Coronavirus: HIV drugs can be used in severe cases, says ICMR
According to ICMR experts, the inclusion of the anti-HIV drugs for treating Covid-19 was based on earlier evidence about their effectiveness against SARS and MERS coronaviruses that led to outbreaks in different parts of the world in 2002-03 and 2012, respectively, as well as the docking studies conducted by National Institute of Virology, Pune. (Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News)
Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News - March 14, 2020 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Trump ’s State of Emergency Is an Admission of Failure by the U.S. Government
President Donald Trump’s declaration of a national emergency is designed to speed federal support to parts of America that are struggling to prepare for a coming surge of COVID-19 cases, unlocking $50 billion in aid, giving hospitals and doctors more freedom to handle a potential tsunami of sick patients and scrambling to make tests available. In a Rose Garden press conference Friday, Trump presented the emergency measures as proof that, “No nation is more prepared or more equipped to face down this crisis.”
But for epidemiologists, medical experts and current and former U.S. public health officials, the ...
Source: TIME: Health - March 13, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: W.J. Hennigan Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Source Type: news
Roche ’s cobas SARS-CoV-2 Test to detect novel coronavirus receives FDA Emergency Use Authorization and is available in markets accepting the CE mark
Basel, 13 March 2020 - Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for the cobas ® SARS-CoV-2 Test. It is intended for the qualitative detection of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 disease, in nasopharyngeal and oropharyngeal swab samples from patients who meet COVID-19 clinical and/or epidemiological criteria for testing. Hospitals and reference laboratories can run the test on Roche’s fully automated cobas® 6800 and cobas® 8800 Systems, which are widely available in the U.S. and...
Source: Roche Media News - March 13, 2020 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
AMA Manual of Style updates coronavirus nomenclature
(Oxford University Press USA) The AMA Manual of Style addresses coronavirus (CoV) in section 14.14.3, Virus Nomenclature, which includes information on Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV). (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - March 12, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) – Qatar
On 18 February 2020, the National IHR Focal Point for Qatar reported one laboratory-confirmed case of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus infection (MERS-CoV) to WHO. (Source: WHO Disease Outbreaks)
Source: WHO Disease Outbreaks - March 12, 2020 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: news Source Type: news
Africa: Coronavirus - How Big, How Bad, and What to Look Out For
[The Conversation Africa] Cases of illness from the new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) disease, known as COVID-19, have been confirmed in more than 100 countries. The outbreak was first recorded in China in December last year. Coronaviruses are a family of viruses that cause illnesses that can range from a common cold to more severe diseases such as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). The Conversation Africa's Ina Skosana spoke to Shabir Madhi about the situation. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - March 11, 2020 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Don ’t Blame China. The Next Pandemic Could Come from Anywhere
The northern side of Chatuchak Weekend Market feels a bit like Noah has hit hard times and decided to offload the entire contents of his Ark. In wooden cages, bright-plumed fighting cocks squawk and peck. Around the corner are snakes in plastic takeout containers, prices scrawled on them in sharpie. Hairless squirrel kits snooze in a pile as a meerkat and giant iguana gaze on. A pygmy monkey leaps about with a furious scowl, perhaps indignant at the 30,000 baht ($950) price tag fixed to his enclosure. Across the narrow alleyway, a lynx prowls restlessly within its cage. “He’s 250,000 baht [$7,900],” says ...
Source: TIME: Health - March 11, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Charlie Campbell / Bangkok Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 News Desk overnight Source Type: news
The Tokyo Olympics Are on for Now — But the Clock Is Ticking
(TOKYO) — The tentacles of canceling the Tokyo Olympics — or postponing or staging it in empty venues — would reach into every corner of the globe, much like the spreading virus that now imperils the opening ceremony on July 24.
The International Olympic Committee and local organizers say the games are on, but the clock is ticking.
The fate of the Tokyo Games touches 11,000 Olympic and 4,400 Paralympic athletes, coaches and sports officials, local organizers, the Japanese government and national morale, international broadcasters, fans and world sponsors. Add to this hotels, airlines and taxi drivers &mda...
