Ribeirão Preto Faculty of Medicine, Universidade de São Paulo-Brazil have found that SARS-CoV-2 induced immunological dysregulation can potentially increase the risk of relapses of IB cutaneous T-cell lymphomas such as Sézary Syndrome and Mycosis Fungoides.   The study team presented a documented clinical case stu...
Source: COVID-19 News - Mesenteric Panniculitis And Acute Abdominal Pain  Oct 17, 2022  2 years ago
COVID-19 News: Despite warnings that the newer Omicron variants and sub-lineages that have emerged and started circulating since weeks 18 to now are displaying more tropism towards the gastrointestinal tissues and causing a variety of gastrointestinal tissues, many scientists not in clinical practice or in the study of the pathogenesis of these new variants are expressing skepticisms.   Tha...
Source: Medical News - Pediatric COVID-19 - Febrile-Seizures   Oct 17, 2022  2 years ago
South Korean medical researchers from Jeonbuk National University Medical School, Wonkwang University Medical Center, Gunsan Medical Center, the Presbyterian Medical Center and Design Medical Center in a new study have found that with the emergence of the Omicron variant and its various sub-lineages, the incidence of febrile-seizures has increased among children tested positive for COVID-19. Alarm...
Source: Medical News - SARS-CoV-2 Infections  Oct 16, 2022  2 years ago
A new American study involving researchers from Washington University in St. Louis, University of California, University of Washington, and the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University has found that far more people have been infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus, with possible amounts even reaching 2.4 billion people compared what was reported officially!   The study team using a new ...
Source: Long COVID News  Oct 16, 2022  2 years ago
Long COVID News: A new study conducted by researchers from Stellenbosch University-South Africa has found that the increased levels of six different inflammatory molecules in most post-COVID individuals known to be key drivers of endothelial and clotting pathology, causes thrombotic endotheliitis, a contributing factor to Long COVID. These six inflammatory molecules were:   -1) Von Willebra...
Source: COVID-19 News - Sitagliptin to counteract waning SARS-CoV-2 antibodies  Oct 15, 2022  2 years ago
COVID-19 News: In what can be regarded as a breakthrough study, scientists from Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) along with researchers from various research institutions in China have discovered that the plasma metabolite glycylproline (gly-pro) is responsible for the wanning antibodies in recovered COVID-19 patients.   The breakthrough study findings can help formulate strategies to ma...
Source: COVID-19 News  Oct 15, 2022  2 years ago
COVID-19 News: Germany’s Health Minister German Karl Lauterbach media on Friday that he favors and advocates requiring mask-wearing indoors, a measure that has largely faded in Germany except on public transport, in medical facilities and care homes.   He also urged the 16 states in the country to consider stepping up their COVID-19 prevention and safety measures as cases rise in the ...
Source: Medical News - SARS-CoV-2 - Brain  Oct 14, 2022  2 years ago
A new study by researchers from the University of California-Davis, USA involving animal models such as the Rhesus Macaques has found that SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is able to infect the neurons of the brain and induce inflammation.   SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, the etiologic agent of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), can induce a plethora of neurological complications in some patients.   ...
Source: Medical News - COVID-19 -HIV  Oct 14, 2022  2 years ago
A new study led by researchers from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has found that HIV patients with moderately low CD4 cell counts risk severe breakthrough COVID-19 infections.   The study team said that understanding the severity of postvaccination SARS-CoV-2 (ie, COVID-19) breakthrough illness among individuals with HIV (PWH) can inform vaccine guidelines and risk-reducti...
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Source: COVID-19 News  Oct 13, 2022  2 years ago
COVID-19 News: A new study by researchers from the University Of Michigan-USA has found that cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors such as age, smoking and diabetes increase the risk of COVID-19 mortality and not preexisting cardiovascular disease itself!   The study findings showed that the occurrence of myocardial injury, regardless of preexisting CVD, and its association with outcomes...
Source: COVID-19 Drugs - Paxlovid  Oct 13, 2022  2 years ago
COVID-19 Drugs: Leading cardiologists and physicians from various hospitals and medical centers across the state of Massachusetts-USA have issued a warning of adverse drug interactions especially involving heart medications in COVID-19 patients treated with Paxlovid (Nirmatrelvir/Ritonavir).   The team of specialists from Lahey Hospital and Medical Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital...
Source: SARS-CoV-2 Research  Oct 13, 2022  2 years ago
SARS-CoV-2 Research: A new study has found that SARS-CoV-2 mediated dysregulation in cell signaling events are actually driving COVID-19 severity.   In a normal setting, in order to eradicate the illness, an immune response balanced against an unknown pathogen is essential.   Typically, a cascade of cell signaling events is immediately activated upon sensing the presence of SARS-CoV-2 ...
