The World Health Organization considers Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome, or “ARDS,” to be the leading cause of death among COVID-19 infected patients. A Cleveland-based biotechnology company is holding clinical trials to see if its stem cell therapy could help COVID-19 induced ARDS patients. Since 1995, Athersys has worked on developing medicines that could fill unmet […]

Photobiomodulation therapy has been an FDA-approved treatment for inflammation and pain since 2011. KEY TAKEAWAYS The first U.S. coronavirus disease 2019 patient with lung injury treated with photobiomodulation therapy experienced improved respiratory indices, radiological findings, and oxygen requirements. A pair of critical care experts are skeptical about the laser treatment and say much more research […]

Scott Sigman, MD, fellow, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, is an orthopedic surgeon who is the first to tell you he did not expect to be on the front lines of the COVID-19 crisis. Yet he became the principal investigator for a case involving a patient with severe COVID-19 who developed pneumonia. In the early […]