Apr 30, 2020

National testing strategy needed now The U.S. now has more than one million Covid-19 cases, eclipsing the number of cases in Spain, Italy, France, United Kingdom, and Germany combined. And, despite m...

Apr 30, 2020

More than half who tested positive had no symptoms In a Seattle-area nursing home that was hit with an early outbreak of Covid-19 cases, more than half of the residents who tested positive for SARS-C...

Apr 30, 2020

5-day regimen as effective as 10-day Tx Topline results from an open-label phase III trial of the novel antiviral remdesivir in hospitalized Covid-19 patients demonstrated efficacy for both 10-day an...

Apr 29, 2020

By Deena Beasley and Manas Mishra (Reuters) - The top U.S. infectious disease official said Gilead Sciences Inc's experimental antiviral drug remdesivir will become the st...

Apr 29, 2020

By Stephanie Nebehay and Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) - The "vast majority" of children with COVID-19 have mild cases and recover completely, but a small number in a few co...

Apr 29, 2020

By Gurman Bhatia and Manas Sharma (Reuters) - Despite infecting more than 3 million people around the world, there are still 33 countries and territories that have yet to ...

Apr 29, 2020

The following is reprinted, at the request of the author, from an article originally posted in Spanish to the IntraMed website. Intravenous vitamin C has been the object of numerous stu...

Apr 29, 2020

By Colin Packham SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's prime minister Scott Morrison said on Wednesday bans on international travel and large gatherings would stay in place even ...

Apr 29, 2020

By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) - The United States has reported more than a million coronavirus infections only because of its testing, President Donald Trump said on Wednesd...

Apr 29, 2020

By Terje Solsvik and Gwladys Fouche OSLO (Reuters) - Shares of Norway's BerGenBio more than doubled on Wednesday after a cancer drug it is developing was selected for a Br...

Apr 28, 2020

By Lisa Shumaker (Reuters) - The U.S. death toll from the novel coronavirus on Tuesday exceeded the 58,220 American lives lost during the Vietnam War as cases topped 1 mil...

Apr 28, 2020

By Andy Bruce LONDON (Reuters) - Britain is on track to record one of the worst coronavirus death tolls in Europe, after data published on Tuesday showed nationwide fatali...

Apr 28, 2020

By John Shiffman (This April 24 story corrects 16th paragraph to make clear the paper was a pre-print for the Lancet published at the research site SSRN and not published ...

Apr 28, 2020

By Guy Faulconbridge and Kate Holton LONDON (Reuters) - Some children in the United Kingdom with no underlying health conditions have died from a rare inflammatory syndrom...

Apr 28, 2020

By Robin Respaut and Deborah J. Nelson (Reuters) - Routine medical tests critical for detecting and monitoring cancer and other conditions plummeted in the United States s...

Apr 28, 2020

GENEVA (Reuters) - The coronavirus pandemic is "far from over" and is still disrupting normal health services, especially life-saving immunisation for children in the poorest countries,...

Apr 28, 2020

By David Stanway SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Claims that the coronavirus pandemic originated in a laboratory in the Chinese city of Wuhan have no basis in fact, the head of the l...

Apr 28, 2020

By Charlotte Greenfield and Jibran Ahmad ISLAMABAD/PESHAWAR (Reuters) - Disruptions to immunization programmes across South Asia due to the coronavirus pandemic are upendi...

Apr 28, 2020

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore's top medical authority said on Tuesday the number of migrant workers infected with coronavirus may be higher than official tallies due to a priority to ...

Apr 28, 2020

Most requiring mechanical ventilation did not survive in study of NY patients Fewer than a third of patients hospitalized for Covid-19 at New York’s largest hospital system were febrile at pres...