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Antibody Drug May Protect Nursing Home Residents, Staff From COVID-19

The Pharma Data

Antibody Drug May Protect Nursing Home Residents, Staff From COVID-19. Food and Drug Administration for use in early-stage COVID-19 patients with symptoms prevented COVID-19 infections in nursing residents and staff who were exposed to the virus, a new study shows. FRIDAY, Jan.

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Gut microbiome changes align with increased risk of type 2 diabetes

Broad Institute

This could mean that the virus infects the bacteria and changes its function in a way that increases or decreases type 2 diabetes risk, but more work is needed to understand this connection." Results of the study — which represents a collaboration across Brigham and Women’s Hospital, the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and Harvard T.H.

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Keeping tabs on Covid-19: Iceni Diagnostics creates new virus detection device and the RDIF announce its vaccine is more than 95 per cent efficient

The Pharma Data

UK firm develops solution for identifying whether patients are actually infectious from a virus or not. Iceni Diagnostics has revealed it is developing a new technology that can disclose if patients are actually infectious with a live virus or not. Read on to for the full insight.

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Eli Lilly’s Antibody Med Shows Potential in Preventing COVID-19 in the Elderly | 2021-01-21

The Pharma Data

Eli Lilly reported yesterday that its monoclonal antibody bamlanivimab (LY-CoV555) significantly lessened the risk of contracting COVID-19 among nursing home residents and staff, according to findings from a phase 3 trial. James Miessler. Source link.

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Coronavirus: NHS faces pandemic 'triple whammy' this winter

The Pharma Data

. “Despite dire predictions that it would not be able to cope, the NHS has not only managed a huge wave of Covid patients but also continued to treat millions not infected with the virus.

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The Definition of “Fully Vaccinated” Needs to Change

Eye on FDA

We are long gone from the days of being threatened by a rampant Alpha virus to having several successive variants. Today CDC provided important insight into the ability of the new variant to make headway with a highly vulnerable population when it released data on infections in the nursing home environment.

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NHS staff sign up to Covid-19 sniffer dog trial

The Pharma Data

Lead research nurse Joanne Walsh says they are recruiting staff volunteers who are about to have a Covid-19 swab test. Kettering General Hospital’s lead nurse for research, Joanne Walsh, said: “Our contribution involves recruiting staff volunteers from colleagues who are about to have a Covid-19 swab test. Image copyright.

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