Covid-19 has raised the issue of using traditional medicines to battle contemporary diseases, and the endorsement clearly encouraged testing... Sep 21
The coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, is the latest in a procession of new infectious diseases that have surprised the world in recent years... Sep 15
The head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said he would be willing to bypass the normal approval process to authorise a COVID-... Sep 01
The vaccines are based on a common cold virus that many people have been exposed to, potentially limiting their effectiveness... Aug 31
A third different type of vaccine from Pfizer Inc and German biotech BioNTech also showed promise in a small, early study released on Monday, adding ... Jul 21
Top executives at companies including aluminum giant United Co. Rusal, as well as billionaire tycoons and government officials... Jul 21
President John Magufuli rush to reopen came despite alarm from the World Health Organization over an almost total lack of information... Jul 08
Under Operation Warp Speed, the US is aiming to deliver millions of doses of safe and effective vaccines for COVID-19 in 2021.... Jul 08
Rapkiewicz, who directs autopsies at NYU Langone Health, noticed that some organs had far too many of a special type of cell rarely found in ... Jul 02
Remdesivir is expected to be in high demand as one of the only treatments so far shown to alter the course of COVID-19.... Jun 30
After a systematic review to assess whether ethnicity has been reported in patients with COVID-19 and its relation to clinical outcomes.... Jun 06
A clinical trial led to the authorization of the only drug shown to work in Covid-19 patients. But until now, few experts had seen ... May 25
The experimental antibody has neutralized the virus in cell cultures. While that's early in the drug development process, the antibody may help prevent or ... May 05
Remdesivir: In the first proof of successful treatment against the illness that has claimed more than 226,000 lives, a clinical trial of the drug ... Apr 30
Coronavirus: A draft summary went online briefly on the website of the World Health Organization (WHO) and was first reported by the Financial Times and ... Apr 24
Chinese men who recently had the disease were examined for conducting the study. The researchers found no evidence of the virus that causes COVID-19 ... Apr 24
Chinese scientists have said the virus likely jumped from an animal to humans in a market that sold wildlife in Wuhan, but the existence of ... Apr 18
The IMF board approved the debt relief for the countries, nearly all in Africa, but also Afghanistan, Yemen, Nepal and Haiti... Apr 14
The patients in the US, Italy, France, Austria, Spain, the Netherlands, Germany, Japan, and Canada received the drug intravenously for at least ten days.... Apr 13
As of 10 April 2020, 3456 confirmed and probable cases and 2276 deaths have occurred as a result of the outbreak.... Apr 11
Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Thursday that New York was bringing in additional funeral directors "to deal with the number of people who have passed." ... Apr 10
No funding for the Ebola response has been received by WHO since December 2019. An urgent injection of USD 20 million is required to ensure ... Mar 23
Research well underway as Janssen scientists collaborate with leading virology laboratory led by Dan Barouch, M.D., Janssen is optimistic that, in collaboration with multiple ... Mar 14