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Excerpt from the Article To encourage collaboration among its chapters, the Northeast Regional Board of the Latino Medical Student Association (LMSA) recently tasked chapters in various cities to work together to develop and implement a community service project for their local Latino community. “Our group included Jefferson, Penn, Drexel, PCOM and Temple,” says second-year Temple…
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Excerpt from the Article: Two more life-saving drugs have been found that can cut deaths by a quarter in patients who are sickest with Covid. The anti-inflammatory medications, given via a drip, save an extra life for every 12 treated, say researchers who have carried out a trial in NHS intensive care units. Supplies are…
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Excerpt from the Article: AIM ImmunoTech Inc (NYSEAMERICAN:AIM) (FRA:HXB2) has announced Wednesday that the active AMP-511 Expanded Access Program (EAP) has dosed its first coronavirus (COVID-19) “Long Hauler” patient with the drug Ampligen (rintatolimod). The company said the initial dosing marks a significant milestone in its efforts to develop an effective therapeutic for people suffering…
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Excerpt from the Article: In 1995, Katalin Karikó was at her lowest ebb. A biochemist at the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), Karikó had dedicated much of the previous two decades to finding a way to turn one of the most fundamental building blocks of life, mRNA, into a whole new category of therapeutics. More often…
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Excerpt from the Article: COVID-19 is known to cause neurological complications in patients who test positive for the virus, but new research from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has revealed that SARS-CoV-2 does not always find its way into the brains of infected patients. Based on findings from high-powered MRI scans, researches from the…
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Excerpt from the Press Release: Researchers at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have formed a new consortium that will study the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on preterm birth and prenatal care, funded by $300,000 in grants from the Independence Blue Cross Foundation, Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield Delaware’s donor-advised fund, and BluePrints for the…
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Excerpt from the Article: A novel computational drug screening strategy combined with lab experiments suggest that pralatrexate, a chemotherapy medication originally developed to treat lymphoma, could potentially be repurposed to treat Covid-19. Haiping Zhang of the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology in Shenzhen, China, and colleagues present these findings in the open-access journal PLOS Computational…
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Excerpt from the Article: Boosting immune system T cells to effectively attack solid tumors, such as breast cancers, can be done by adding a small molecule to a treatment procedure called chimeric antigen receptor-T (CAR-T) cell therapy, according to a study by researchers at the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. The boost helps recruit more…
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Excerpt from the Press Release: UCLH has opened a new vaccine research centre with two clinical trials testing a long-acting antibody combination treatment to protect against Covid-19. Researchers in the STORM CHASER study led by UCLH virologist Dr Catherine Houlihan have recruited the first participant in the world to the study. They believe the antibody…
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Excerpt from the Press Release: Researchers from SWOG Cancer Research Network, a cancer clinical trials group funded by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health, have shown that a triple drug combination – of irinotecan, cetuximab, and vemurafenib – is a more powerful tumor fighter and keeps people with metastatic…
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