Category: News & Discoveries

First Leukemia Patients Treated With Experimental Therapy Remained in Remission 10 Years Later: Study

Researchers of a new study say that two patients with leukemia continued to be in remission a decade after they were first infused with the experimental CAR T-cell therapy that turned their immune cells into cancer-killing cells. In 2010, Doug Olson and Bill Ludwig, participated in an experimental phase 1 clinical trial of the immunotherapy,…


Brain Fog in Your Patients Is a Red Flag Symptom

Do you or your patients ever suffer from brain fog, that feeling like you’re disconnected from the world, moving in a daze, and slow to process information? If so, take this symptom very seriously as it’s one of the earliest signs of neurodegeneration, or accelerated brain aging. This means you are at increased risk of…


Natural Immunity to COVID-19 Detected at 20 Months After Infection: Study

Protection against the virus that causes COVID-19 among the recovered was detected by researchers at 20 months post-infection, adding to the body of evidence that such protection, known as natural immunity, is long-lasting. Researchers found antibodies against the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein receptor-binding domain (RBD) in 99 percent of study participants who tested positive for COVID-19,…


Findings Announced From UK Study That Purposefully Infected Participants With COVID-19

COVID-19 symptoms develop more quickly than most experts thought, according to the first findings from a study that purposefully infected volunteers with the disease. Participants experienced symptoms on average two days after contact with the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, which causes COVID-19, the study found. Detection of the virus in infected individuals came initially by using…


Early Outpatient Treatment for Covid-19: The Evidence

Commentary The evidence accumulated very early on in the pandemic that the use of sequenced multi-drug therapeutics (SMDT) under physician guidance was beneficial and that some medications were safe and effective. We refer to repurposed therapeutics that have been regulatory approved and have been used in some instances for decades for other illnesses. We have…


The Omicron Variant Is Deepening Severe Staffing Shortages in Medical Laboratories Across the US

Medical laboratory professionals form the backbone of health care and the public health system. They conduct some 13 billion laboratory medicine tests annually in the U.S. As of January 2022, these individuals had also performed more than 860 million COVID-19 tests and counting during the pandemic. Why should anyone care? Laboratory testing is the single…