The European Medicine Agency (EMA) human medicines committee (CHMP) just recommended granting an extension of indication for the COVID-19 vaccine Comirnaty, the mRNA-based vaccine, to include use in children aged 5 to 11. The vaccine, developed by BioNTech and Pfizer,...
Researchers from the North Bristol NHS Trust, Academic Respiratory Unit in Bristol, UK, recently uploaded study results to the medRxiv preprint server. The study team sought to identify if the corticosteroid dexamethasone, proven to reduce COVID-19 mortality in...
African timing plot twist The timing of announcements by the South African and Botswana governments, regarding a new ‘Omicron’ variant with 32 spike protein mutations, sent waves of fear but also disbelief around the world. Hong Kong announced two fully vaccinated...
While a Phase 3 clinical trial investigating Merck’s molnupiravir in the Philippines seeks patients this isn’t a surprise given the imminent accessibility the drug now has to the local patient market. Currently allowed for compassionate use at several Philippines...
Standard Medicine principal investigators will receive nearly $15 million over a four-year term from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study long COVID. Stanford is but one of 30 research teams involved with the imminent, nationwide, NIH-sponsored RECOVER...
In what could be considered a striking discovery researchers form Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital found that people taking the alcoholism drug disulfiram were 34% less likely to succumb to a SARS-CoV-2 infection, the virus behind COVID-19....
In a follow up to a story TrialSite first ran on November 15, a Chicago area judge “stood up” to Edward Hospital and ordered the medical institution to administer ivermectin to a “dying man.” “What’s the downside?’, asked Circuit Judge Paul Fullerton, according...
Another variant of coronavirus has been identified, this time the particle named B.1.1.529 seems to have a dangerous potential to generate a new wave of infections not only in its place of origin, South Africa but worldwide. According to the bioinformatics Túlio...
What does most research about whether there is natural immunity against SARS-CoV-2 have to say about this topic? While national, regional, and local governments focus on controlling the pandemic primarily through the use of testing, vaccination, emerging treatments,...
Depending on what media one follows, the world could be either viewed as one with a dire shortage of COVID-19 vaccines, such as what World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom described recently, or one increasingly awash in surplus...
n case you hadn’t heard, the “medicinal psychedelics industry” is growing furiously, with over 150 clinical trials underway. Hardly a week goes by without a new university center, startup or venture funding announcement. Almost all within just the last 5 years. A sign...
The Mayo Clinic released a study on Nov. 1 revealing that Minnesota residents from Olmsted County who received the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine are 3.7 times more likely to develop blood clots. The Study Published by the JAMA network,...
Recently, Australian and Southern California physician-researchers involved in a new microbiome venture in Ventura, California further probed a finding involving stool detections. Specifically, the research group identified SARS-CoV-2 not only in respiratory...
There’s an interesting debate happening over vaccine mandates, and it’s in an unlikely place. The National Institute of Health, the workplace of Dr. Anthony Fauci, who is a mandate advocate. According to a November 7th article in The Wall Street Journal, the...
Peter Doshi, Ph. D. an associate professor of Pharmaceutical Health Services Research at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, spoke out against vaccine mandates during a five-minute testimony he gave at a panel held by Senator Ron Johnson R-WIS., chair of...