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Could tiny blood clots make COVID-19 more lethal?
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Could tiny blood clots make COVID-19 more lethal?

by Dennis Thompson, Healthday Reporter (HealthDay)—The COVID-19 coronavirus appears to promote blood clotting throughout the body, which might help explain why the germ is so much more deadly than other members of its viral family, experts say. Some people severely ill with COVID-19 develop blood clots in their lungs and other major organs, doctors have...

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Vitamin D helps treat lethal drug-resistant TB

Vitamin D has been found to speed up the clearance of tuberculosis (TB) bacteria from the lungs of people with multi-drug resistant TB, according to a study of 1,850 patients receiving antibiotic treatment, led by Queen Mary University of London. Lead researcher Professor Adrian Martineau from Queen Mary University of London said: “Multi-drug resistant TB...