Apr 22, 2020

(Reuters) - Laboratory and drug development services provider LabCorp said on Wednesday it would expand the availability of its antibody tests for the new coronavirus to more hospitals ...

Apr 22, 2020

BERLIN (Reuters) - Health Minister Jens Spahn said on Wednesday that it would take months to get any vaccine for coronavirus ready after Germany's vaccines regulator approved live human...

Apr 22, 2020

Using NY, Conn as models, AMA seeks to alleviate nationwide liability during pandemic response The AMA, on Monday, April 20, wrote a letter to the National Governors Association (AGA) asking that the...

Apr 22, 2020

Clyde W. Yancy, MD, praises response of colleagues but gives voice to exhaustion On March 18, Peggy Peck, BreakingMED Editor-in-Chief, conducted a video interview with Clyde W. Yancy, MD, Vice Dean f...

Apr 22, 2020

Seattle’s James D. Bowen, MD, talks about flattening the curve On March 21, Peggy Peck, BreakingMED Editor-in-Chief, recorded a video interview with James D. Bowen, MD, Medical Director, Multiple S...

Apr 22, 2020

Test kits should be on the market within weeks WASHINGTON — The FDA authorized the first at-home testing option for Covid-19 to LabCorp. The home RT-PCR testing kit will enable self-swabbing of...

Apr 22, 2020

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico has entered what the government calls "Phase 3" of the spread of the new coronavirus, the most serious stage, as transmission of the virus is intensifying...

Apr 22, 2020

By Brenda Goh WUHAN, China (Reuters) - Dressed in a hazmat suit, two masks and a face shield, Du Mingjun knocked on the mahogany door of a flat in a suburban district of W...

Apr 21, 2020

By Sanjeev Miglani and Syed Raza Hassan NEW DELHI/ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - About 500 people entered self-isolation in staff quarters of India's presidential palace on Tuesday...

Apr 21, 2020

By Saumya Joseph (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized at-home sample collection for LabCorp's COVID-19 diagnostic kit, the agency said on Tuesday, ...

Apr 21, 2020

GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday that all available evidence suggests the novel coronavirus originated in animals in China late last year and was n...

Apr 21, 2020

BEIJING (Reuters) - The World Health Organization warned on Tuesday that any lifting of lockdowns to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus must be gradual, and if restrictions wer...

Apr 21, 2020

By Yoshifumi Takemoto TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan will decide during its Golden Week holiday between April 29 and May 6 whether to extend its month-long state of emergency to ...

Apr 21, 2020

By Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Some 4.1% of adults tested positive for coronavirus antibodies in a study of Los Angeles County residents, health officials said on...

Apr 21, 2020

BARCELONA (Reuters) - Spanish pharmaceutical company Grifols said on Tuesday the hyperimmune immunoglobins it is developing as a treatment against SARS-COV-2 could be ready in mid-July....

Apr 21, 2020

By Jarrett Renshaw HARRISBURG, Pa. (Reuters) - The U.S. debate over restrictions for fighting the coronavirus intensified on Monday, as protesters labeled mandatory lockdo...

Apr 21, 2020

The three-arm, placebo-controlled, phase III trial will take place at more than a dozen U.S. sites Novartis received FDA approval to study hydroxychloroquine in a group of 440 patients with Covid-19....

Apr 21, 2020

Since early March, calls to poison centers about exposures to cleaning and disinfectant chemicals increased sharply, according to an early online report in MMWR. Moreover, when comparing the first ...

Apr 21, 2020

Let’s look at the evidence. Was the emergence of the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 a natural event, a spillover from the bats that naturally host close relatives of the virus? Or did a virology lab ...

Apr 20, 2020

By John Miller and Michael Erman ZURICH/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Swiss drugmaker Novartis AG said on Monday it will test the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine in a randomized trial to see if the much tal...