Using over a century of data from other pandemics, and applying knowledge about the current COVID-19 infection, researchers predict the long term effects coronavirus will have on the brain and nervous system.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Making Music Good Medicine
Researchers explore the health and wellbeing benefits of music, from improving creativity to helping boost mood.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Potential New Treatment Strategy for Stroke
Treatment with LAU-0901, a synthetic molecule that blocks pro-inflammatory platelet-activating factor, in addition to aspirin-triggered NPD1, reduced the size of damage areas in the brain, initiated repair mechanisms, and improved behavioral recovery f…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Neuroscientists Isolate Promising Mini Antibodies Against COVID-19 From a Llama
Researchers have isolated a set of antibodies from a llama which show promise for the treatment of COVID-19. The NIH-CoVnB-112 nanoantibody bound to ACE2 receptors up to ten times stronger than other lab-produced antibodies. The nanoantibody stuck dire…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Antidepressant May Prevent Severe COVID-19, Trial Suggests
A new small scale study reveals the antidepressant fluvoxamine may be a new tool in the fight against COVID-19. Researchers report fluvoxamine reduced the severity of coronavirus symptoms and hospitalizations.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Study Confirms Spit Testing May Help Doctors Diagnose Concussions
Altered microRNA levels in a person’s saliva can help determine if they have experienced a recent concussion. The new saliva test is a cheap and non-invasive method for the identification of concussion.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Placebos Prove Powerful Even When People Know They’re Taking One
Placebos reduce biomarkers in the brain of emotional distress, even when a patient knows they are taking one.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Widely available indigestion drug may curb COVID-19 symptoms in mild to moderate disease
Famotidine (Pepcid AC), an over-the-counter medication used to treat indigestion, shows promise as a potential treatment for COVID-19.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Preventing ‘cytokine storm’ may ease severe COVID-19 symptoms
Treating coronavirus patients with alpha-blockers may help prevent the cytokine storm associated with severe COVID-19 infection. Alpha-blockers interfere with the cell signaling that triggers cytokine storms. Mice with bacterial infections that were tr…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: No improvement in death rate for COVID-19 patients who received hydroxychloroquine
Coronavirus patients treated with chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine are significantly more likely to experience ventricular arrhythmias than those who were treated with other medications. The study also revealed that out of 100,000 COVID-19 patients wh…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Antiviral drug can speed up recovery of COVID-19 patient
Interferon-a2b an antiviral treatment shows promise in helping to speed up the recovery of patients with severe COVID-19 infections. IFN-a2b improves viral clearance and decreases the levels of inflammatory markers in coronavirus patients.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Evidence Does Not Support Chloroquine or HCQ Use Alone or in Combination with Azithromycin as Prophylaxis for COVID-19
Researchers find no beneficial evidence to support the use of chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine, either used alone or in combination with azithromycin, for the treatment of COVID-19.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Arthritis drug Anakinra may improve respiratory function in some patients with severe COVID-19
Anakinra, a clinically approved anti-inflammatory used to treat rheumatoid arthritis, improves respiratory function in patients with severe COVID-19 infection.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Stroke clot-buster drugs could be harnessed to tackle COVID-19
An aerosolized version of tissue plasminogen activator (tPA), a clot-busing drug commonly used for the treatment of stroke patients, could target blood clots that form as a result of severe coronavirus infection.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Arthritis Drug Presents Promise as Treatment for COVID-19 Pneumonia
UCSD has launched a Phase III clinical trial to assess whether tocilizumab (Actemra), a drug commonly prescribed for rheumatoid arthritis and other inflammatory disorders, has therapeutic value for those at risk of developing severe COVID-19 infection….
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Temporarily suppressing immune system during early COVID-19 infection may prevent severe symptoms
A new mathematical model examined the immune response in patients with coronavirus. The findings suggest adaptive immune response may kick in before target immune cells are depleted, slowing the infection. The interaction of the innate and adaptive imm…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Schizophrenia drug combined with radiation shows promise in treating deadly brain tumors
Trifluoperazine, a dopamine receptor antagonist commonly prescribed for schizophrenia, used in combination with radiation therapy delays the growth of glioblastoma brain tumors and prolongs survival for brain cancer.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Experts warn against malarial drugs as a cure for coronavirus
Researchers warn early encouraging signals from small-scale preliminary trials for the use of hydroxychloroquine to treat coronavirus should be taken with caution. Current evidence suggests chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine can not be used as a genera…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: COVID-19 study shows that men have over double the death rate of women
Males who contract COVID-19 have 2.5 times the death rate of women. Being males is a significant risk factor for worse disease severity, regardless of age. Researchers found a similar trend in data from the 2003 SARS outbreak. The study speculates the …
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: How general anesthesia works
Rodent studies reveal how general anesthesia dampens high-frequency brain activity by weakening synapses.
