May 04, 2020

MONDAY, May 4, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Patients with COVID-19 who receive hydroxychloroquine have a high risk for corrected QT (QTc) prolongation, according to a study published online May 1 in JAMA ...

May 04, 2020

MONDAY, May 4, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- In guidelines from the Infectious Diseases Society of America, recommendations are presented for personal protective equipment (PPE) use by health care provider...

May 01, 2020

The coronavirus outbreak has enforced social distancing, isolation, and quarantines around the world. As a result of the need to distance, telehealth has become the norm and not the exception for medi...

May 01, 2020

With prior research indicating that patients with cancer are generally more vulnerable to infections, study investigators felt systematic analysis of diverse cohorts of patients with cancer affected b...

May 01, 2020

If you’re a primary care physician, chances are that your practice has changed considerably during the COVID-19 pandemic.  For all of us in the healthcare community, our lives, and the practice of ...

May 01, 2020

Drug shows promise in an unpublished trial, but no benefit in first peer-reviewed clinical trial Despite conflicting data on the efficacy of the investigational drug remdesivir for the treatment of S...

May 01, 2020

Experts warn ’time is of the essence’ to put contact tracers in place It will take an army of disease detectives to win the next stage of the battle against Covid-19, the sometimes-deadly disease...

May 01, 2020

Google searches for hydroxychloroquine surged following endorsement When presidents and other leaders or experts speak, people listen. Worse, they sometimes act as in the case of a man in Arizona who...

Apr 30, 2020

By Deena Beasley (Reuters) - Gilead Sciences Inc, maker of the closely-watched experimental coronavirus drug remdesivir, on Thursday said it will work with international p...

Apr 30, 2020

By David Ljunggren OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's coronavirus curve is flat but worrying trends are emerging, particularly outbreaks in vulnerable indigenous communities, the...

Apr 30, 2020

(Reuters) - The U.S. Navy hospital ship Comfort departed New York harbor on Thursday, just a month after arriving to help ease the strain on overburdened city hospitals dealing with the...

Apr 30, 2020

By Saumya Joseph (Reuters) - At least 10 different drug compounds ranging from cancer therapies to antipsychotics and antihistamines may be effective at preventing the new...

Apr 30, 2020

By Benoit Tessier TAVERNY, France (Reuters) - Georg Dorfmuller had hardly been sick during a career that saw him rise to become a top paediatric neurosurgeon in Paris, bu...

Apr 30, 2020

By Pushkala Aripaka (Reuters) - Britain's AstraZeneca <AZN.L> joined forces with the University of Oxford on Thursday to help develop, produce and distribute a poten...

Apr 30, 2020

By Andrew Osborn and Polina Nikolskaya MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's nationwide tally of confirmed coronavirus cases surged past the 100,000 mark on Thursday after a record ...

Apr 30, 2020

(Reuters) - More than 3.21 million people have reportedly been infected by the novel coronavirus globally, and 227,864 have died, according to a Reuters tally as of 1400 GMT on Thursday...

Apr 30, 2020

By Lucas Jackson NEW YORK (Reuters) - The city of New York delivered a freezer truck to a funeral home on Wednesday after it was found to be storing dead bodies in unrefri...

Apr 30, 2020

By Ilya Zhegulev KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine reached 10,000 coronavirus cases on Thursday and its health minister urged people not to violate lockdown measures that have kept...

Apr 30, 2020

PARIS (Reuters) - The World Health Organization is worried by the community spread of the new coronavirus in a significant number of West African countries, the regional head of the org...

Apr 30, 2020

ZURICH (Reuters) - Researchers in Switzerland have been able to detect the new corovarirus at even low concentrations in wastewater, offering a potential early warning system for flareu...