SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
$15 drug gets COVID patients off oxygen support in under week – study:
Fourteen out of 15 severe COVID-19 patients who were treated in an investigator-initiated interventional open-label clinical study of the drug TriCor (fenofibrate)[*] didn't require oxygen support within a week of treatment and were released from the hospital, according to the results of a new Hebrew University of Jerusalem study.
Fenofibrate is an FDA-approved oral medication. The results were published on Researchsquare.com and are currently under peer review.
Specifically, the team that was led by HU's Prof. Yaakov Nahmias carried out the study at Israel's Barzilai Medical Center in coordination with the hospital's head of the Infectious Disease Unit, Prof. Shlomo Maayan, and with support from Abbott Laboratories.
[...] The 15 treated patients all had pneumonia and required oxygen support. They were also older with multiple comorbidities, ranging from diabetes and obesity to high blood pressure.
"The results were dramatic," Nahmias told The Jerusalem Post. "Progressive inflammation markers, which are the hallmark of deteriorative COVID-19, dropped within 48 hours of treatment. Moreover, 14 of the 15 severe patients didn't require oxygen support within a week of treatment." The 15th patient was off oxygen within 10 days.
When looking at the data on other similar severe patients, less than 30% of them on average are removed from oxygen support within a week. In other words, fenofibrate could dramatically shorten the treatment time for severe COVID patients.
"We know these kinds of patients deteriorate really fast, develop a cytokine storm in five to seven days and that it can take weeks to treat them and for them to get better," Nahmias said. "We gave these patients fenofibrate and the study shows inflammation dropped incredibly fast. They did not seem to develop a cytokine storm[**] at all."
Cytokine storms are aggressive inflammatory responses to illness.
[*] Fenofibrate entries on MedlinePlus and Wikipedia.
[**] Cytokine storm on Wikipedia.
Journal Reference:
Yaakov Nahmias, Avner Ehrlich, Konstantinos Ioannidis, et al. Metabolic Regulation of SARS-CoV-2 Infection, (DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-770724/v1)
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 29 2021, @01:54AM (4 children)
Who do you think JK Rowling modelled Lord Voldemort and the Death Eaters on? Yes, the British conservative party. Maggie, "Let them eat Spotted Dick" Thatcher, and company. And now, Eric Clapton. Right-wingers do not just love death, they are death, destroyers of worlds! Look upon their Stupid, and despair!
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 29 2021, @02:37AM (2 children)
I see your masters have now put Eric Clapton on the hate list. Was his participation in "Stand and Deliver" last year not sufficient to trigger the unpersoning?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 29 2021, @03:22PM
Eric Clapton put himself on the "I'm a racist beyond hope of reasoning with" list a very long time ago. Rock Against Racism was formed in 1976, mostly in response to his very visible, very public, very amplified racist rantings to large audiences.
(Score: 2) by epitaxial on Monday August 30 2021, @12:39PM
"Not just leave the hall, leave our country... I don't want you here, in the room or in my country," he said in part.
"The Black w—s and c—s and Arabs and f—ing Jamaicans don't belong here, we don't want them here," Clapton added on stage then, using blatant racist slurs. "This is England, this is a white country, we don't want any Black w—s and c—s living here. We need to make clear to them they are not welcome."
The rant went on as he called England "a white country" made "for white people."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 29 2021, @05:01PM
Eric Claptout should be grateful for any social media mentions whatsoever. For you non-boomers out there, he was an old guitarist that your grandparents may have listened to on the gramophone.