Source: TIME: Health - March 10, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Stephen Wade and Graham Wade / AP Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 News Desk wire Source Type: news
Coronavirus Drug and Vaccine Studies Are Recruiting Their First Volunteers
This study, says Kalil, is also designed to be more flexible than most drug trials. “This is not just a remdesivir trial,” he says. “It will test as many [COVID-19] therapies as possible, and remdesivir is just the first. Let’s say a couple of months from now, we realize that remdesivir is a good drug, that it works better than placebo…. Then patients receiving the placebo would be offered the drug and we would move on to test another drug. If remdesivir turns out not to be effective, then we would remove it from the study and bring another drug to test against placebo. It’s a dynamic, f...
Source: TIME: Science - March 10, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Infectious Disease Source Type: news
Coronavirus Drug and Vaccine Studies Are Recruiting Their First Volunteers
This study, says Kalil, is also designed to be more flexible than most drug trials. “This is not just a remdesivir trial,” he says. “It will test as many [COVID-19] therapies as possible, and remdesivir is just the first. Let’s say a couple of months from now, we realize that remdesivir is a good drug, that it works better than placebo…. Then patients receiving the placebo would be offered the drug and we would move on to test another drug. If remdesivir turns out not to be effective, then we would remove it from the study and bring another drug to test against placebo. It’s a dynamic, f...
Source: TIME: Health - March 10, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Infectious Disease Source Type: news
ADA releases coronavirus handout for dentists based on CDC guidelines
Dentists should follow standard precautions at all timesFebruary 24, 2020 By Mary Beth VersaciThe American Dental Association has released aninformational handout for dentists on the coronavirus disease, now named COVID-19.The handout covers strategies for helping prevent the transmission of suspected respiratory disease in the dental health care setting and answers frequently asked questions related to the virus, based onguidelines from theCenters for Disease Control and Prevention.Similar to patients with other flu-like illnesses, patients with COVID-19 have reported mild to severe symptoms such as fever, cough...
Source: Dental Technology Blog - March 9, 2020 Category: Dentistry Source Type: news
The WHO Estimated COVID-19 Mortality at 3.4%. That Doesn ’t Tell the Whole Story
Nobody had ever seen the coronavirus that causes the disease known as COVID-19 before the current outbreak began in China in December 2019. So for context, it is often compared to a symptomatically similar disease we know well: the seasonal flu, which infects many people each year but kills only about 0.1% of them on average.
Many people were alarmed, then, when the World Health Organization announced in March that COVID-19 has killed 3.4% of the people who have caught it so far—a mortality rate far higher than not only the seasonal flu, but also higher than earlier COVID-19 mortality estimates, which were around 2%....
Source: TIME: Health - March 9, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme and Elijah Wolfson Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Source Type: news
Coronavirus: Ten Reasons Why You Ought Not to Panic
This article is republished from The Conversation. Read the original article.
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Excerpt: Ignacio López-Goñi is microbiologist and works in University of Navarra (Spain).
The post Coronavirus: Ten Reasons Why You Ought Not to Panic appeared first on Inter Press Service. (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health)
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - March 7, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Ignacio Lopez Goni Tags: Global Headlines Health Coronavirus Source Type: news
COVID-19: investigation and initial clinical management of possible cases Updated guidance
The guidance has been updated to add consideration of MERS testing for relevant travellers. (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - March 5, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Wuhan CT scans reliable for coronavirus (COVID-19) diagnosis, limited for differentiation
(American Roentgen Ray Society) An American Journal of Roentgenology open-access article by radiologists from Wuhan, China concluded that chest CT had a low rate of misdiagnosis of COVID-19 (3.9%, 2/51) and could help standardize imaging features and rules of transformation for rapid diagnosis; however, CT remains limited for the identification of specific viruses and distinguishing between viruses. The authors also found CT features of COVID-19 that differ from both severe acute respiratory syndrome and Middle East respiratory syndrome. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - March 5, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
