May 10, 2020

By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - Men's blood has higher levels than women's of a key enzyme used by the new coronavirus to infect cells, the results of a big European st...

May 10, 2020

By Lovasoa Rabary ANTANANARIVO (Reuters) - Madagascar is putting its self-proclaimed, plant-based "cure" for COVID-19 on sale and several countries in Africa have already ...

May 10, 2020

By Kanishka Singh, Chris Prentice and Mike Stone (Reuters) - Three senior officials guiding the U.S. response to the coronavirus pandemic were in self-quarantine on Saturd...

May 08, 2020

By Emma Rumney SOWETO, South Africa (Reuters) - Maaki Modimola sways along to a hymn in the yard of her dead sister's home in the South African township of Soweto, a bottl...

May 08, 2020

(Reuters) - Sorrento Therapeutics Inc on Friday partnered with New York City's Mount Sinai Health System to develop an antibody cocktail to potentially treat or prevent COVID-19, with t...

May 08, 2020

By Colin Packham SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia will ease social distancing restrictions in a three-step process, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Friday, as Canberra a...

May 08, 2020

We are fighting multiple health devils in our daily lives. While COVID-19 is the most recent one, it’s important that we do not lay our eyes off a few of those healthcare issues that have been affli...

May 08, 2020

Intubation and death neither higher nor lower with the drug An observational study of the use of hydroxychloroquine for the treatment of patients with Covid-19 reported inconclusive results in the Ne...

May 08, 2020

Toll thus far: 42 warning letters, and one injunction WASHINGTON — As part of the FDA’s crack-down on bogus Covid-19 cures, a U.S. District Court Judge issued a temporary restraining orde...

May 08, 2020

By Deena Beasley The Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA) is asking for more information on the federal government's plan for deciding how and where to supply the ...

May 08, 2020

By Elizabeth Culliford (Reuters) - Facebook Inc and YouTube, the video service of Alphabet Inc's Google, said on Thursday that they were removing a video that made medical...

May 07, 2020

By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - A series of studies of the genomes of thousands of samples of the new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 show that it is mutating and evolving as it...

May 07, 2020

By Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) - After a week or so sick in bed in their New York City apartment in March, members of the Johnson-Baruch family were convinced they h...

May 07, 2020

When it comes to rates of infection and addiction, both the coronavirus pandemic and the opioid epidemic disproportionately impact the poorest and most vulnerable members of society. As physicians, it...

May 07, 2020

A foundational barrier to process improvement, whatever the approach, is that it generally offers a moral wound up front, with a promise of suturing, healing, and better things for the distant future....

May 07, 2020

(Reuters) - Moderna Inc said on Thursday it expects mid-stage trials for its COVID-19 vaccine to begin shortly while late-stage trials are expected to begin early summer, as the drug de...

May 07, 2020

By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. scientists are working to understand a rare, life-threatening inflammatory syndrome in children associated with exposure to t...

May 07, 2020

By Kiyoshi Takenaka TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan on Thursday approved Gilead Sciences Inc's remdesivir as a treatment for COVID-19, making it the country's first officially aut...

May 07, 2020

By Yew Lun Tian BEIJING (Reuters) - China said on Thursday it supports the World Health Organization (WHO) in trying to pinpoint the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic and a...

May 07, 2020

Speaks out against scapegoating of Asians and Pacific Islanders The American Medical Association, on May 4, urged public health officials and the media to refrain from using "racially-charged and xen...