May 15, 2020

Singing, close proximity of members thought to hasten infection Choir practice may have facilitated the quick transmission of Covid-19 to members of a church choir, most likely through close proximit...

May 15, 2020

Small series points to complex issues for HT patients with Covid-19 Over an 8-week period beginning March 1, doctors at a large academic medical center in New York confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection in 2...

May 15, 2020

ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss drugmaker Roche said on Friday it will start selling a new digital diagnostics product that may simplify and accelerate screening of patients with breathing pro...

May 14, 2020

By Tom Hals (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Labor issued its first workplace guidance to nursing homes on Thursday since the COVID-19 pandemic swept the country and rav...

May 14, 2020

(This May 13 story corrects to remove reference to University of Kentucky trial in penultimate paragraph) By Rocky Swift and Christine Soares TOKYO (Reuters...

May 14, 2020

By Rocky Swift TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan has begun treating severely ill COVID-19 patients with Gilead Sciences Inc's coronavirus drug remdesivir, days after granting emerge...

May 14, 2020

By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - A mental illness crisis is looming as millions of people worldwide are surrounded by death and disease and forced into isolation, povert...

May 14, 2020

AMSTERDAM/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A vaccine to counter the new coronavirus could be approved in about a year in an "optimistic" scenario, a agency which approves medicines for the European...

May 14, 2020

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump is mobilizing the U.S. military to distribute a novel coronavirus vaccine when one becomes available and will focus first on older American...

May 14, 2020

By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) - Over a third of patients treated for COVID-19 in a large New York medical system developed acute kidney injury, and nearly 15% req...

May 14, 2020

Fauci et al on what to expect come Fall WASHINGTON—The United States does not have the coronavirus under control, Anthony S. Fauci, MD, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infecti...

May 14, 2020

Pediatric multi-system inflammatory syndrome reported in 15 U.S. states, 5 European countries Three children in New York have died after showing symptoms of the mysterious illness now known as pediat...

May 14, 2020

Four of six patients in case series were weaned off respiratory support An investigational allogeneic cell therapy using cardiosphere-derived cells (CDC) showed an acceptable safety profile with earl...

May 13, 2020

By Michael Erman NEW YORK (Reuters) - French drugmaker Sanofi SA said on Wednesday that it is working with European regulators to speed up access to a potential coronaviru...

May 13, 2020

By Chris Canipe and Lisa Shumaker (Reuters) - Nearly all 50 U.S. states have begun to allow some businesses to reopen and residents to move more freely, but only 14 states...

May 13, 2020

By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization said on Tuesday that some treatments appear to be limiting the severity or length of the COVID-19 disease, r...

May 13, 2020

By Guy Faulconbridge LONDON (Reuters) - British researchers will study the genes of thousands of ill COVID-19 patients to try to crack one of the most puzzling riddles of ...

May 13, 2020

By Yawen Chen and Ryan Woo BEIJING (Reuters) - Authorities in the Chinese city where the novel coronavirus emerged launched an ambitious campaign on Wednesday to test all ...

May 13, 2020

NCDR Chest Pain-MI and CathPCI registries adds module to capture these data WASHINGTON — What’s the relationship between Covid-19 and heart disease? The American College of Cardiology aim...

May 13, 2020

Did you know most of our generic drugs come from China? Lynne Peterson is the Senior Writer for Trends-in-Medicine.This is Part 2 of our 2-part Covid-19 Update, focusing on supplies, therapeutics, an...