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Found Ineffective, Plasma Therapy No Longer Recommended For Covid-19 Treatment
3 years, 7 months ago

Found Ineffective, Plasma Therapy No Longer Recommended For Covid-19 Treatment

News 18  

Days after various studies and expert panels suggested that plasma therapy on Covid-19 patients was found ineffective in reducing the progression to severe disease or death, the treatment protocol has been dropped from the clinical management guidelines, sources said. In the letter, which was also marked to ICMR chief Balram Bhargava and AIIMS Director Randeep Guleria, public health professionals alleged …

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COVID-19: Plasma therapy not found effective, likely to be dropped from clinical management guidelines
3 years, 7 months ago

COVID-19: Plasma therapy not found effective, likely to be dropped from clinical management guidelines

Firstpost  

The present guidelines allows ‘off label’ use of plasma therapy at the stage of early moderate disease, that is, within seven days of the onset of symptoms New Delhi: Plasma therapy on COVID-19 patients has not been found effective in reducing the progression to severe disease or death and is likely to be dropped from the clinical management guidelines, sources …

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Plasma therapy not effective, likely to be dropped from clinical management guidelines on Covid-19
3 years, 7 months ago

Plasma therapy not effective, likely to be dropped from clinical management guidelines on Covid-19

India Today  

Plasma therapy on Covid-19 patients has not been found effective in reducing the progression to severe disease or death and is likely to be dropped from the clinical management guidelines, sources said. In the letter, which was also marked to ICMR chief Balram Bhargava and AIIMS Director Randeep Guleria, public health professionals alleged that the current guidelines on plasma therapy …

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Stop irrational use of plasma, may develop more virulent strains of Covid, warn experts
3 years, 7 months ago

Stop irrational use of plasma, may develop more virulent strains of Covid, warn experts

India Today  

A group of doctors, public health officials and experts have written to the Centre’s principal scientific advisor along with the AIIMS chief and ICMR chief, raising concerns over the “irrational and non-scientific use of convalescent plasma for Covid-19”. The letter addressed to Principal Scientific Advisor Dr Vijay Raghavan says, “We are writing to you as concerned clinicians, public health professionals …

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Study shows Covid-19 evolved during treatment, convalescent plasma therapy patients had UK mutant
3 years, 10 months ago

Study shows Covid-19 evolved during treatment, convalescent plasma therapy patients had UK mutant

India Today  

A recent study has revealed that the dominant variant of the novel coronavirus or Covid-19 that emerged in patients after the convalescent plasma therapy possessed a mutation that is also present in the one first discovered in the UK. ".data reveal strong selection on SARS-CoV-2 during convalescent plasma therapy associated with the emergence of viral variants with evidence of reduced …

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Coronavirus | ICMR warns against indiscriminate use of convalescent plasma therapy
4 years, 1 month ago

Coronavirus | ICMR warns against indiscriminate use of convalescent plasma therapy

The Hindu  

The Indian Council of Medical Research has warned against indiscriminate use of convalescent plasma therapy for treating COVID-19. On Wednesday, it released report of an open-label phase II multicentre randomised controlled trial conducted across 39 public and private hospitals on the use of CPT in management of cases with moderate infection. The report concluded that the therapy “did not lead …

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Convalescent plasma not proven for coronavirus, panel says
4 years, 3 months ago

Convalescent plasma not proven for coronavirus, panel says

CNN  

CNN — A National Institutes of Health panel said there’s no evidence backing the use of convalescent plasma to treat coronavirus patients and that doctors should not treat it as a standard of care until more study has been done. “Convalescent plasma should not be considered standard of care for the treatment of patients with COVID-19,” the committee, which evaluates …

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What Delhi Did Yesterday, America Does Today: Kejriwal on US Adopting Plasma Therapy for Covid Treatment
4 years, 4 months ago

What Delhi Did Yesterday, America Does Today: Kejriwal on US Adopting Plasma Therapy for Covid Treatment

News 18  

"What Delhi did yesterday, America does today", said Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday as his government claimed that the US adopted the model of convalescent plasma therapy for treatment of critically-ill coronavirus patients, taking a cue from the 'Delhi Model' of battling COVID-19. The Delhi government was "the first to seek permission for trials" of plasma therapy in April …

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HHS Chief Alex Azar Defends Authorization Of Plasma To Treat COVID-19
4 years, 4 months ago

HHS Chief Alex Azar Defends Authorization Of Plasma To Treat COVID-19

NPR  

HHS Chief Alex Azar Defends Authorization Of Plasma To Treat COVID-19 Enlarge this image toggle caption Pete Marovich/Getty Images Pete Marovich/Getty Images The Food and Drug Administration has given the green light to expand the use of blood plasma in treating hospitalized COVID-19 patients. The emergency use authorization announced Sunday involves convalescent plasma — taking antibodies from the blood of …

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August 23 coronavirus news
4 years, 4 months ago

