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Apr 18, 2020

Covid-19 is shattering US cancer care

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

American oncologists are rushing to prioritise the patients at greatest risk, institute new protections, and learn from their collective experiences, Bryn Nelson reports.

A patient in Washington, newly diagnosed with breast cancer, fought to get her lumpectomy surgery rescheduled after it was cancelled indefinitely. 1 A stuffy nose required another patient in Massachusetts with a recurrent brain tumour to undergo multiple layers of screening before he could receive his immunotherapy infusion. 2 A patient with bladder cancer in North Carolina couldn’t get immunotherapy at all because of a lack of surgical masks and gloves. 3 Then he was denied a surgical alternative because he needed a covid-19 test first. Since he hadn’t been admitted to a hospital with serious covid-19 symptoms, he didn’t meet the testing criteria.

Covid-19 has wreaked havoc on cancer care throughout the US as medical centres scramble to cancel or rearrange surgeries or treatments, tackle a continuing shortage of tests and supplies, and devise new safety protocols to protect a highly susceptible patient group.

Apr 18, 2020

Seeking COVID-19’s New Hope in Scripps Research’s Collection of Old Drugs

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In an effort to find an effective antiviral drug against SARS-CoV-2. Calibr, the drug development division of Scripps Research, is leveraging a unique resource—the ReFRAME drug collection. The ReFRAME drug collection comprises over 14,000 compounds that have been approved by the FDA for other diseases. A medicine identified from this resource could be rapidly repurposed.

Apr 18, 2020

COVID-19 — Natural Antivirals and Immune Boosters

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, health

Natural antiviral and immune boosters (elderberry, curcumin, echinacea, quercetin etc), a new practical guide by Forever Healthy Foundation: “… We identified 50 natural substances and mixtures recommended for preventing infection with SARS-CoV-2 or lessening the severity of symptoms of COVID-19. As there hasn’t been enough time for the scientific community to conduct clinical trials on the effects of any of the compounds on SARS-CoV-2, we chose to recommend substances with established safety that have shown strong antiviral/immunomodulatory effects in previously conducted clinical trials or clinical practice.

This resulted in a final recommendation for 8 natural compounds, 4 that have shown activity against other coronaviruses and that have strong immunomodulatory effects (see Recommended Based on Scientific Literature) along with 4 further compounds that have traditionally been used for prevention/treatment of viral infections with a long record of efficacy and safety (see Recommended Based on Clinical Practice).

Additionally, we found there is some supporting evidence for 23 more substances, discussed in the Potentially Useful section…” https://brain.forever-healthy.org/plugins/servlet/mobile?con…/101057620


This Practical Guide is part of Forever Healthy’s “Maximizing Health” initiative that s eeks to holistically review the world’s leading medical knowledge on various health-related topics and turn it into actionable information.

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Apr 18, 2020

Antibody tests suggest that coronavirus infections vastly exceed official counts

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Study estimates a more than 50-fold increase in coronavirus infections compared to official cases, but experts have raised concerns about the reliability of antibody kits.

Apr 18, 2020

Coronavirus Outbreak? No Worries, Nanotechnology Is There to Help!

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, health, nanotechnology

Many researchers from all around the world have joined forces to fight the ongoing coronavirus outbreak that very recently originated in Wuhan, China. As always, nanotechnology does have a solution for almost every problem we face, including now-struggling global health: a nanoparticle-based coronavirus vaccine was successfully developed.

Apr 18, 2020

How did the Bubonic Plague make the Italian Renaissance possible?

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, economics, food

The Black Death (1347−1350) was a pandemic that devastated the populations of Europe and Asia. The plague was an unprecedented human tragedy in Italy. It not only shook Italian society but transformed it. The Black Death marked an end of an era in Italy, its impact was profound, and it resulted in wide-ranging social, economic, cultural and religious changes.[1] These changes, directly and indirectly, led to the emergence of the Renaissance, one of the greatest epochs for art, architecture, and literature in human history.

The Impact of the Plague of Italy

To Black Death spread to Italy from modern-day Russia. Genoese merchants spread the plague while fleeing a Mongol attack on their trading post in Crimea. The plague was carried and spread by the fleas that lived on the Black Rat and brought to Italy on the Genoese ships.[2] The population of Italy was ill prepared for the spread of the disease. There had been a series of famine and food shortages in the region, and the population was weak and vulnerable to disease, and furthermore, the population did not have any natural resistance to the disease. Italy was the most urbanized society in Europe, Milan, Rome, Florence, and other Italian centers among the largest on the continent.[3].

Apr 18, 2020

Podcast #44: The Post Covid-19 Future, Part 1, Urban and Social Issues with Cindy Frewen

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“If a severe pandemic materializes, all of society could pay a heavy price for decades of failing to create a rational system of health care that works for all of us.”–Irwin Redlener.

Apr 18, 2020

How Data Is Critical to Engineering Antibodies to Block COVID-19

Posted by in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical

Shahrad Daraeikia, Jack Wang, and Dr. Jean-Philippe Buerckert sit down together with Harry Glorikian at MoneyBall Medicine to talk about our ultra rapid antibody discovery race to a cure for COVID19.


Episode Summary

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Apr 18, 2020

What Will The World Look Like After the Corona Virus?

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, education, robotics/AI

Hey all! I hope you are doing fine despite the coronavirus outbreak! I have just made a video about what the world will look like immediately after the coronavirus outbreak. If this is interesting to you, please check it out!


Ever wondered what the world will look like after the corona virus (COVID-19) pandemic is over? In this video, I go over how our society could change for years or even decades to come after the corona virus pandemic is over. Topics I talk about include how religion, education, lifestyle, and automation after the pandemic.

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Apr 18, 2020

How Cannabis Cleans Up Nuclear Radiation And Toxic Soil

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, economics, government

Europe’s largest steel mill is in the city of Taranto in southern Italy. In its heyday, the ILVA steel plant produced more than 10 million tons of steel every year—about 40 percent of all the steel made in Italy—and it currently employs about 12,000 people.

This is no small deal in an area where unemployment is north of 20 percent; indeed, the local economy of Taranto, population 200,000, is almost entirely dependent on the steel mill —which is also one of the biggest and most deadly polluters of anywhere in the Mediterranean.

The plant is a notorious source of dioxin, and dust from the plant is believed to be the reason why Taranto has a lung cancer rate 30 percent higher than the national average. It’s so toxic that farmers have been forbidden from raising livestock within a 20-kilometer radius of the plant; in 2008, the government ordered the slaughter of thousands of sheep and other animals that were found to have excessively high levels of dioxin.