The pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), or mostly known as COVID-19, has infected millions of people and led to a public health crisis. Various aspects including the economy daily routine life have also been severely affected. At time being, treatment using previously FDA-approved antiviral such hydroxychloroquine remdesivir, well convalescent plasma...

Maria Graça R. Campos, Christian Frigerio, Joana Lopes and Stefan Bogdanov 1 Centre of Pharmaceutical Studies, Laboratory of Pharmacognosy and Phytotherapy, Faculty of Pharmacy – R. do Norte University of Coimbra, 3000-295 Coimbra, Portugal 2 REQUIMTE, Departamento de Química-Física, Faculdade de Farmacía, Universidade do Porto, Rua Aníbal Cunha 164, Porto 4050-047, Portugal 3 Bee Products Scie...

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Recently, several investigations have shown that the high antioxidant potential of honey can also be exploited to develop new approaches to the efficient production and processing of nanomaterials [2-4], which offer interesting advantages over the conventional routes: they are quite simple, economically competitive and reduce risks to human health and the environment [5]. In addition, these gre...

Honey: This topic has been extensively reviewed by Bogdanov, online article with original references on www.bee-hexagon.net/files/file/fileE/Honey/7HoneyNutrientFunctional.pdf The antibacterial effect of honey, mostly against gram-positive bacteria, both bacteriostatic and bactericidal effects have been reported, against many strains, many of which are pathogenic. Honey glucose oxidase produces...