Why Some People Survived COVID-19 and Others Did Not
Why immune balance - not age - predicted COVID-19 survival, and what the CD4:CD8 ratio reveals.
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Beyond the Thermometer: Fever’s Deeper Purpose Revealed
Have you ever wondered why we experience fever during illness? For generations, the medical community has upheld the belief that fever is a critical component of our defense system against infections. Experts have been considering fever as an instrument orchestrated by the immune system to create an inhospitable environment for invading pathogens. This view has…
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Cracking the Common Cold Code: Unveiling Secrets to Self-Treat the Common Cold
Lot of kids get common cold during winter. They get sick again and again. We adults too suffer from common cold. With the 2021 disaster of COVID-19, everyone gets afraid the moment we get sick with common cold. Getting doctor appointments can be cumbersome, and visiting emergency room might not be a pleasant experience for…
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Anticoagulants, Viruses, and the COVID-19 Puzzle: Data Misinterpretation in Research
I recently attended an international conference where I was intrigued to find a topic that suggested that anticoagulants (drugs that prevent clotting) have anti-viral properties. It was a direct strike against my medical understanding of how our blood coagulation system works.All my life I believed that blood clotting mechanisms are critical components of our defense…
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Antibodies Myth-Busters: Common Questions, Straight Answers
I am fortunate and glad that my previous article explaining basics regarding antibodies was well appreciated. The post was found to be detailed, yet simple enough such that any reader should be able to dispel all myths about antibodies. However, I am aware that a lot of readers (sometimes I myself am guilty of the…
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COVID-19 Antibodies: Don’t Be Fooled By Myths and Fantasies
COVID-19 “ANTIBODIES” has been a popular buzzword since 2020. It all started with media bombarding every channel about importance of antibodies in fighting COVID-19. Since then, everyone wants to grab whatever information they can so that they can eventually have antibodies against COVID-19! Unfortunately, there are more myths than facts about antibodies. Actually, there is…
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Long COVID- It’s Scary, But Can Be Tamed
Long Covid- An Introduction Current statistics emerging from COVID-19 pandemic tends to show that it’s just like any other viral infection. >90% of infected people remain asymptomatic or suffer from extremely mild symptoms. <1% of the infected actually die. And this rate is not higher than what we see with common viral infections such as…
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COVID-19 at Home: What Evidence-Based Care Looks Like
It has been a medical challenge to treat COVID comprehensively in all patients! In Feb 2021, the second wave of COVID-19 struck India. Everyday around 0.1 to 0.3 million cases were getting diagnosed in India with COVID-19 and about 3000 were dying. But this Wave 2 of COVID-19 pandemic has been really a disaster for…
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Is COVID-19 An Intelligent Virus That Can Spy?
Intelligence Gathering by Micro-organisms Is COVID-19 an intelligent virus? In 1990s scientists at Princeton University discovered that some bacteria could communicate with each other. Using such communication, one bacterium can inform its community about the challenges it is facing in the host. This information is then used by the whole group to devise strategies for…
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Mucormycosis post COVID- Unravelling the Mystery and Surviving
What will you learn in this article? Mucormycosis and COVID both are today angels of death partnering with each other. Mucormycosis has been an unexpected disaster and is now an epidemic in India. Also know as BLACK FUNGUS, everything seems to be a mystery about this fungal menace. COVID-19 pandemic itself has been a massacre….
