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Source: COVID-19 Latest  Feb 07, 2021  4 years ago
COVID-19 Latest: Last Friday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued new revisions to its emergency use authorization (EUA) for COVID-19 convalescent plasma on the basis of the latest clinical trial study findings. https://www.fda.gov/media/141477/download?source=email   The new revision stipulates that only high-titer COVID-19 convalescent plasma can be used and only in hospita...
Source: COVID-19 News  Feb 07, 2021  4 years ago
COVID-19 News: Despite claims that the initial Mink Cluster 5 Variants that were found in Denmark and also in the Netherlands had only infected a few people and that authorities including WHO had things in control since November, it has been emerging over the weeks that this is far from the truth. From the initial 11 humans who were infected with the variants in Denmark, it is becoming more appare...
Source: Coronavirus News  Feb 06, 2021  4 years ago
Coronavirus News: Researchers from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center-California and the University of California, Los Angeles have in a new study confirmed that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is able to infect and damage the pancreas directly, challenging the initial hypothesis that organ damages including the pancreas were only due to effects of cytokine storms alone and not direct viral invasion.  ...
Source: Coronavirus News  Feb 05, 2021  4 years ago
Coronavirus News: A new study by researchers from University of Bielefeld-Germany, the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf-Germany and also Harvard Medical School-USA has confirmed that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus can invade and damage the liver. The study findings were published in the peer reviewed journal: Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articl...
Source: India COVID-19  Feb 05, 2021  4 years ago
India COVID-19: Researchers from Duke University-North Carolina and the University of Chicago and the Center for Monitoring Indian Economy-Mumbai in a new study found that COVID-19 cases in the southern state of Karnataka, India, are nearly 95 times greater than reported.   The study findings along with many other previous studies involving seroprevalence indicate the rate of COVID-19 ...
Source: COVID-19 News  Feb 05, 2021  4 years ago
COVID-19 News: A new study by the U.S. Naval Medical Research Center and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City warns that young COVID-19 survivors despite having antibodies can still easily get reinfected.   The study findings found that seropositive young adults had about one-fifth the risk of subsequent infection compared with seronegative individuals.   The resear...
Source: SARS-CoV-2 Evolution  Feb 04, 2021  4 years ago
SARS-CoV-2 Evolution: Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in a new study found that in a recurring pattern of evolution, the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus evades immune responses by selectively deleting small bits of its genetic sequence.   According to the study abstract, “Zoonotic pandemics, like that caused by SARS-CoV-2, can follow the spillover of animal vir...
Source: COVID-19 Antivirals  Feb 04, 2021  4 years ago
COVID-19 Antivirals: Japanese researchers from National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo and the Tokyo University of Science have in a new study found that oxidized cholesterol derivatives or oxysterol exhibits potent antiviral activity against the SARS-Cov-2 coronavirus.   Developments of effective antiviral drugs targeting SARS-CoV-2 are urgently needed to combat the COVID-19 disea...
Source: COVID-19 Mutations  Feb 03, 2021  4 years ago
COVID-19 Mutations: Authorities from Public Health England have reported alarming discovery this week: The B.1.1.7 variant that has brought that country to its knees appears to be further mutating to gain a mutation that could help it elude vaccines. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/957504/Variant_of_ Concern_VOC_202012_01_Technical_Br...
Source: COVID-19 Treatments  Feb 03, 2021  4 years ago
COVID-19 Treatments: A new study by researchers from National Taiwan University Hospital and National Taiwan University College of Medicine has found that zinc supplementation enhances the efficacy of certain repurposed drugs such as triclabendazole and emetine. The SARS-CoV-2 has caused vast number of infections and fatalities worldwide with almost 104 million infections and more than 2.25 milli...
Source: Cannabis News.  Feb 02, 2021  4 years ago
Cannabis News: A new research led by scientist from the University of Queensland has found that synthetic cannabidiol, better known as CBD is able to kill bacteria that cause gonorrhea, meningitis and legionnaires disease.   The study findings could lead to the first new class of antibiotics for resistant bacteria in 60 years.   At present antimicrobial resistance threatens the viabili...
Source: COVID-19 News  Feb 02, 2021  4 years ago
COVID-19 News: Globally a new phenomenon is being witnessed in which those that never had a history of diabetes before but upon being infected with the new SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus are experiencing a sudden elevation of blood sugar levels and in some cases are ending up with full blown diabetes weeks after so called ‘COVID-19 recovery.’ https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/breaking-covi...
Source: COVID-19 Clinical Care  Feb 02, 2021  4 years ago
COVID-19 Clinical Care: A new study by researchers from the Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor-USA has discovered that a sub-group of COVID-19 patients exhibit high bleeding risk contradicting an initial advocated protocol of administering high dose anticoagulants throughout the duration of their disease course.   From the study abstract, “Typically pat...
Source: COVID-19 Herbs  Feb 01, 2021  4 years ago
COVID-19 Herbs: Scientists from King Fahd Medical Research Center at King Abdulaziz University in a new study have demonstrated the antiviral effects of two medicinal herbs: Hypericum perforatum also called St. John's Wort and Echinacea or Purple Cone Flower against the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, the pathogen that causes COVID-19.the study showed that each herb as well as the two combined, e...
Source: Cancer News  Feb 01, 2021  4 years ago
Cancer News: A new study by researchers from John Hopkins’ Kimmel Cancer Center shows that frequency of oral sex along with number of sex partners one has are all contributing factors to increasing one’s risk of developing propharyngeal cancer. The study showed that a wide breadth of behaviors surrounding oral sex may affect the risk of oral HPV infection and of a virus-associated hea...
