Discussion 'Covid-19'
Covid-19 Vaccines – What Multiple Myeloma Patients Should Know?
Multiple myeloma patients are often immunosuppressed for months following treatments such as maintenance therapies, immunosuppressive drugs, hematopoietic cell transplant (HCT) and CAR-T therapies. They are at higher risk for serious complications from the SARS-CoV-2 virus leading to hospitalizations and ICU…
Stem Cell Therapy for COVID-19 related ARDS (Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome)
Acute respiratory distress syndrome or ARDS is a very serious complication for many patients suffering from COVID-19, and is believed to account for about 80% of the deaths in ventilated patients. There is no proven or FDA-approved treatment for it,…
Drug Repurposing for COVID-19 with CORONA Registry (COvid 19 Registry of Off-label & New Agents)
The global crisis due to COVID19 and the urgent need to identify effective therapeutics prompted Dr. David Fajgenbaum from the University of Pennsylvania and his research team to create a database that tracks every off-label and experimental drug being used…
Covid 19 Convalescent Plasma Study
Convalescent plasma therapy involves the transfusion of plasma collected from a donor who has recovered from Covid-19 to a patient with an active infection. Two recent studies have shown that convalescent plasma therapy can be used in treating critically-ill covid-19…
Managing your Mental Health During COVID-19
Is the new practice of social distancing or reducing close physical proximity with others contributing to another deadly epidemic, that of social isolation and loneliness? As the world grapples with COVID-19, the population worldwide is escalating into negative psychological reactions…