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'A disaster': Roche CEO's verdict on some COVID-19 antibody tests

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...

Coronavirus crisis could push Swiss budget deficit to 6% of GDP

Apr 22, 2020

By John Revill and Brenna Hughes Neghaiwi ZURICH (Reuters) - Switzerland's federal budget deficit could jump to around 6% of national output this year, its finance ministe...

Face mask fashionistas get creative in the age of coronavirus

Apr 22, 2020

By Barbara Goldberg NEW YORK (Reuters) - In the weeks since the coronavirus pandemic put the world into a tailspin, the humble face mask has evolved into an American fashi...

LabCorp to expand availability of antibody tests for COVID-19

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 ...

It'll be months before coronavirus vaccine is ready: German minister

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...

Covid-19: AMA Asks Governors to Adopt Health Care Emergency Response Protections

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...

Updated Special Considerations for Heart Failure Patients: Covid-19

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...

Updated Special Considerations for Multiple Sclerosis Patients: COVID-19

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...

Covid-19: FDA Authorizes First At-Home Test Kit

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...

Mexico enters most serious 'Phase 3' spread of coronavirus epidemic

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...

Recovered, almost: China's early patients unable to shed coronavirus

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...

India presidential palace isolates 500 over virus scare, Pakistan's Khan to be tested

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...

FDA authorizes at-home sample collection for LabCorp's COVID-19 test

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, ...

Coronavirus very likely of animal origin, no sign of lab manipulation: WHO

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...

WHO warns lifting of coronavirus lockdowns must be gradual

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...

Japan waiting for Golden Week to decide on extending coronavirus emergency: sources

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 ...

Los Angeles coronavirus infections 40 times greater than known cases, antibody tests suggest

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...

Grifols says anti-coronavirus hyperimmune immunoglobins may be ready mid-July

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....

As protesters decry U.S. coronavirus lockdown, officials urge caution

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...

Covid-19: Novartis Launches RCT of Hydroxychloroquine

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....

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