Biomarkers Identified to Predict Severe Dengue
Researchers have identified a combination of biological markers in patients with dengue that could help clinicians triage and predict whether ...
Tag: Medicine-Health
How COVID-19 Pandemic Changes Medical Research, Teaching and Patient Care
A virtual presentation on “How COVID-19 Pandemic Changes Medical Research, Teaching and Patient Care” will be held on March 20, ...
Does Your Child Have MIS-C, COVID-19 or Kawasaki Disease?
Exposure to SARS-Co-V2, the virus that causes COVID-19, can put otherwise healthy children and adolescents at risk for Multisystem Inflammatory ...
Integrating Inflammation and Coagulation in COVID-19
The National Institutes of Health COVID-19 Scientific Interest Group will host a webcast on Integrating Inflammation and Coagulation in COVID-19 ...
UC San Diego Awarded NIH Funding for Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx)
University of California San Diego was awarded five Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx) projects by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), totaling ...
Naval Medical Center San Diego Administers Hospital’s First mAb Treatment to COVID-19 Patient
Naval Medical Center San Diego (NMCSD) administered the hospital’s first monoclonal antibody (mAb) treatment to a COVID-19-positive patient Jan. 26. ...
NSAIDs Might Exacerbate or Suppress COVID-19 Depending on Timing
New research shows that non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) reduced both antibody and inflammatory responses to SARS-CoV-2 infection in mice. The ...
Large Clinical Trial in Africa Tests Treatments for Mild and Moderate COVID-19 Cases
Thirteen African countries and an international network of research institutions have joined forces to launch the largest COVID-19 clinical trial ...
Attributes and Predictors of Long-COVID
Long-COVID is characterized by symptoms of fatigue, headache, dyspnoea and anosmia. At the population level, it is critical to quantify ...
MIS-C Detection: BARDA Invests in Rapid Diagnostic for Pediatric Complication of SARS-CoV-2
In the United States, more than 1,000 children have been diagnosed with Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C), a severe ...
Dublin-Boston Scoring System Helps Predict Which COVID-19 Patients Will Develop Severe Infection
A new COVID-19 patient assessment system, called the Dublin-Boston score, is designed to enable clinicians to make more informed decisions ...
Autoimmune-Like Antibody Response Linked with Severe COVID-19
In the earliest days of the pandemic, many immunologists, including me, assumed that patients who produced high quantities of antibodies ...
Here’s What We Know So Far About Pediatric Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome (MIS-C)
While most children who get COVID-19 develop little more than a mild illness, several hundred have ended up in hospital ...
COVID-19 Patients Suffer Long-Term Heart and Lung Damage But It Can Improve With Time
At the time of their first follow-up visit after hospital discharge, CT scans still showed lung damage in 88% of ...
People with Zika Antibodies More Vulnerable to Severe Dengue Disease
Getting sick with the mosquito-borne Zika virus makes people more vulnerable to developing dengue disease later on, and to suffering ...
