Archives: 2020-11-14

PIER MARIA FORNASARI
2020-11-14

Treatments for People with Early COVID-19 Infection is an Urgent Research Focus, according to a JAMA Viewpoint article by NIAID Director Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., and colleagues.

Effective, Early Interventions would Benefit Individual Patients and Healthcare System COVID-19 treatments for people with early infection are needed urgently, according to a JAMA Viewpoint article by NIAID Director Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., and colleagues. Treating people early in the course of infection with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, would speed their recovery, reduce

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PIER MARIA FORNASARI
2020-11-14

Real-time Conformational Dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 Spikes on Virus Particles with four distinct FRET efficiency states, enhanced by proteolysis. Convalescent plasma antibodies exert a double action.

SARS-CoV-2 spike (S) mediates viral entry into cells and is critical for vaccine development against COVID-19. Structural studies have revealed distinct conformations of S, but real-time information that connects these structures, is lacking. In this paper it’s applied single-molecule Fluorescence (Förster) Resonance Energy Transfer (smFRET) imaging to observe conformational dynamics of S on virus particles.

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PIER MARIA FORNASARI
2020-11-13

Inhaled nebulised Interferon beta-1a may help Covid-19 patients, in a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase two trial.

An inhaled form of interferon — a drug commonly used to treat multiple sclerosis by injection — may help protect hospitalized Covid-19 patients from getting worse, according to a British drugmaker. Results were first released in July, but were published Thursday as a peer-reviewed study in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine. The body naturally releases interferon when

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PIER MARIA FORNASARI
2020-11-12

Fluvoxamine vs Placebo and Clinical Deterioration in Outpatients With Symptomatic COVID-19. A Randomized Clinical Trial

An obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) drug may help improve the conditions of coronavirus patients, a new study suggests. Fluvoxamine, sold under the brand name Luvox, is a medication that scientists believe has anti-inflammatory properties, which can help control the immune system’s overreaction to the virus.  No patient who was given the drug suffered from shortness of breath

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PIER MARIA FORNASARI
2020-11-11

Speed, Evidence, and Safety Characteristics of Vaccine Approvals by the US FDA

To understand the usual approval process followed by the FDA, researchers of the Yale University School of Medicine have systematically evaluated all novel vaccines approved by the FDA over the last decade, characterizing the premarket development and regulatory review times, the clinical evidenceon which approval was based, and the size and follow-up duration of the

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PIER MARIA FORNASARI
2020-11-10

FDA issues EUA for Bamlanivimab Monoclonal Antibody for Treatment of mild-to-moderate COVID-19

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) for the investigational monoclonal antibody therapy bamlanivimab for the treatment of mild-to-moderate COVID-19 in adult and pediatric patients. Bamlanivimab is authorized for patients with positive results of direct SARS-CoV-2 viral testing who are 12 years of age and older weighing at least 40 kilograms (about

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PIER MARIA FORNASARI
2020-11-10

Baricitinib treatment resolves lower airway macrophage inflammation and neutrophil recruitment in SARS-CoV-2-infected rhesus macaques. Running NIH clinical trial in association with remdesivir.

SARS-CoV-2 induced hypercytokinemia and inflammation are critically associated with COVID19 disease severity. Baricitinib, a clinically approved JAK1/2 inhibitor, is currently being investigated in COVID-19 clinical trials. In this paper published on Cell, are investigated the immunologic and virologic efficacy of baricitinib in a rhesus macaque model of SARS-CoV-2 infection. Viral shedding measured from nasal and

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PIER MARIA FORNASARI
2020-11-09

Hydroxychloroquine does not benefit adults hospitalized with COVID-19

A National Institutes of Health clinical trial evaluating the safety and effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine for the treatment of adults with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has formally concluded that the drug provides no clinical benefit to hospitalized patients. Though found not to cause harm, early findings in June when the trial was stopped indicated that the

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PIER MARIA FORNASARI
2020-11-09

Final report of the NIAID Adaptive COVID-19 Treatment Trial (ACTT-1) confirms remdesivir benefits for COVID-19

Remdesivir is an antiviral medication that targets a range of viruses. It was originally developed over a decade ago to treat hepatitis C and a cold-like virus called respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). Remdesivir wasn’t an effective treatment for either disease. But it showed promise against other viruses. Researchers tested remdesivir in clinical trials during the

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PIER MARIA FORNASARI
2020-11-09

Gene therapy technique to regenerate the optic nerve offers hope for future glaucoma treatment

Scientists at University of Cambridge have used gene therapy to regenerate damaged nerve fibres in the eye, in a discovery that could aid the development of new treatments for glaucoma, one of the leading causes of blindness worldwide. Axons – nerve fibres – in the adult central nervous system (CNS) do not normally regenerate after

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