Broad Institute

JUNE 18, 2024

Simple test for flu could improve diagnosis and surveillance By Allessandra DiCorato June 18, 2024 Breadcrumb Home Simple test for flu could improve diagnosis and surveillance A low-cost CRISPR-based paper strip test distinguishes between influenza types and can be reprogrammed to recognize different viruses including the H5N1 bird flu virus.

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Drugs.com

JULY 17, 2023

MONDAY, July 17, 2023 (HealthDay Now) -- Parents now have a new long-acting drug to protect their children against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), a common germ that hospitalizes as many as 3% of children under the age of 1 in the United States.

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AUGUST 7, 2020

Individuals in hospitals and care homes are not included in the ONS survey, which has been estimating cases in private households since May. This means there are stricter rules on socialising for people living in these areas and for businesses, in order to control the spread of the virus. Source link.

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SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

JANUARY 16, 2024

In early 2020, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), a highly contagious and pathogenic virus, made its alarming debut and quickly spread worldwide, causing the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic that threatened human health and public safety.

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SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

JULY 13, 2023

As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) surges in young children occurred outside the usual November to March season, when immune-based prophylactic is available to protect children at high risk for severe illness.

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The Pharma Data

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

The disruption to hospitals in England during the pandemic has meant the number of patients facing long waits for routine operations has soared. But there are some encouraging signs, with treatments happening in hospitals on the increase. Image copyright. Getty Images. Image copyright. Getty Images.

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SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

JULY 19, 2023

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The Pharma Data

DECEMBER 17, 2020

(NASDAQ: REGN ) today announced that the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) has published initial clinical data from an ongoing seamless Phase 1/2/3 trial of the antibody cocktail casirivimab and imdevimab in non-hospitalized patients with COVID-19. “The investigational cocktail is now available to indicated high-risk U.S.

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The Pharma Data

OCTOBER 30, 2020

(NASDAQ: REGN) received today a recommendation from the independent data monitoring committee (IDMC) for the REGN-COV2 antibody cocktail treatment trials for COVID-19 that the current hospitalized patient trial be modified. About the REGN-COV2 Trial in Hospitalized Patients. Cohort 1A: patients not requiring oxygen.

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Broad Institute

JULY 11, 2024

Targeted drug treatment leads tumor cells to imitate viral infection By Ari Navetta July 11, 2024 Breadcrumb Home Targeted drug treatment leads tumor cells to imitate viral infection Exploiting "viral mimicry," mIDH1 inhibitors trick tumors into thinking they are infected with a virus. paper cited Wu M, Kondo H, et al.

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The Pharma Data

MARCH 8, 2021

The companies today reported findings on one secondary objective from the Phase 2a study, showing a reduction in time (days) to negativity of infectious virus isolation in nasopharyngeal swabs from participants with symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection, as determined by isolation in Vero cell line culture. This press release features multimedia.

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The Pharma Data

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Regeneron announced today an update from the independent data monitoring committee (DMC) for the United Kingdom-based RECOVERY trial evaluating REGN-COV2 in hospitalized patients with COVID-19.

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Broad Institute

DECEMBER 13, 2023

One study was led by senior authors Evan Macosko , an institute member at the Broad and associate professor and attending psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital, and Fei Chen , a core institute member at the Broad and an assistant professor in the Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology at Harvard University.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

The device is already being used in eight NHS hospitals to quickly identify patients who are carrying the virus. ” If the lab tests said the patient was free of the virus, so did the rapid test. If the lab tests said the patient had the virus, the rapid test agreed 94% of the time. “ Follow James on Twitter.

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The Pharma Data

AUGUST 13, 2020

Piyush Madhani decided to take part in the study “to contribute to the understanding and cure of this virus” A man who had Covid-19 has become the first to take part in what is thought to be the UK’s largest study into how the virus affects people after they leave hospital. It has been granted £8.4m

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The Pharma Data

JANUARY 7, 2021

7, 2021 — The American Red Cross is urging COVID-19 survivors to donate blood plasma for hospital patients who need it to recover. The Red Cross is especially asking those who have recovered from COVID-19 to give blood because more donors are needed to help hospital patients. THURSDAY, Jan. More Information. © 2021 HealthDay.

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The Pharma Data

JANUARY 6, 2021

6, 2021 — The American Red Cross is urging COVID-19 survivors to donate blood plasma for hospital patients who need it to recover. The Red Cross is especially asking those who have recovered from COVID-19 to give blood because more donors are needed to help hospital patients. WEDNESDAY, Jan. Those who donate between Jan.

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The Pharma Data

OCTOBER 28, 2020

REGN-COV2 significantly reduced viral load and patient medical visits (hospitalizations, emergency room, urgent care visits and/or physician office/telemedicine visits). In the overall patient group with detectable virus at baseline, the average daily reduction in viral load through day 7 was a 0.36 There was a 1.08

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The Pharma Data

AUGUST 3, 2020

Although there is still much that doctors don’t know about how pregnancy can be affected by the virus, pregnant women do not appear to become more unwell than other healthy adults who contract it. Can I pass the virus to my baby during pregnancy? But what do we know about its impact on pregnancy? What did recent UK research find?

