Mount Sinai Launches Global FREEDOM COVID Trial to Study Anticoagulant Therapies
Building on treatment protocols developed at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Mount Sinai Heart has launched the global FREEDOM COVID Anticoagulation Trial to determine the most effective dosage and regimen of anticoagulant therapy in improving the...
Ketamine Demonstrates Rapid Improvement in Patients With Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
Ketamine, an anesthetic found to help individuals with treatment resistant depression at lower doses, has now shown additional promise in easing the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), according to researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine...
Tracking SARS-CoV-2 and its Evolving Variants
A new variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, appeared in Great Britain in greater frequency in December and has been reported in New York State. The new variant appears to spread more rapidly than older ones and has a distinct set of...
Why Testing New Medicines in a Diverse Population Is Important
Companies are working to develop new vaccines for COVID-19, and one of the many challenges is ensuring that clinical trials required to test the new medicines reflect the population at large in order to determine how effective the vaccines will be when...
mRNA Vaccine Technology Makes Its Extraordinary Debut
The mRNA technology used to create the first two COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer Inc., and Moderna, Inc. will undoubtedly change the course of vaccine development for years to come.Both companies have “shown that the vaccines are extraordinary,” says Peter...
Mount Sinai Researchers Use Apple Watch to Predict COVID-19
Subtle changes in an individual’s heartbeat, which can be measured on an Apple Watch, are able to signal the onset of COVID-19 up to seven days before individuals are diagnosed with the infection. That preliminary observation was made by...
Esteemed Vaccinologist Weighs in on New Vaccines and the ‘Beginning of the End of the Pandemic’
“Dear world, we have a vaccine!”Florian Krammer, PhD, Professor of Vaccinology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai recently tweeted this in response to news of the interim results to Pfizer Inc.’s COVID-19 vaccine clinical trial, which showed...
New England Journal of Medicine Study of Marine Recruits Provides Lessons in Controlling the Spread of COVID-19
To effectively control the spread of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, public health measures such as wearing face masks, social distancing, and handwashing must be combined with repeated and widespread testing. That is the conclusion of a new study in The...
Overwhelming Majority of People Mount a Strong Immune Response to COVID-19: A Good Sign for Future Vaccines
More than 90 percent of people who recovered at home from mild and moderate cases of COVID-19 produced a robust and possibly protective level of antibodies that remained relatively stable for at least five months, according to a new study by researchers at the Icahn...