Loperamide, a drug used to treat diarrhea, can induce cell death in cultured glioblastoma, a deadly and incurable form of brain tumor that usually does not respond well to chemotherapy, said scientists from the Goethe University in Frankfurt. According to MedicalXpress, the authors of the study found that in some types of tumor cells, loperamide…
First, the good news: The Moderna vaccine will likely be going into people’s arms Monday, boosting the number of Americans who will start getting inoculated against Covid-19. Now, the bad news: Most Americans can’t get vaccinated until next year. In the meantime, new infections, hospitalizations and deaths keep soaring, prompting health experts to urge the…
The overwhelming amount of loss we’ve experienced during this pandemic is in stark contrast to what is supposedly the happiest time of the year. Nine months to a year into the crisis, depending on where you live, nearly 2 million people around the world have died from Covid-19. And that’s in addition to the thousands more…
Many people from Eluru, a city in India’s southern state of Andhra Pradesh, have come down with a strange illness: one person has already died because of the disease, and no less than 227 have been hospitalized, the Times of India reports. According to experts, the mysterious disease manifests itself with a wide range of…
Men infected with COVID-19 are three times more likely to need intensive care than women. They have an increased risk of death as well, the scientists from The University of Cape Town (South Africa) reported. The results of their research were published in the Nature Communications journal. Experts analyzed more than three million confirmed COVID-19…
While overall drug overdoses among youth are infrequent, non-fatal overdoses were on the rise in children under the age of 15 between 2016 and 2019, a new study finds. The rise appears to be driven by stimulants such as cocaine and amphetamines like meth and ecstasy, according to the study published Monday in the journal…
The COVID-19 can cause irreversible damage to the lungs, and a patient with such complications can only be saved with a transplant of this organ, said Northwestern University scientists in their article published on Science Translational Medicine. They analyzed lung tissue of three patients who required a lung transplant due to persistent respiratory failure caused…
Moderna will ask the FDA on Monday for emergency use authorization (EUA) for its coronavirus vaccine, the pharmaceutical company said in a news release. Moderna says it expects the FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee to review the vaccine Dec.17. If the committee approves the EUA, the vaccine will be shipped to distribution…
Winter could worsen the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists at University College London reported. A new study published in the International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology has shown that global temperature may play a significant role in the spread of SARS-CoV-2. The study authors analyzed data on global air temperature. Based on temperatures in March and…
Back in June, interest started swirling around mouthwash and its potential effects on SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. The information then came from a meta-analysis published in the journal Function, which posed a theory: Based on mouthwash’s ability to disrupt or damage the outer layer of other enveloped viruses, or viruses that have a…