Source: Long COVID  Oct 12, 2022  2 years ago
A new study by researchers from University of Birmingham-UK has found that SARS-CoV-2 infections can also trigger a variety of immune-mediated inflammatory diseases (IMIDS) especially type 1 diabetes mellitus, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and psoriasis.   The aim of the study was to assess whether there is an association between SARS CoV-2 infection and the incidence of immune mediated ...
Source: Long COVID  Oct 12, 2022  2 years ago
A study by Harvard researchers involving humoral immune profiling has discovered that immunity to non-COVID-19 endemic coronaviruses may play a role in who develops PASC (Post-Acute Sequelae of COVID-19) commonly known as Long COVID!   The study team comprised scientists from Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard-USA, Brigham and Women’s Hospital-Boston, Massachusetts General Hospi...
Source: Pharma News - Metformin - Atrial Fibrillation  Oct 12, 2022  2 years ago
A new study by researcher from Cleveland Clinic, Ohio-USA And Northwestern University-Illinois-USA has found that the common generic drug used to treat type 2 diabetes..metformin, can be used to treat atrial fibrillation. Atrial fibrillation (AF) is an irregular and often very rapid heart rhythm (arrhythmia) that can lead to blood clots in the heart. AF increases the risk of stroke, heart failure...
Source; Medical News - Liver Cancer  Oct 12, 2022  2 years ago
A new study by researchers from the University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences, Ohio -USA and the U.S. National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Maryland-USA has found that diets high in processed fiber could increase risk of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), a type of liver cancer.   The study also involved researchers from Georgia State University, Atlanta-US...
Source: COVID-19 Drugs -Glutamine, Pyruvate, Rosiglitazone, Arginine, 2-DG  Oct 11, 2022  2 years ago
COVID-19 Drugs: A new breakthrough study by researchers from the Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University-China and Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen-China has found that glutamine and pyruvate supplementation, and also the drug diabetic drug Rosiglitazone can reduce and prevent cytokine upregulation hyperinflammation as result of inflammation in macrophages induced by the SARS-...
Source: COVID-19 Drugs - Metformin  Oct 11, 2022  2 years ago
COVID-19 Drugs: Spanish researchers and physicians have in a new study found that the diabetic drug Metformin (Glucophage) lowers the risk of disease severity and fatal outcomes in diabetic patients infected with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. The study involved medical researchers from the Hospital Clinic of Barcelona-Spain, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona-Spain and Fundació Institu...
Source: Medical News - COVID-19 Research  Oct 10, 2022  2 years ago
When Thailand Medical News contacted many researchers and labs that had been involved last year and early this year with studies on the properties, characteristics and pathogenesis of the SARS-CoV-2 Delta and early Omicron variants to see if they had any updates on the latest emerging Omicron sub-lineages, we were shocked to find that most had already stopped such research since June and July 2022...
Source: COVID-19 News - Women Reproductive Health  Oct 10, 2022  2 years ago
COVID-19 News: A review study conducted by researchers from the Department of Anatomy, Cell Biology and Physiological Sciences at the American University of Beirut-Lebanon and from the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore-USA has found that systemic inflammation triggered by COVID-19 infections affects female reproductive health in a variety of ways. &nb...
Source: COVID-19 Medical Devices  Oct 09, 2022  2 years ago
COVID-19 Medical Devices: Researchers and scientists from The Institute for Biomedical Engineering & Nano Science at Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai-China have developed a new face mask that detects the specific type of respiratory virus that is in close proximity and in surrounding environment and alerts the user via a smartphone app. The new face masks are capable of identifyi...
Source: Medical News - New Omicron Sub-lineages  Oct 09, 2022  2 years ago
During the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, we saw that it was the elderly and those with existing comorbidities like high blood pressure, cardiac issues and diabetes that were more susceptible to the disease severity and mortality risk of SARS-CoV-2 infections. Most of the young especially babies and young kids were spared from the original Wuhan wildtype strain and also from the early varian...
Please Refer To Correction Notice Below  Oct 09, 2022  2 years ago
UPDATES: 10th Novermber 2022 Singapore Health Authorities have informed media in Singapore that the local data and reports from hospitals show that the XBB variant does not cause any disease severity and that the current infections and hospitalization rates in Singapore are not rising exponentially and that as of Tuesday, there are only 11 Covid-19 patients under intensive care and 50 needing ox...