May 23, 2020

FRIDAY, May 22, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said Thursday it would provide up to $1.2 billion to AstraZeneca to develop a potential COVID-19 vaccine ...

May 23, 2020

(Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Saturday reported 1,595,885 cases of the new coronavirus, an increase of 24,268 cases from its previous count, a...

May 23, 2020

FRIDAY, May 22, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said Thursday it would provide up to $1.2 billion to AstraZeneca to develop a potential COVID-19 vaccine ...

May 23, 2020

FRIDAY, May 22, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Older age, male sex, and history of diabetes are factors predictive of intubation among hospitalized patients with COVID-19, while age and body mass index are ...

May 23, 2020

FRIDAY, May 22, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Modest delays in cancer surgery due to the COVID-19 pandemic could have a significant impact on survival, according to a study published online May 19 in the A...

May 23, 2020

FRIDAY, May 22, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- The antiobesity medications (AOMs) phentermine and topiramate may help mitigate weight regain (WR) after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) surgery, according to ...

May 22, 2020

By Deena Beasley (Reuters) - The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) on Friday said that data from its trial of Gilead Sciences Inc's <GILD.O> remdesivir show t...

May 22, 2020

By Ludwig Burger (Reuters) - Oxford University and AstraZeneca <AZN.L> are recruiting around 10,000 adults and children in Britain for trials of an experimental coro...

May 22, 2020

BEIJING (Reuters) - The city of Wuhan, the original epicentre of the new coronavirus outbreak in China, conducted 1,000,729 nucleic acid tests on May 21, the local health authority said...

May 21, 2020

(Reuters) - CVS Health Corp said on Thursday it was expanding drive-through testing sites for COVID-19 to 350 locations in 14 U.S. states with an aim to open 1,000 sites nationwide by ...

May 21, 2020

If you have patients who are hard-of-hearing, they may face additional struggles during the current pandemic. Dealing with the changes COVID-19 brought can prove challenging for anyone, but members of...

May 21, 2020

By Esther Verkaik AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Medical researchers in the Netherlands have signed up 1,500 people who have recovered from the new coronavirus to donate blood as p...

May 21, 2020

BEIJING (Reuters) - The city of Wuhan, the original epicentre of the new coronavirus outbreak in China, conducted 887,321 nucleic acid tests on May 20, the local health authority said o...

May 21, 2020

(Reuters) - The U.S. government has ordered 300 million doses of a potential COVID-19 virus being developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University and hopes first doses can be made availa...

May 21, 2020

The President is taking hydroxychloroquine. Should we worry? During a press briefing on May 18, President Donald Trump revealed that he is taking hydroxychloroquine along with zinc to prevent infecti...

May 21, 2020

Letter to HHS Secretary Azar asks for enough to offset 80% of lost revenue WASHINGTON —The American College of Physicians (ACP) sent a letter to HHS Secretary Alex Azar urging the agency to all...

May 20, 2020

By Nathan Allen and Michael Gore MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's fragile left-wing coalition won backing from political foes to extend a state of emergency on Wednesday as publ...

May 20, 2020

In late April 2020, over 500 independent practices were interviewed by Kareo to better understand the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on their practices' viability, patient volumes, and how ...

May 20, 2020

By Gabriella Borter (Reuters) - Becoming a nurse in 2018 was a dream come true for William Coddington. He loved helping people and feeling needed at his Wes...

May 20, 2020

By Deena Beasley (Reuters) - U.S. immunotherapy company Inovio Pharmaceuticals Inc <INO.O> said on Wednesday its experimental vaccine to prevent coronavirus infectio...