May 20, 2020

Company hopes to start phase III trial in July The Dow surged 900 points on news that Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine — mRNA-1273 — showed promise in small phase I, open-label, dose rang...

May 19, 2020

By Deena Beasley (Reuters) - As countries begin to emerge from shutdowns imposed during the coronavirus pandemic, the issue of how the virus affects children and whether s...

May 19, 2020

By Michael Erman and Ankur Banerjee (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's administration awarded a contract worth up to $812 million for a new U.S. company to manufact...

May 19, 2020

By Guy Faulconbridge LONDON (Reuters) - There are tentative signs that children may not spread the novel coronavirus as much as adults, two top epidemiologists said on Tue...

May 19, 2020

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain must step up its testing and tracking to help tackle the coronavirus crisis, lawmakers said on Tuesday, criticising the government for dropping a programme to...

May 19, 2020

But letters to NEJM question study methodology A study published in early April on the compassionate use of remdesivir for Covid-19 has resulted in a bevy of letters to the editor in the New England ...

May 18, 2020

By Julie Steenhuysen and Saumya Joseph (Reuters) - Moderna Inc's <MRNA.O> experimental COVID-19 vaccine, the first to be tested in the United States, produced protec...

May 18, 2020

By Nick Brown (Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) plans a nationwide study of up to 325,000 people to track how the new coronavirus is sp...

May 18, 2020

By Nancy Lapid NEW YORK (Reuters) - The following is a brief roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and v...

May 18, 2020

By Nathan Allen MADRID (Reuters) - A comprehensive study of coronavirus antibodies present in the Spanish population will help the government decide which regions need mos...

May 18, 2020

BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the coronavirus pandemic would be overcome more quickly if the world works together to tackle it, adding that it was necessary to...

May 18, 2020

BEIJING (Reuters) - The city of Wuhan, the original epicentre of the new coronavirus outbreak in China, conducted 335,887 nucleic acid tests on May 17, the local health authority said o...

May 17, 2020

By Lisa Shumaker (Reuters) - Summer weather is enticing much of the world to emerge from coronavirus lockdowns as centers of the outbreak from New York to Italy and Spain ...

May 17, 2020

By Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. authorities are not yet seeing spikes in coronavirus cases in places that are reopening but it was still too early to determine...

May 16, 2020

(Reuters) - Several countries around the world began gradual easing of the coronavirus-led restrictions even as they grapple with the economic fallout from the pandemic. The city where ...

May 15, 2020

The latest installment of the #PWChat series centered around healthcare professionals' thoughts on the reopening of America during/from the current COVID-19 pandemic. Below are the highlights from ...

May 15, 2020

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Denmark, the first country in Europe to gradually start reopening, reported no coronavirus-related deaths on Friday from the day earlier for the first time since ...

May 15, 2020

(Reuters) - World's No.2 cigarette company British American Tobacco said on Friday it was ready to test its potential COVID-19 vaccine using proteins from tobacco leaves on humans, afte...

May 15, 2020

ZURICH (Reuters) - Any vaccine to fight the new coronavirus will not be ready for use for at least two years, the chief executive of Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis, which no long...

May 15, 2020

AMA warns of limitations of serological testing The FDA is handing out emergency use authorizations (EUAs) like candy in an attempt to get tests, therapeutics, and vaccines to market at record speed ...