A new COVID-19 vaccine candidate is entering Phase 1 clinical human testing today, after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) accepted an application from Inovio Pharmaceuticals under the regulator’s Investigational New Drug program. Inovio plans to inject its first volunteer test subject with the INO-4800 DNA vaccine candidate it has developed, following promising results from preclinical studies performed on animals that did indicate increased immune response.




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Background: The outbreak of 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Wuhan, China, has spread rapidly worldwide. In the early stage, we encountered a small but meaningful number of patients who were unintentionally scheduled for elective surgeries during the incubation period of COVID-19. We intended to describe their clinical characteristics and outcomes. Methods: We retrospectively analyzed the clinical data of 34 patients underwent elective surgeries during the incubatio...

When Wyn Griffiths's wife went to hospital and realised there was an issue with opening doors during the coronavirus outbreak, he came up with a solution.

Mr Griffiths invented a hands-free door pull, to stop people having to touch door handles after using sanitiser.

The gadget is one of a number of innovations which have been developed by doctors, scientists and designers in Wales, to help during the pandemic.

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Learn how to manage the controls of the T-Bird VS02 Ventilator!

Versamed Ivent training conducted by Andreas Tzanetakis- global product manager of GE.

From hands-free door openers that can be 3D-printed, to basic ventilators, the COVID-19 pandemic has ushered in a new era of urgent innovation.
COVID-19 may be having a devastating impact on our industries, social lives and personal grooming standards, but it is also prompting an outpouring of creativity in other arenas. From Spiderman-esque wrist-mounted disinfectant sprays, to a wristband that buzzes whenever you’re about to touch your face, a wealth of new prototypes are demonstrating w...

Actual number of infections may already have reached several tens of millions.



Summary:
The number of confirmed cases of coronavirus disease officially issued by countries dramatically understates the true number of infections, a report suggests. Researchers used estimates of COVID-19 mortality and time until death from a recent study to test the quality of records. This shows that countries have only discovered on average about 6% of infections. The number of infections...

Panel discussion of New perspectives in colorectal management during COVID19 pandemic.

Dr. Spinelli gives a lecture about the current situation of colorectal surgery in Italy.

Dr. Tabernero gives a lecture about changes in oncological treatment in colorectal cancer. 

Dr. Yao and Dr. Wang gives a lecture about the presentation of the consensus about COVID19 management in surgery.

Dr. Lacy gives a lecture about the current situation of colorectal cancer around the world with COVID19.