March 2020 – REGENHEALTHSOLUTIONS (RHS)

PIER MARIA FORNASARI
2020-03-31

Estimating the number of infections and the impact of nonpharmaceutical interventions on COVID-19 in 11 European countries

Following a report just published by London Imperial College containment measures saved in Italy 38.000 lives. Following the emergence of a novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) and its spread outside of China, Europe is now experiencing large epidemics. In response, many European countries have implemented unprecedented non-pharmaceutical interventions including case isolation, the closure of schools and universities,

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PIER MARIA FORNASARI
2020-03-31

No proof chloroquine/hydroxychloroquine drug is effective against coronavirus, EU says

The European Commission said today there was no evidence that hydroxychloroquine touted by as a potential cure against COVID-19 was effective against the disease caused by the new coronavirus. Source Reuters “The efficacy of hydroxychloroquine in the treatment of COVID-19 patients has to date not been proved,” a spokesman for the European Commission said today,

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PIER MARIA FORNASARI
2020-03-31

China to include symptom-free coronavirus carriers in national figures

The national health commission said it would start to include asymptomatic cases in its Covid-19 statistics in move to address public concern Classified government data has suggested that silent carriers could make up around a third of cases Source South China Morning Post China will include asymptomatic coronavirus carriers in its daily figures from Wednesday,

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PIER MARIA FORNASARI
2020-03-31

€450 MILLION FOR EUROPE’S LONG-TERM FRONTIER RESEARCH

185 scientists win European Research Council’s Advanced Grants The 185 winners of the ERC’s annual Advanced Grants competition were announced today. They will explore their most daring and innovative ideas proposed in response to last year’s call. The new research projects, apart from strengthening Europe’s knowledge base, will also lead to creation of some 1,800

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PIER MARIA FORNASARI
2020-03-30

A ‘Cardiac Patch with Bioink’ Developed to Repair Heart

A joint research team of POSTECH, The Catholic University, and City University of Hong Kong developed an ‘in vivo priming’ with heart-derived bioink.Using engineered stem cells and 3D bioprinting technology, they began developing medicines for cardiovascular diseases. The heart is the driving force of circulating blood in the body and pumps blood to the entire

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PIER MARIA FORNASARI
2020-03-28

A new report raises hope that the blood of recovered patients can help treat severe coronavirus cases

Chinese researchers reported encouraging — yet early — results of a potential COVID-19 treatment. Five critically ill coronavirus patients got better after receiving an experimental treatment that’s made from the blood of people who’ve recovered from the virus. The early results were published Friday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, a leading medical journal. The

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PIER MARIA FORNASARI
2020-03-27

Relaxing Wuhan Covid-19 lockdown too soon will fuel second wave, study warns

Relaxing social distancing rules and lifting coronavirus closures in Wuhan, China — where the outbreak emerged — too soon could fuel a second wave of infections, according to a new study, published in the Lancet Public Health journal, suggesting that things should not go back to normal in Wuhan before April. In December, 2019, severe

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PIER MARIA FORNASARI
2020-03-27

SARS-CoV-2 related coronaviruses identified in Malayan pangolins

A search for the ‘missing link’ in the chain of the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 has uncovered two close cousins of the new coronavirus in shipments of pangolins being smuggled into China. It’s important to note that the discovery by researchers from across Hong Kong and China falls well short of identifying these precious mammals as the source

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PIER MARIA FORNASARI
2020-03-27

Tech workers from Apple, Amazon and Google build Covid-19 tracker

COVID Near You was built by a group of tech volunteers to help the public easily report COVID-19 symptoms or testing activity. Using these reports, the tracker maps this information to provide local and national views of the illness. The site is a sister tool of Flu Near You, a brainchild of Ending Pandemics and Boston Children’s

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PIER MARIA FORNASARI
2020-03-26

MIT-based team works on rapid deployment of open-source, low-cost ventilator

Clinical and design considerations will be published online; goal is to support rapid scale-up of device production to alleviate hospital shortages. One of the most pressing shortages facing hospitals during the Covid-19 emergency is a lack of ventilators. These machines can keep patients breathing when they no longer can on their own, and they can

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Estimating the number of infections and the impact of nonpharmaceutical interventions on COVID-19 in 11 European countries

No proof chloroquine/hydroxychloroquine drug is effective against coronavirus, EU says

China to include symptom-free coronavirus carriers in national figures

€450 MILLION FOR EUROPE’S LONG-TERM FRONTIER RESEARCH

A ‘Cardiac Patch with Bioink’ Developed to Repair Heart

A new report raises hope that the blood of recovered patients can help treat severe coronavirus cases

Relaxing Wuhan Covid-19 lockdown too soon will fuel second wave, study warns

Tech workers from Apple, Amazon and Google build Covid-19 tracker

MIT-based team works on rapid deployment of open-source, low-cost ventilator