August 23 coronavirus news

CNN  

Nurse Lina Acevedo checks the plasma donated by a man who recovered from Covid-19 on August 14 in Bogota, Colombia. The problem is, we don’t really have enough data to really understand how effective convalescent plasma is,” Dr. Jonathan Reiner, a professor of medicine at George Washington University and a CNN medical analyst, told CNN Sunday. But as recently as …

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August 23 coronavirus news
4 years, 4 months ago

August 23 coronavirus news

CNN  

Nurse Lina Acevedo checks the plasma donated by a man who recovered from Covid-19 on August 14 in Bogota, Colombia. The problem is, we don’t really have enough data to really understand how effective convalescent plasma is,” Dr. Jonathan Reiner, a professor of medicine at George Washington University and a CNN medical analyst, told CNN Sunday. But as recently as …

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FDA Authorizes Convalescent Plasma As Emergency Treatment For COVID-19
4 years, 4 months ago

FDA Authorizes Convalescent Plasma As Emergency Treatment For COVID-19

NPR  

FDA Authorizes Convalescent Plasma As Emergency Treatment For COVID-19 Enlarge this image toggle caption Pete Marovich/Getty Images Pete Marovich/Getty Images President Trump announced on Sunday that the Food and Drug Administration has issued emergency use authorization to treat hospitalized COVID-19 patients with convalescent plasma from people who have recovered from the virus. Joined by Health and Human Services Secretary Alex …

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Coronavirus: Trump claims ‘political reasons’ held up plasma authorization
4 years, 4 months ago

Coronavirus: Trump claims ‘political reasons’ held up plasma authorization

CNN  

CNN — President Donald Trump said Sunday that he believed “political reasons” had slowed down the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of emergency use authorization for convalescent plasma but that he “broke the logjam” over the last week. He said he believed there were officials at the FDA and in the Department of Health and Human Services “that can see …

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Trump Wanted FDA To Fast-Track Blood Plasma Therapy. What Is It?
4 years, 4 months ago

Trump Wanted FDA To Fast-Track Blood Plasma Therapy. What Is It?

NPR  

Trump Wanted FDA To Fast-Track Blood Plasma Therapy. A recent non-peer-reviewed study posted online reported on more than 30,000 patients receiving convalescent plasma; it showed that the more antibodies there were in a particular batch of convalescent plasma, the more effective the plasma was in preventing death. Nonetheless, according to press reports, the FDA was close to granting emergency use …

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Delhi plasma bank: Over 700 COVID-19 patients get plasma
4 years, 4 months ago

Delhi plasma bank: Over 700 COVID-19 patients get plasma

Live Mint  

The Delhi Government's Plasma Bank has administered plasma to a total of 710 COVID-19 patients while 921 COVID recovered patients have donated plasma so far, the Delhi Chief Minister's Office said in a statement on Tuesday. Along with the various steps taken by the Delhi government to combat the virus, plasma therapy has streamlined the recovery of critically ill COVID-19 …

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Could we cure coronavirus?
4 years, 4 months ago

Could we cure coronavirus?

ABC  

In the quest to find life-saving COVID-19 treatments, scientists are trying everything from using the blood of coronavirus survivors to recycling old HIV drugs. All have shown promise, but this virus is also proving hard to outsmart: The century-old 'bag of blood' approach relying on altruistic people like Damian The century-old 'bag of blood' approach relying on altruistic people like …

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How scientists revived an old-school treatment for a 21st century pandemic
4 years, 4 months ago

How scientists revived an old-school treatment for a 21st century pandemic

LA Times  

Dr. Arturo Casadevall, a microbiologist and physician at Johns Hopkins University, has spearheaded a nationwide initiative to test the healing powers of “convalescent plasma” from COVID-19 survivors. Also a reader of medical history, he burrowed into articles about the use of convalescent plasma during the 1918 flu pandemic, where it appears to have reduced patients’ risk of dying by 25% …

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What are antibody therapies and who is developing them for Covid-19?
4 years, 6 months ago

What are antibody therapies and who is developing them for Covid-19?

Live Mint  

New York: While some potential vaccines have emerged in the global race to find a way to stop the spread of COVID-19, many scientists and researchers believe antibody based therapies hold great promise for treating people already infected with the disease. And while some drugmakers have suggested antibody treatments can be used prophylactically - Regeneron's Chief Scientific Officer George Yancopoulos …

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They prepared for years for a pandemic. Now the pressure is on to create a therapy that could help control it
4 years, 6 months ago

They prepared for years for a pandemic. Now the pressure is on to create a therapy that could help control it

CNN  

CNN — Kristin Pascal jokes with friends at Zoom game night that she’s spent the Covid-19 pandemic moving clear liquids around the office. “So we thought, let’s be prepared.” To prepare, Pascal and her team ran speed challenges to see exactly how fast they could create a treatment for an emerging threat. “And, like, growing amounts of pressure.” They work …

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