Source: Vaccine News  Feb 01, 2021  4 years ago
Vaccine News: We at Thailand medical News are typically skeptical about all the various COVID-19 vaccines being promoted currently due to the fact that many were developed in such a rush, bypassing standard testing and procedures, lack of transparency  coupled with the fact that the past track record of coronavirus vaccines have not been very successful, often causing more problems for the te...
Source: COVID-19 Drugs  Feb 01, 2021  4 years ago
COVID-19 Drugs: A new study by researchers from University of Montreal-Canada,New York University-USA, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid-Spain, Universidade de São Paulo-Brazil, Mayo Clinic-USA, San Francisco General Hospital-USA,  Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute-USA And Université Laval-Canada has found that the existing anti-inflammatory oral drug drug-Colchicine could be rep...
Source: COVID-19 Drugs  Jan 31, 2021  4 years ago
COVID-19 Drugs: Researchers from Emerging Pathogens Institute at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and University of California-San Francisco’s Quantitative Bioscience Institute (QBI) have in a new study found a exsiting cancer drug called Aplidin effective against the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus including the newly emergent B.1.1.7 variant.   The cancer drug Aplidin is mad...
Source: COVID-19 Antivirals  Jan 31, 2021  4 years ago
COVID-19 Antivirals: A new international research involving scientist from Universidad Católica de Valencia-Spain, Kyoto University-Japan, University of Vienna-Austria, Pingla Thana Mahavidyalaya-India, Indian Statistical Institute-India, University of South Florida-USA, University of Otago-New Zealand, University of Padova-Italy, Yarmouk University-Jordan, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical...
Source: Coronavirus News  Jan 30, 2021  4 years ago
Coronavirus News: A new study by researchers from the University of Belize and National Sun Yat-Sen University-Taiwan have discovered that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is able to resists extreme variations in temperature and compared to initial studies done in the beginning of the pandemic, the new findings show that temperature changes between the winter and summer months have a negligible effect o...
Source: Vitamins, Steroids and Retinoids For COVID-19   Jan 30, 2021  4 years ago
Vitamins, steroids and retinoids can be used as adjuvants to treat COVID-19 according to a new study by scientists from the University of Bristol.   According to the study abstract, “The study team investigated the binding of linoleate and other potential ligands to the recently discovered fatty acid binding site in the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein by using docking and molecular dynamics ...
Source: SARS-CoV-2 Variants  Jan 29, 2021  4 years ago
A new study led by scientists  from Columbia University shows warning signs that recently emerged SARS-CoV-2 variants such as the B.1.1.7, B.1.351, and B.1.1.28 variants have become worryingly resistant to monoclonal antibody therapies, plasma from convalescent patients and sera from vaccinated individuals. This new study findings contradict earlier studies the last few days published by cer...
Source: COVID-19 Drugs  Jan 28, 2021  4 years ago
COVID-19 Drugs. While America and the United Kingdom along their so called ‘experts’ and corrupted politicians are constantly denouncing generic drugs that can be repurposed to treat COVID-19, supplements and herbs that can be used as adjuvants to also treat SARS-CoV-2 infections, more countries overseas are now beginning to accept ivermectin for use as both a prophylaxis and also as a...
Source: COVID-19 Vaccine Contest  Jan 28, 2021  4 years ago
COVID-19 Contest: In a spirit of getting more involvement from our readers, we are organizing a simple contest for all our readers around the world, simply read the recently published preprint study by researchers from Moderna and the US NIH and tell us the flaws and hidden facts from the study claiming that its vaccines work on the new SARS-CoV-2 variants.   The preprint study can be found...
Source: Research News  Jan 28, 2021  4 years ago
Research News: A new international study led by scientists from Francis Crick Institute involving numerous other research institutions has revealed that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus  interacts with two heme metabolites, bilirubin and biliverdin, to escape the antibody-mediated host immune responses.   According to the study abstract, “The coronaviral spike is the dominant viral ant...
Source: COVID-19 Innovations  Jan 27, 2021  4 years ago
COVID-19 Innovations: A new U.S.NIH-funded study led by researchers from Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology (Caltech) shows the potential of a remarkably adaptable, nanoparticle-based approach to coronavirus vaccine development. A new coronavirus vaccine approach works by attaching many spike protein receptor-binding domains (RBDs) to an engineered...
Source: Vaccine News  Jan 27, 2021  4 years ago
Vaccine News: Media outlets are abuzz in the last 24 hours about a warning letter sent to the US FDA and Pfizer by a leading immunologist cum scientist in Pennslyvania, Dr  Hooman Noorchashm.   The letter warns about the immunological danger of COVID-19 Vaccination in recently convalescent and asymptomatic carriers most especially to those who are elderly, frail or have significant car...
Source: COVID-19 Research  Jan 27, 2021  4 years ago
COVID-19 Research: Scientists from Erasmus Medical Center-Netherlands and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign-USA have found that the SARS-CoV-2 rapidly adapts to Vero E6 cell culture propagation that is often used in in vitro studies, hence not proper representing the actual viral life cycle as would be in a typical human host setting and can sometimes also lead to misleading laborator...
Source: Prostate Cancer News  Jan 26, 2021  4 years ago
Prostate Cancer News: Researchers from the the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) and the University of Ulsan College of Medicine,-Seoul have developed a new urine based diagnostic platform that far more faster and accurate to detect prostate cancer.   Currently screening for prostate cancer relies on the serum prostate-specific antigen test, which provides a high rate of fals...