BODYSPHERE announced today they are distributing a new Two-Minute Testing Kit for the diagnosis of the COVID-19 following the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Emergency Use Authorization for the test which uses antibodies in blood to test for current or past infection. The following statement was denied by the FDA confirmation that no such
Study of 1918 flu pandemic shows U.S. cities that responded more aggressively in health terms also had better economic rebounds. With much of the U.S. in shutdown mode to limit the spread of the Covid-19 disease, a debate has sprung up about when the country might “reopen” commerce, to limit economic fallout from the pandemic.
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,
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,
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,
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
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
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
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
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
