Apr 24, 2020

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Physician-Patient Alliance for Health and Safety (PPAHS) today announced the launch of a new, free virtual clinic and website, Virtual Patient Care, in response to the C...

Apr 24, 2020

By Bart Biesemans and Christian Levaux ANTWERP, Belgium (Reuters) - Workers in the port of Antwerp will next month begin testing wristbands developed by a Belgian technol...

Apr 24, 2020

By Marine Strauss BRUSSELS (Reuters) - From serving more fries to patients to engaging them in sewing face masks, Belgian psychiatric hospitals have carefully adapted thei...

Apr 24, 2020

By Gabriella Borter (Reuters) - Nurse Flora Ajayi parks her car on a residential block in Queens, New York and pops open the trunk, revealing plastic bins full of personal...

Apr 24, 2020

By Aleksandra Michalska (Reuters) - It starts as it has around the world with people leaning out of windows and standing on balconies clapping, cheering and banging pots a...

Apr 24, 2020

DUBAI (Reuters) - Police in the United Arab Emirates are deploying smart helmets that can scan the temperatures of hundreds of people every minute in their effort to combat the new coro...

Apr 23, 2020

By Kelsey Johnson OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada is failing its seniors as officials struggle to contain fatal outbreaks of the novel coronavirus in long-term care homes across...

Apr 23, 2020

By Beatrix Lockwood NEW YORK (Reuters) - Several months into the coronavirus pandemic, information about COVID-19 continues to change rapidly and many questions about the ...

Apr 23, 2020

By James Mackenzie and Alex Fraser MILAN (Reuters) - The northern Italian region of Lombardy, at the epicentre of Europe's worst coronavirus outbreak, began an antibody te...

Apr 23, 2020

By Kate Kelland and Valentina Consiglio LONDON/ROME (Reuters) - Scientists in Britain began clinical trials of a potential COVID-19 vaccine on Thursday as other vaccine de...

Apr 23, 2020

As a physician, patients come to you seeking accurate information. Right now, myths about COVID-19 swirl around the internet. You need to set the record straight. The following nine myths expose the d...

Apr 23, 2020

LONDON (Reuters) - England's COVID-19 death toll in hospitals rose by 514 to 16,786, the National Health Service said on Thursday NHS England said that the people were ag...

Apr 23, 2020

By Sanjeev Miglani and Asif Shahzad NEW DELHI (Reuters) - South Asia's coronavirus infections have crossed 37,000, with more than half in India, official data showed on Th...

Apr 23, 2020

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany gave the green light for human trials of potential coronavirus vaccines developed by German biotech company BioNTech, which is racing teams in Germany, the U....

Apr 23, 2020

By Deborah J. Nelson (Reuters) - Scientists are baffled by how the coronavirus attacks the body - killing many patients while barely affecting others. But so...

Apr 23, 2020

By Brenda Goh WUHAN, China (Reuters) - Trader He Ximing in the Chinese city of Wuhan says he has no idea how or where he caught the coronavirus or why repeated nucleic aci...

Apr 23, 2020

Standard supportive care bested either HC alone or combined with azithromycin The much-touted hydroxychloroquine (HC) for treatment of patients with Covid-19, combined with or without azithromycin (A...

Apr 23, 2020

Clyde W. Yancy, MD, praises response of colleagues but gives voice to exhaustion Updated on 4/22/20 On March 18, Peggy Peck, BreakingMED Editor-in-Chief, conducted a video interview with Clyde W. ...

Apr 22, 2020

By Rich McKay and Maria Caspani ATLANTA (Reuters) - Governors of about half a dozen U.S. states pushed ahead on Tuesday with plans to partially reopen for business despite...

Apr 22, 2020

By John Miller ZURICH (Reuters) - Some blood tests being marketed to tell people if they have had the new coronavirus are a "disaster", Roche <ROG.S> Chief Executive...