Friday, November 29, 2024

PRINCIPLE trial finds antibiotics azithromycin and doxycycline not generally effective treatments for COVID-19

In March 2020, the UK-wide Platform Randomised trial of INterventions against COVID-19 In older people (PRINCIPLE) trial was established as a flexible.

Professor Houmin Yan receives CRF funding to combat Covid-19

A cross-institutional team led by Professor Houmin Yan has received HKD 4.3 million funding to support the battle against COVID-19 over the next three years.

NEWS2 evaluated for prediction of severe COVID-19 outcome in large international study

In the first systematic large-scale evaluation of the UK National Early Warning Risk Score (NEWS) 2 as a scoring system for predicting severe COVID-19 outcomes in patients...

Smoking associated with increased risk of COVID-19 symptoms

Smoking is associated with an increased risk of COVID-19 symptoms and smokers are more likely to attend hospital than non-smokers, a study has found.

CU Medicine Finds New Evidence for Link between Gut Microbiome and COVID-19 Severity

A recent study by the Faculty of Medicine at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CU Medicine) discovered that composition of gut microorganisms (microbiota) in COVID-19...

Machine learning tool gives early warning of cardiac issues in COVID-19 patients

New algorithm could warn doctors in advance of cardiac arrest or blood clots in hospitalized COVID-19 patients

COVID-19 transmission chains in the UK accurately traced using genomic epidemiology

Their analysis draws on >50k virus genome sequences – 26k of which were gathered through the COVID-19 Genomics UK (COG-UK) consortium

Why COVID-19 pneumonia lasts longer, causes more damage than typical pneumonia

Bacteria or viruses like influenza that cause pneumonia can spread across large regions of the lung within hours.

Nanoparticle Immunization Technology Could Protect Against Many Strains of Coronaviruses

The SARS-CoV-2 virus that is causing the COVID-19 pandemic is just one of many different viruses in the coronavirus family.

UChicago scientists create first computational model of entire virus responsible for COVID-19

Researchers at the University of Chicago have created the first usable computational model of the entire virus responsible for COVID-19—and they are making this model widely...
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