COVID-19 Behavior Seems Consistent With Seasonal Virus
THURSDAY, June 11, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Eight cities with substantial community outbreaks...
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Acalabrutinib Promising for Treatment of Severe COVID-19
THURSDAY, June 11, 2020 (HealthDay News) — For patients with severe COVID-19, treatment with...
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Early experience with convalescent plasma as immunotherapy for COVID-19 in China: Knowns and unknowns.
In the absence of a vaccine or specific drug treatment options for coronavirus disease (COVID-19),...
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Cancer and COVID-19: Unmasking their ties.
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV2) and its clinical manifestation,...
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Asthma and the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic: A Literature Review.
Even though respiratory viruses are one of the most common triggers for asthma exacerbations, not...
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Lancet, NEJM Retract Covid-19 Studies
Studies of RAAS inhibitors, hydroxychloroquine withdrawn for lack of third-party validation In the...
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Some COVID-19 Outpatients Say Famotidine Eased Symptoms
FRIDAY, June 5, 2020 (HealthDay News) — A small number of nonhospitalized patients with...
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Covid-19: Hydroxychloroquine Flops as Postexposure Prophylactic
But last word not yet spoken Hydroxychloroquine is back in the news as another study, just...
Read MoreHype Collides With Science As FDA Tries To Rein In ‘Wild West’ of COVID Blood Tests
Amid questions about the accuracy of the COVID-19 antibody tests flooding the market — and the usefulness of the results they provide — the FDA has belatedly stepped in to try to rein in the chaos.
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‘An Arm And A Leg’: The $7,000 COVID Test And Other Lessons From SEASON-19
“An Arm and a Leg” wraps an all-COVID podcast season with three different perspectives on what the pandemic is costing us — and what might come next.
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Hiring A Diverse Army To Track COVID-19 Amid Reopening
Experts estimate local and state health departments will have to hire 100,000 to 300,000 people as contact tracers to get the economy back on track. Many states are trying hard to hire from the racial and ethnic minority communities hit hardest by the virus.
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Rapid Response & Data Sharing During COVID-19 Pandemic
Physicians and healthcare systems across the world have been and continue to respond quickly as...
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BMI, Tracheal Intubation/Death Linked in Diabetes With COVID-19
In multivariable analyses with covariates, only BMI was positively linked to primary outcome
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Exclusive: Russia, after approving Japanese COVID-19 drug, to roll out ‘game changer’ next week
By Andrew Osborn MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia will start administering its first approved...
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Co-infections in people with COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
In previous influenza pandemics, bacterial co-infections have been a major cause of mortality. We...
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European, South Korean authorities vie for COVID-19 antiviral remdesivir
By Carl O’Donnell and Pushkala Aripaka (Reuters) – European and South Korean...
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Hydroxychloroquine combination risky for cancer patients with COVID-19: study
By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) – Cancer patients with COVID-19 who were treated with...
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AstraZeneca picks Oxford Biomedica to make potential COVID-19 vaccine
(Reuters) – AstraZeneca has partnered with British cell therapy company Oxford Biomedica to...
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Indonesia to keep prescribing two malaria drugs for COVID-19 despite bans in Europe
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia will continue to prescribe two anti-malaria drugs for...
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Covid-19: NIAID Unblinds Remdesivir Trial on Positive, Preliminary Results
Antiviral drug shown superior in lessening time to recovery over placebo Peer-reviewed results...
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