May 27, 2020

By Matthias Blamont, Alistair Smout and Emilio Parodi PARIS/LONDON/MILAN (Reuters) - European governments moved on Wednesday to halt the use of anti-malaria drug hydroxych...

May 27, 2020

By Chris Canipe and Lisa Shumaker (Reuters) - Twenty U.S. states reported an increase in new cases of COVID-19 for the week ended May 24, up from 13 states in the prior we...

May 27, 2020

By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) - Two children who are the first suspected cases in South Korea of a rare, life-threatening syndrome linked with the new coronavirus, are r...

May 27, 2020

By Caroline Humer and Julie Steenhuysen NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. pharmacy chains are preparing a big push for flu vaccinations when the season kicks off in October, hopin...

May 26, 2020

By Sergio Queiroz RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazilian nurse Rusia Goes gave birth while unconscious and breathing through a ventilator tube in April as she battled severe...

May 26, 2020

By Julie Steenhuysen and Michael Erman CHICAGO (Reuters) - Merck & Co Inc <MRK.N>, which has largely kept to the sidelines of the race for COVID-19 treatments, s...

May 26, 2020

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will provide the anti-viral drug remdesivir to certain COVID-19 patients that it is most likely to benefit as part of a collaboration with manufacturer Gilead...

May 26, 2020

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union ended its controls on the export of coronavirus protective equipment on Tuesday after concluding that supplies for European medical and other workers were now a...

May 26, 2020

By Stephen Nellis (Reuters) - A group of tech companies is working on a patch about the size of small bandage that could be worn to monitor for the elevated body temperatu...

May 26, 2020

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A global campaign to fund the development of vaccines and therapies against COVID-19 has so far raised 9.5 billion euros ($10.4 billion), the head of the European ...

May 26, 2020

Three distinct differences in Covid-19 lungs vs lungs infected with H1N1 Death from Covid-19 marks the lungs in ways that are distinct from the lungs of persons whose death was caused by severe influ...

May 26, 2020

Surveillance of asymptomatic persons, early social distancing, other infection control measures show positive outcome A Covid-19 outbreak investigation at a Seattle independent and assisted living fa...

May 26, 2020

Agency says list will be continually updated WASHINGTON —The FDA has posted a list of Covid-19 antibody tests that it has removed from its list of "tests being offered under the Policy for Coronavi...

May 25, 2020

GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization has suspended testing the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine in COVID-19 patients due to safety concerns, WHO Director General Tedros Adhan...

May 25, 2020

GENEVA (Reuters) - Countries where coronavirus infections are declining could still face an "immediate second peak" if they let up too soon on measures to halt the outbreak, the World H...

May 25, 2020

Research to date is observational There is preliminary, but growing, evidence that vitamin D may play a role in reducing the severity of Covid-19 infection and deaths, possibly by suppressing the ris...

May 24, 2020

ZURICH (Reuters) - First indications of the effectiveness of a potential vaccine against coronavirus may be available in the autumn, the head of the GAVI vaccine alliance told a Swiss n...

May 24, 2020

MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines' tally of coronavirus cases surpassed 14,000 on Sunday and the number of fatalities rose to 868, the health ministry said. The Departme...

May 24, 2020

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia on Sunday reported 153 coronavirus deaths over the previous 24 hours, the epidemic's highest daily toll, raising total fatalities to 3,541, the country's coron...

May 23, 2020

FRIDAY, May 22, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- A chest X-ray (CXR) severity score can predict outcomes among young and middle-aged adults with COVID-19 on presentation to the emergency department, according...