Danish physicians and scientists affiliated with that Nordic nation's prestigious Statens Serum Institut in Copenhagen and Zealand University Hospital in Naestved report that a study involving 128 patients published in the peer-reviewed JAMA Network Open reveals a...
With what seems like a continually unfolding and mutating Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2, what is known about this variant, and it’s sub-variants? Is Omicron more transmissible yet less severe in impact? If so, why are some countries such as Australia, New Zealand, and...
While the COVID-19 vaccines have reduced the number of severe infections and deaths, they haven’t stopped viral transmission. This past weekend, mainstream media now reports, a big elite get-together involving top journalists, the Gridiron Dinner in...
Israel has continually been at the center of the pandemic, and the world continues to monitor its fight against the disease. Having just withstood a surge of the new BA.2 variant, the Mideastern state appears to be in a “move on” or “just get used to it” mode....
While much of the UK’s population now desire to go about life as usual, especially since the government declared times were almost back to normal, unfortunately, the unfolding situation informs a starkly different reality for the heavily vaccinated population. While...
A meta-analysis, a synthesis of 151 studies on seroprevalence in Africa between January 2020 and December 2021 and now uploaded to a preprint server while under peer review suggests up to 65% of Africans, continent-wide, have already been infected with SARS-CoV-2, the...
A new SARS-CoV-2 subvariant has emerged from China’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Also, a new subvariant surfaced in the UK. As reported in the government-owned Global Times, this new subvariant labeled BA.1.1 doesn’t look to match the existing...
Do groupthink and politics drive federal healthcare policy, including U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulatory decisions? TrialSite has suggested for nearly a couple of years now that a growing gap exists between actual science and COVID-19 federal...
Many states in the U.S. have been moving forward with legislation making the “controversial” medication ivermectin available over the counter, allowing physicians to prescribe the drug and pharmacists to dispense the medication without suffering a legal penalty....
Tennessee appears to be the latest state moving forward with two bills to allow people to purchase ivermectin as an alternative treatment for COVID-19. One bill, SB 2746, is being proposed by Republican State Representative Susan Lynn, and...
The French biotech company MedinCell announced it has treated the first participants in the SAIVE study last week, the 400-participant, multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study with an independent Data Monitoring Committee, conducted...
Has evidence-based medicine been corrupted by a confluence of corporate interests, regulatory capture, and academia obsessed with monetization? This absolutely is the case argues a prominent academic psychiatrist from University of Adelaide and a well-known...
By Stephen Ditmore Acute COVID-19 Clinical Trials There are four clinical trials of Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) as an acute COVID-19 therapeutic in the United States, two of which are currently recruiting. Statera BioPharma (formerly Cytocom), which calls its...
Judicial Watch, the conservative legal watch group, has filed a new complaint in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia this week against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to compel compliance with public records laws after the...
A Polish research team used a spectroscopy technique called Raman imaging to conduct a preclinical study of the effect of COVID-19 mRNA (Pfizer/BioNT) vaccine on in vitro glial cells of the brain. Lodz University Research Team The team members include Halina...