A study of COVID-19 patients in the Netherlands did not find the disease to be associated with cytokine storm, as previously suggested. This may have implications for treatment.Share on PinterestRecent research suggests no connection between cytokine storm and COVID-19.Sometimes our immune systems can work against us. In the case of autoimmune diseases, for example, the…
Cannabidiol, or CBD, may help reduce the cytokine storm and excessive lung inflammation that is killing many patients with COVID-19, researchers say. While more work, including clinical trials to determine optimal dosage and timing, is needed before CBD becomes part of the treatment for COVID-19, researchers at the Dental College of Georgia and Medical College…
An observational study finds that patients on ventilators who received a drug that dampens excessive immune responses had a 45% lower risk of dying compared with controls.Share on PinterestNew research finds a lower risk of death for patients with severe COVID-19 who had taken the drug tocilizumab.Despite being twice as likely to develop secondary infections,…
At least a dozen treatments are being evaluated for virus patients whose immune systems go on the attack.Six views of the coronavirus, which in some patients causes the immune system to overcompensate, leading to a “cytokine storm.”Credit...National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIHJune 11, 2020Updated 8:37 p.m. ETMany coronavirus patients seem to get better…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…