Musculoskeletal health during lockdown
Researchers at the University of Aberdeen will investigate musculoskeletal health during the Covid_19 lockdown. A £52,000 grant has been awarded…
Infection/Disease
Cannabis may help severely ill Covid-19 patients
Haifa, Israel, May 14, 2020 ...Rambam Health Care Campus is leading cannabis research that could be helpful in the treatment…
Covid-19: new respiratory support system
A respiratory support system has been developed in Wales to fight Covid-19. Engineers at University of Wales Trinity Saint David…
Chronic inflammatory liver disease treatment
Chronic inflammatory liver disease: lipid-metabolism enzyme a potential factor in new treatment approach: Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) is a rare,…
UK biobank boosts COVID-19 sample availability
The UK’s leading supplier of human tissue samples is joining forces with a Cambridge Biobank to provide COVID-19 samples for…
Covid-19: TAPb accelerates clinical trials by providing patient samples
Tissue Access for Patient Benefit (TAPb) is a UCL and Royal Free NHS Foundation Trust initiative, based in the UCL…
Genetic defect could protect pangolins against coronavirus disease
While pangolins can be carriers of coronavirus, they appear able to tolerate it through some other unknown mechanism. The exotic…
Covid-19: Targeting brain may help lung injury
New research published today in The Journal of Physiology suggests that lung injury is not limited to the lungs. Targeting…
Covid-19: Stroke clot buster drugs
Stroke clot buster drugs could be harnessed to tackle COVID-19. A drug commonly used to treat patients suffering from strokes…
Why are antibody tests so unreliable?
A reliable antibody test, showing that someone has already been exposed to Covid 19 and has developed antibodies which suggest…