Adverse effects of vaccinations and potential therapies against COVID-19

Therapeutic potential of Paclitaxel against COVID-19

The coronavirus disease-2019(COVID-19) was reported in Wuhan, China, in late December 2019 and soon became the most serious global health challenge due to high rate of human-to-human transmission. The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2(SARS-CoV-2), is a single-stranded RNA virus and belongs to the large Coronaviridae family. Paclitaxel, an antineoplastic drug extracted from the Tax...

Adverse cutaneous reactions of COVID-19 treatment

COVID-19 pandemic has led to many mortalities since the beginning of 2020. As there was no previous experience, no specific therapy was used, except for gloves, masks, special clothes, and antiseptics. So various pharmacologic and non-pharmacological treatments were tried. World Health Organization published therapeutic protocols in the first weeks of the pandemic that has been changed over mo...

Increased susceptibility to adverse effects from vaccinations

Potential Benefits of Vaccinations

Introduction We live in an age of incredible technology, discovery and medicine. Smartphones, spaceships, and bionic eyes are no longer reserved for science fiction. Vaccinations are among the groundbreaking medical discoveries which “allow us to engage our adaptive immune systems to produce highly specific antibodies and immunological memory against a potential future infection” (Federman, 201...

An Update of Pharmacological & Non-Pharmacological Therapies for COVID-19 Pandemic Trivia

The whole planet is facing one of the scariest pandemic situations in this era. On 11th February, 2020 the World Health Organization announced the name of an unknown disease as COVID-19, which is caused by the ssRNA virus SARS-CoV-2 (formally recognized as a sister of SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV). The epicenter of this disease is Wuhan, Hubei Province, China. COVID-19 can affect all age groups but pa...