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The Pharma Data

AUGUST 20, 2020

Medical detection dogs Bramble (left) and Lexi during a visit to Kettering General Hospital. Eleven hospitals across the UK are taking part in the study, with scientists hoping at least 3,500 staff will provide “odour samples” Testing has begun to see if medical detection dogs can be trained to smell the disease.

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The Pharma Data

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Emily Adhikari, medical director of perinatal infectious diseases at Parkland Hospital in Dallas. “Most women with asymptomatic or mild infection will be relieved to know that their babies are unlikely to be affected by the virus,” Adhikari said. At the start of the pandemic, the U.S. The findings were published online Nov.

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The Pharma Data

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Among those under 18, the virus is easily spread by close contact with family members who have COVID-19 and at gatherings where people don’t wear masks, but going to school wasn’t linked to positive COVID-19 tests, according to the researchers. “We’ve got to play by the rules. The report was published Dec.

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The Pharma Data

AUGUST 28, 2020

Earlier studies have found the vast majority of children with the virus have mild or no symptoms. But these findings shed light on the unresolved question of how likely children are to spread the virus to others. How severely do they get the virus? Do they pass it on to others? What does the South Korean study say?

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The Pharma Data

DECEMBER 29, 2020

“It was like she was experiencing a movie, like ‘Kill Bill,'” Dr. Hisam Goueli, a psychiatrist at South Oaks Hospital in N.Y., A British study of mental complications in 153 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 found that 10 people had “new-onset psychosis.” told the Times.

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The Pharma Data

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

That money – announced over the summer – was intended to: help hospitals cope with the extra-infection control measures required. But hospitals are still performing only half the number of routine operations they normally would. It comes despite the government promising an extra £3bn this winter.

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The Pharma Data

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The changes help the virus to multiply and eventually destroy the cells. Kidney Disease Leading Risk Factor for COVID-related Hospitalization. Investigators analyzed Geisinger Health System ’s electronic health records and found that chronic kidney disease is the leading risk factor for COVID-19 hospitalization.

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JANUARY 11, 2021

The CoviLamp-PCR test is cost effective, easily deployable and can be run on multiple platforms, providing rapid results in a wide range of healthcare settings including physicians’ offices, urgent care clinics, and hospital emergency departments. To book a test, members of the public can visit www.cardiai.com.

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The Pharma Data

JANUARY 13, 2021

. “Restoration of the missing beneficial bacteria might boost our immunity against SARS-CoV2 virus and hasten recovery from the disease,” she said. “Managing COVID-19 should not only aim at clearing the virus, but also restoring the gut microbiota.”

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The Pharma Data

AUGUST 11, 2020

It has not received general approval to treat the virus in the US, but has in several European countries and Japan. The request for approval comes nearly two months after a study from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases which showed positive results, with the drug effectively blocking the virus from replicating.

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The Pharma Data

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Anyone with any of these should isolate and get tested for the virus. The results, published as a pre-print at medRxiv , revealed 68 of the 992 children had antibodies to the virus, suggesting they had been infected with Sars-Cov-2 at some point. None of the children in the study was seriously ill or needed to be admitted to hospital.

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The Pharma Data

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Hasan Jafri , Chief Medical Officer of Aridis Pharmaceuticals, will be a speaker on a panel entitled “Direct Antivirals and Other Agents Against SARS-CoV2 Virus.” ” Panel: Direct Antivirals and Other Agents Against SARS-CoV2 Virus Date: Wednesday, October 28, 2020 Time: 10:30AM- 11:50AM ET.

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The Pharma Data

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The study calls for more awareness of it in hospitals and care homes. They included 322 patients in hospital with Covid-19, and 535 people using the Covid Symptom Study app to record their symptoms or log health reports on behalf of friends and family. They are also more likely to have falls and end up in hospital when ill.

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JANUARY 11, 2021

The COVID-19 vaccines work by teaching the immune system to protect against the virus, experts said. Neither of the two vaccines approved in the United States — made by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna — contains the live virus. Fahad Khalid, chief of hospital medicine at Penn State Health Hershey Medical Center in Hershey, Pa.,

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Broad Institute

MAY 30, 2023

Then, I started working in shipping and handling, where I was responsible for shipping testing kits to schools, hospitals, and other places. What surprised you about working as a COVID-19 technician at the Broad?

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The Pharma Data

JULY 8, 2021

“These are the people who are getting exposure to the virus day in and day out, and the vaccine protected them against getting the disease. Only 204 (5%) of the participants eventually tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

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The Pharma Data

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

In a statement, the FDA said its approval of the antibody treatment, called bamlanivimab, is solely for people newly infected with COVID-19 “who are at high risk for progressing to severe COVID-19 and/or hospitalization.” More Information. The New York Times Article. © 2020 HealthDay. All rights reserved.

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The Pharma Data

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

But at the start of the pandemic, the UK was only largely able to test hospital patients. It means we are able to look more closely for virus circulating in the community than we were when mass testing first started. Hospital admissions aren’t rising as much as cases. There was limited testing capacity. Source link.

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