By Dr. Liji Thomas, MD Feb 1 2021 Against the sheer scale of morbidity and death due to the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, the urgency of identifying drugs and other measures that reduce these adverse outcomes is enormous. A new study – involving an international team of researchers from Canada, the U.S. and Brazil –...
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What Can Covid-19 Teach Us About the Mysteries of Smell?
Credit…Stephanie Gonot for The New York Times FEATURE What Can Covid-19 Teach Us About the Mysteries of Smell? The virus’s strangest symptom has opened new doors to understanding our most neglected sense. Credit…Stephanie Gonot for The New York Times By Brooke Jarvis Danielle Reed stopped counting after the 156th email arrived in a single afternoon. It...
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COVID-19 rarely spreads through surfaces. So why are we still deep cleaning?
Dyani Lewis Workers spray disinfectant on a street in Shijiazhuang, China, in January 2020. Credit: Zhai Yujia/China News Service via Getty PDF version When Emanuel Goldman went to his local New Jersey supermarket last March, he didn’t take any chances. Reports of COVID-19 cases were popping up across the United States, so he donned gloves...
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South Africa OKs limited use of parasite drug for COVID-19
by Mogomotsi Magome and Andrew Meldrum Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain South Africa is allowing the limited use of a medicine to treat COVID-19 even though regulators acknowledge there’s not enough evidence that it works or is safe for this purpose. The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority this week announced the drug ivermectin could be used in...
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Studies extend hopes for antibody drugs against COVID-19
by Marilynn Marchione This photo provided by Eli Lilly shows the drug bamlanivimab. On Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021, the company said that the two-antibody combo of bamlanivimab and etesevimab reduced the risk of hospitalizations or death by 70% in newly diagnosed, non-hospitalized COVID-19 patients at high risk of serious illness because of age or other...
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Myeloid immune cells in the blood tied to severe COVID-19
by Karolinska Institutet Anna Smed Sörensen, associate professor at the Department of Medicine, Solna, Karolinska Institutet. Credit: Ulf Sirborn Individual variations in how the immune system responds to SARS-CoV-2 appear to impact the severity of disease. Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have now been able to show that patients with severe COVID-19 have significantly elevated levels of...
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A gout drug shows promise for Covid-19, but skeptics worry about trusting science by press release
By MATTHEW HERPER @matthewherper JANUARY 23, 2021 NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES, NIH Apress release from a Canadian research group raised hopes that treating people recently diagnosed with Covid-19 with colchicine, a drug commonly used to treat gout, could reduce the risk they will need to be hospitalized. But outside experts said the data provided were too...
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6 Effects of COVID-19 on Mental Health
By Karon Warren Mental health effects of COVID-19 include anxiety, insomnia and dementia. The mental health toll of COVID-19 is far reaching, affecting people who have survived the illness, cared for the sick, lost a loved one, suffered a job loss, or all of the above. In fact, according to a new study, 1 in 5...
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In preclinical models, antiviral better inhibits COVID-19 than Remdesivir; further studies warranted
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE Working in preclinical models, researchers report that plitidepsin, a drug with limited clinical approval for the treatment of multiple myeloma, is more potent against SARS-CoV-2 than remdesivir, an antiviral that received FDA emergency use authorization for the treatment of COVID-19 in 2020. The results suggest plitidepsin should be further evaluated...
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Promising nanobodies against COVID-19 produced by llamas
Interview conducted by Emily Henderson, B.Sc. Jan 25 2021 Thought Leaders Dr. David BrodyProfessor of NeurologyUniformed Services University In this interview, News-Medical speaks to Dr. David Brody about his latest research that involved discovering nanobodies produced by llamas that could help combat coronavirus. What provoked your research into the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic? We are neuroscientists, so it was a...