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Why are monoclonal antibodies dividing docs treating Covid-19? Erika Edwards
Dr. Michael Saag cannot get enough monoclonal antibodies to treat Covid-19.
They re not for him, personally; he still has natural antibodies to the coronavirus since recovering from the illness this past March.
But Saag, an infectious disease physician at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, said he would take the monoclonal antibodies made in a lab to mirror the body s natural immune response to the virus in a heartbeat if he were to be infected a second time.
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Unlike the antiviral drug remdesivir and the steroid dexamethasone both of which are given to patients hospitalized with Covid-19 monoclonal antibodies are the only therapy authorized by the Food and Drug Administration so far that is meant to prevent patients from being hospitalized in the first place. The FDA has granted emergency
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A retrospective study that looked at pregnancies between 2009 and 2016 published December 18, 2020, in
Human Reproduction found that if a father-to-be has three or more medical conditions that are part of metabolic syndrome: obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, or high cholesterol, the risk for losing a pregnancy was 27 percent compared with 10 percent for men who had no medical conditions.
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There’s a Link Between Paternal Health and Pregnancy Loss
“Preconception counseling, things like prenatal vitamins and living a healthy lifestyle, has only focused on women. This is the first study to show an association between the preconception paternal health and pregnancy loss,” says Michael Eisenberg, MD, associate professor of urology at Stanford University School of Medicine in Palo Alto, California, and lead author of the study.
SISCO’) study.
1 The results from 30 patients treated with siltuximab in the ‘SISCO’ study compared with 30 matched controls, showed that treatment with siltuximab led to a 54% reduction
in risk of 30-day all-cause mortality.
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This pivotal study will evaluate the efficacy and safety of standard of care (SOC) with or without intravenous siltuximab in selected hospitalised patients with COVID-19 previously treated with corticosteroids or another respiratory virus infection. Unlike previous studies of agents targeting the interleukin-6 (IL-6) signalling pathway, the ‘SILVAR’ study has been rationally designed to only enrol those hospitalised patients suffering from serious viral acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) in a hyperinflammatory state that will most likely benefit from the addition of an anti-IL-6 immunomodulator such as siltuximab.