Oct 26, 2020

Much-touted antiviral drug gains full approval following EUA WASHINGTON — The FDA granted full approval to the antiviral drug remdesivir (Veklury) to treat patients 12 years and older who are hos...

Oct 26, 2020

RCT findings again at odds with observational studies Hospitalized Covid-19 patients treated with tocilizumab (8 mg/per kilogram) did not fare better than control patients, according to results from ...

Oct 26, 2020

President Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed to have saved 2 million lives from COVID-19 through his actions to combat the disease. Recently, he made the assertion during the NBC News town hall on...

Oct 26, 2020

Can’t see the audio player? Click here to listen on SoundCloud. For the first time in a long time, there is some good news about the coronavirus pandemic: Although cases continue to climb, fewe...

Oct 23, 2020

Advisory committee will set the bar for acceptable evidence for vaccine EUA The FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) is convening a virtual meeting October 22 ...

Oct 23, 2020

“Lord, give me back my memory.” For months, as Marilyn Walters has struggled to recover from COVID-19, she has repeated this prayer day and night. Like other older adults who’ve become cri...

Oct 23, 2020

Just 15 days ahead of the election, Montana Lt. Gov. Mike Cooney laid out his ideas on how he’d handle the COVID-19 pandemic if elected governor. Details were few, but the Democrat’s plan became o...

Oct 22, 2020

WEDNESDAY, Oct. 21, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- A third surge of COVID-19 cases now has a firm grip on the United States, with an average of 59,000 new infections being reported across the country every ...

Oct 22, 2020

WEDNESDAY, Oct. 21, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Anthony Fauci, M.D., the leading infectious disease expert in the United States, said on Wednesday he is "cautiously optimistic" that a COVID-19 vaccine wi...

Oct 22, 2020

When Terry Mutter woke up with a headache and sore muscles on a recent Wednesday, the competitive weightlifter chalked it up to a hard workout. By that evening, though, he had a fever of 101 degree...

Oct 21, 2020

There was a huge conundrum in the entire medical industry wherein an attempt was made to ensure that every possible person is in the position to find a cure for the deadly coronavirus. This was becaus...

Oct 20, 2020

MONDAY, Oct. 19, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. emergency sick leave provision in the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) was a highly effective policy tool to flatten the curve in the ...

Oct 20, 2020

MONDAY, Oct. 19, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- From May to August 2020, COVID-19-associated deaths occurred mainly among older adults and in certain racial and ethnic minorities, especially Hispanics, acco...

Oct 20, 2020

MONDAY, Oct. 19, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Pfizer will not apply for emergency authorization of its COVID-19 vaccine before the third week in November, the company's chief executive said in a statement...

Oct 20, 2020

Mitigating suicide risks will require community-wide efforts The Covid-19 pandemic has had profound effects on not only the physical health of individuals, but their mental health as well. An increa...

Oct 20, 2020

Company pushes back on findings from open-label trial A pre-publication copy of findings from the World Health Organization’s SOLIDARITY trial, which tested the efficacy of repurposing antiviral ...

Oct 20, 2020

Predictive value was independent of clinical, biomarker assessments Among patients hospitalized with Covid-19, adverse right ventricular remodeling on transthoracic echocardiography was a significa...

Oct 20, 2020

The people after the outbreak of the pandemic of the coronavirus have been in the position to understand that whatever is reported is not always the case. Therefore, at times, it becomes essential to ...

Oct 19, 2020

People with epilepsy (PWE) are particularly vulnerable to the changes in healthcare delivery that were necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic, but new data show that healthcare providers (HCPs) are als...

Oct 19, 2020

Letter from CEO dashes president’s hopes for pre-election vaccine Pfizer and BioNTech will not seek an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for their mRNA Covid-19 vaccine candidate until "soon after"...