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Wednesday, 23 October 2024

India reopens stores as some virus lockdowns ease globally

A tentative easing around the world of coronavirus lockdowns gathered pace Saturday with the reopening in India of neighborhood stores that many of the country’s 1.3 billion people rely on for everything from cold drinks to mobile phone data cards. The U.S. states of Georgia, Oklahoma and Alaska also began…

COVID-19-drugs: These anti-inflammatories protect against SARS-COV-2 – Naturopathy naturopathy specialist portal

Drugs against auto-protect-immune diseases before COVID-19 So-called cytokine inhibitors are drugs used inflammation for auto-immune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis or bowel. A German research team has now shown that people taking such drugs show no signs of a SARS-CoV-2 infection. Researchers at the Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) found…

Elizabeth Hurley, 54, Just Showed Off Her Toned Abs In A Red String Bikini

Elizabeth Hurley, 54, just showed off her toned abs in a new bikini Instagram. She stays fit by eating nutritious foods, getting active outside, and doing relaxing activities. Instead of traditional gym workouts, Elizabeth prefers to garden and use her chainsaw. Spring is really and truly here. Elizabeth Hurley says…

Clinical trial for drug to treat severe COVID-19 patients

Yale researchers will begin a clinical trial at Yale-New Haven Hospital to test the effectiveness of a drug called ibudilast (MN-166) for treating acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), a life-threatening lung condition developed by some of the most seriously ill COVID-19 patients. The researchers are part of Yale’s Advanced Therapies…

Low-cost ventilatory support for COVID-19 patients

A research team at Leeds has developed a way of creating a ventilatory system for COVID-19 patients that can be made rapidly on a 3-D printer. It is a low-tech solution based on redesigning an existing medical device known as a Venturi valve. It does not need electricity and has…

Sanfilippo C syndrome: New brain cell models to evaluate therapies

The Sanfilippo syndrome type C is a severe neurodegenerative disease which appears during the first years of life and for which there is no treatment yet. A recent study, published in Journal of Clinical Medicine, has created brain cell models of neurons and astrocytes that allow researchers to better understand…

COVID-19 vaccine not certain: global alliance Gavi

The race is on to produce a vaccine against COVID-19 but it is not certain that one can be found, the head of the global vaccines alliance said Friday. Seth Berkley said the more competition the better in the scientific fightback against the new coronavirus pandemic, which has killed nearly…