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...

Apr 28, 2020

Yes, but for how long? The devil is in the details. The consensus among those studying the immune response to SARS-CoV-2 infection is that antibodies do, in fact, equal immunity. But the devil, as al...

Apr 27, 2020

By Michael Erman and Saumya Joseph (Reuters) - Results of a study of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc and Sanofi SA's rheumatoid arthritis drug Kevzara indicate it may only h...

Apr 27, 2020

By Kate Kelland and Raphael Satter LONDON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's musings on whether injecting disinfectants might treat COVID-19 horrified me...

Apr 27, 2020

By Mohammed Ghobari and Aziz El Yaakoubi ADEN/DUBAI (Reuters) - When doctors first confirmed Yemeni port official Saleh had contracted COVID-19, authorities raced to trac...

Apr 27, 2020

By Colin Packham SYDNEY (Reuters) - More than two million Australians have downloaded an app to trace contacts of COVID-19 patients hours after its release, the government...

Apr 27, 2020

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's federal medical research agency on Monday asked state government to stop using coronavirus testing equipment brought from China because of conflicting resu...

Apr 27, 2020

By Gabriel Crossley and Lusha Zhang BEIJING (Reuters) - China will focus testing for COVID-19 on high-risk groups such as people from infected areas or with symptoms, the ...

Apr 27, 2020

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand will extend a state of emergency over the coronavirus until the end of May, but will consider easing some restrictions on businesses and public activities a...

Apr 27, 2020

PARIS (Reuters) - Healthcare and clinical diagnostics company Novacyt has signed a supply contract with the UK's Department of Health & Social Care (DHSC) for its product aimed at t...

Apr 27, 2020

(This April 26 story has been refiled to correct spelling of commerce ministry official's first name in paragraph four) BEIJING (Reuters) - China is dropping a requiremen...

Apr 27, 2020

From a field hospital in NYC, and an ED in Birmingham, ’the story of this disease changes every 24 hours’ Recent published reports —a state of the science review in the Journal of t...

Apr 27, 2020

But at least three children in the U.S. have died from coronavirus complications The vast majority of children infected with SARS-CoV-2 have only mild symptoms and fully recover within two weeks, fin...

Apr 27, 2020

’Life-threatening arrythmias’ cited by FDA WASHINGTON — The FDA issued a warning about hydroxychloroquine’s "serious and potentially life-threatening heart rhythm problems" wh...

Apr 27, 2020

Patients treated with high doses of the malaria drug also had more evidence of new arrhythmia Treatment with a high-doses of the malaria drug chloroquine appeared to be associated with increased hear...

Apr 26, 2020

By Maayan Lubell JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Citing grave dangers to privacy, Israel's Supreme Court ruled on Sunday that the government must bring its use of mobile phone track...

Apr 26, 2020

By Lidia Kelly MELBOURNE (Reuters) - The Australian government launched a controversial coronavirus tracing app on Sunday and promised to legislate privacy protections aro...

Apr 25, 2020

GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Saturday that there was currently "no evidence" that people who have recovered from COVID-19 and have antibodies are prote...

Apr 24, 2020

By Kate Kelland and Julie Steenhuysen (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's musings about whether disinfectants and ultraviolet light can be inserted into patients' bo...

Apr 24, 2020

By Stephanie Nebehay and Michael Shields GENEVA/ZURICH (Reuters) - World leaders pledged on Friday to accelerate work on tests, drugs and vaccines against COVID-19 and to ...