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Texas Doctor Claims He Discovered Effective and Inexpensive Solution for COVID-19

AHA Publisher — Fri, 17 Jul 2020 07:00:10 +0000

Sara Middleton via NaturalHealth365 – Could a common drug called Budesonide really offer an effective, safe, and affordable COVID solution for ill patients? The answer may shock you, especially if you’ve been listening to the dire reports put out by the mainstream media. The truth is: a Texan emergency room doctor – with nearly 30 years of experience – has some very good news for those people concerned about COVID-19. And, thankfully, he’s currently working hard to get his message out about this potentially lifesaving steroid, no matter how reluctant some government officials may be to admit its promising impact. Medical Doctor Is Putting the Proverbial Fire of COVID-19 Out with Budesonide Budesonide is typically inhaled via a nebulizer, a non-invasive medical device that transforms medication into vapor so it can be breathed in by the patient through a handheld nozzle or simple face mask. The drug is commonly used to treat asthma. Because it helps alleviate inflammation in the body, doctors also use budesonide for other reasons, including managing symptoms of Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. But, according to Texas ER physician Dr. Richard Bartlett, budesonide is helping his COVID patients recover extremely quickly and without the side effects commonly seen with other heavier-duty steroid medications. In a July 2 interview on the news show American Can We Talk, Dr. Bartlett explains: “My silver bullet is inhaled [generic] budesonide. It’s super cheap … with insurance, many of my patients are not even having to pay for it.” He continues: “[Budeosnide] is a respiratory anti-inflammatory for COVID – which is a respiratory inflammatory disease – and it works.” Dr. Bartlett has had a 100% success rate with this promising COVID treatment, and notes that many of his patients have reported feeling significantly better after just one five minute nebulizer treatment. In his clinical practice setting, he’s been treating very ill patients since March. See for yourself by watching this wonderful interview with Dr. Bartlett – below: In another interview shared by MSN, Dr. Bartlett says his COVID treatment plan for ill patients – many of whom are high risk due to underlying medical conditions and advanced age – is based on the complementary action of three main drugs: generic budesonide to fight inflammation and the so-called “cytokine storm” (a severe inflammatory process in the body often seen in COVID-19 that can lead to multi-organ failure and death), generic antibiotics to fight subsequent bacterial infections, and zinc, to interfere with replication of the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2. “It’s common sense,” he adds bluntly. Dr. Bartlett has said that doctors in other countries including France and Spain are starting to explore the use of inhaled steroid medications for their COVID-19 patients. He also adds that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will reportedly be looking into budesonide for use in the global pandemic, as well. We look forward to hearing more about budesonide and are curious to see whether it’ll start picking up more support in the media and scientific community. Sources for this article include: NewsWest9.com, Drugs.com, TexasHillCountry.com, MSN.com This article has been modified. To read the original article click here. For more articles from NaturalHealth365 click here.

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Development of New System for Combatting COVID-19 That Can Be Used for Other Viruses

AHA Publisher — Wed, 08 Apr 2020 07:00:01 +0000

University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston via EurekAlert – A multidisciplinary team at The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston working to combat the COVID-19 virus has a system that will unlock researchers’ ability to more quickly develop and evaluate developing vaccines, diagnose infected patients and explore whether or how the virus has evolved. GALVESTON, Texas – The scientists, led by Pei-Yong Shi, developed the system by engineering a reverse genetic system for SARS coronavirus 2, or SARS-CoV-2, that is causing the current COVID-19 pandemic. The study is currently available in Cell Host & Microbe. A Reverse genetic system is one of the most useful tools for studying and combatting viruses. The system allows researchers to make the virus in the lab and manipulate it in a petri dish. Using this system, the UTMB team has engineered a version of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that is labeled with neon green. When the labeled virus infects a cell, the infected cell turns green. “The labeled virus could be used to rapidly determine whether a patient has already been infected by the new coronavirus or evaluate how well developing vaccines are inducing antibodies that block infection of the virus. The level of antibodies induced by a vaccine is the most important parameter in predicting how well a vaccine works,” said Shi, I.H. Kempner professor of Human Genetics at UTMB. “The neon green labeled virus system allows us to test patients’ samples in 12 hours in a high-throughput manner that tests many samples at once. In contrast, the conventional method can only test a few specimens at a time with a long turnaround time of a week.” “This technology can significantly reduce how long it takes to evaluate developing vaccines and ultimately bring them to the market,” said Xuping Xie, the UTMB Research Scientist who designed and developed the genetic system. “UTMB will be very happy to make this technology widely available to both academia and industry researchers working to quickly develop countermeasures.” “The genetic system allows us to study the evolution of the new coronavirus. This will help us to understand how the virus jumped from its original host bat species to humans. It remains to be determined if an intermediate host is required for the host switch from the original bats to humans for the new coronavirus,” said Vineet Menachery, Assistant Professor at UTMB, who co-senior-authored the study. “The system has provided a critical tool for the research community.” “This is another example of team science at UTMB,” said Dr. Ben Raimer, President ad Interim of UTMB. “The collective effort from teams with complementary expertise worked together to deliver this exciting study. We will expand the team science to areas of clinical care and patient diagnosis by deploying the technology for serological testing.” Shi said, “This will not be the last emerging virus that plagues humanity. In the past two decades, we’ve seen other coronaviruses like SARS and MERS, as well as other viruses like Zika, Ebola and others. It’s critically important to have a system that can be used for any new future or re-emerging viruses so that we can very quickly respond to the pathogens and protect peoples’ health.” To read the original article click here.

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