COVID-19
New Oral Rinse COVID Test Gets FDA Emergency Use OK
Access Genetics, LLC dba OralDNA® Labs announces that FDA has issued an amended Emergency Use Authorization for the OraRisk® COVID-19 RT-PCR test allowing testing from a saline oral rinse collection. This is the first Emergency Use Authorization for a simple saline 30-second swish and gargle collection. It eliminates the needRead
Silent COVID-19 Patients as Virulent as Those with Symptoms
People with silent COVID-19 infection have as much coronavirus in their noses and throats as those with symptoms, reveals research published online in the journal Thorax. Given how many of these people there are, a fifth of those infected, the study findings show, they may have a key role inRead
New Research Illuminates Polarizing Roles of IL-17 for Respiratory Distress and Mind-Body Connection
Commentary: COVID-19: a case for inhibiting IL-17? The cytokine, IL-17 has been in the news lately, but for very different reasons. We look at two areas of research: COVID-19 and the brain — one with a negative role the other positive. The cytokine’s predominant role is dependent on where itRead
Integrative Medicine Research Journal: Special COVID-19 Issue
The Sept. 2020 special edition of the Integrative Medicine Research Journal is dedicated exclusively to COVID-19 research. For your ease of use, we’ve compiled all the articles here in a list. Please click through to each article, all are open access. Editors Drs. Myeong SooLee, Eunhye Song write: “Given theseRead
It’s Not Kawasaki … It’s PIMS-TS in Children with COVID-19
Researchers have uncovered how the immune system is altered in a rare coronavirus related illness in children with COVID-19 referred to as pediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome (PIMS-TS). PIMS-TS is a rare syndrome which has emerged in a small number of children during the COVID-19 pandemic. The condition causes severe inflammationRead
The Functional Medicine Approach to COVID-19: Virus Specific Nutraceutical and Botanical Agents
ABSTRACT/ In this article, The Functional Medicine Approach to COVID-19: Virus Specific Nutraceutical and Botanical Agents, from our partners at Integrative Medicine, a Clinician’s Journal, leading experts in functional medicine evaluate twelve interventions. By Evans JM, Luby R, Lukaczer D, Rountree R, Stone PM, Guilliams TG, Yanuck S, Messier H,Read
Inflammatory Cytokine Markers Predict COVID Severity and Survival
Mount Sinai scientists have identified primary markers of inflammation IL-6 and TNF-α reliably predict COVID severity and likelihood of survival. This is providing a foundation for a diagnostic platform and therapeutic targets, according to a study published in Nature Medicine. The researchers studied four proteins serum interleukin (IL)-6, IL-8, tumorRead
3D Imaging Models Clearly Diagnose COVID-19
An Louisiana State University Health Science Center radiologist and evolutionary anatomist have teamed up to show the same techniques used for research on reptile and bird lungs can be used to help confirm the diagnosis of COVID-19 in patients. Their paper published in BMJ Case Reports demonstrates that 3D modelsRead
Low Plasma Vitamin D Associated with Increased Risk of COVID-19 Infection
The collaborative group of scientists from the Leumit Health Services (LHS) and the Azrieli Faculty of Medicine of Bar-Ilan University aimed to determine associations of low plasma vitamin D with the risk of COVID-19 infection and hospitalization. Using the real-world data and Israeli cohort of 782 COVID-19 positive patients andRead
New Pathway & Bradykinin Storm Found in COVID-19 Inflammatory Response
Analyses of lung fluid cells from COVID-19 patients conducted on the nation’s fastest supercomputer point to gene expression patterns that may explain the COVID-19 inflammatory response and runaway symptoms produced by the body’s response to SARS-CoV-2. A team led by Dan Jacobson of the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge NationalRead
