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...

Apr 20, 2020

SAO PAULO/RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Monday he hopes this would be the last week of stay-at-home measures to try to slow the spread of the cor...

Apr 20, 2020

But pandemic’s silver lining may be more people coming together to help each other The Covid-19 pandemic brought us something on a global scale that hasn’t been seen before — social...

Apr 20, 2020

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore's health ministry confirmed on Monday an additional 1,426 cases of the COVID-19 infection, a record daily jump, mainly among foreign workers living in do...

Apr 20, 2020

By Polina Ivanova, Maria Tsvetkova and Anton Zverev MOSCOW (Reuters) - The novel coronavirus has penetrated more deeply into Moscow's population than official data show, ...

Apr 20, 2020

By Polina Ivanova MOSCOW (Reuters) - A black market has developed in Russia for an antiviral HIV drug explored as a possible treatment for COVID-19, the respiratory disea...

Apr 20, 2020

(Reuters) - Alexion Pharmaceuticals Inc said on Monday it would start a late-stage study of its rare blood-disorder drug, Ultomiris, in COVID-19 patients hospitalized with severe pneumo...

Apr 20, 2020

By Francesco Guarascio BRUSSELS (Reuters) - At least one victim of the coronavirus pandemic will not be mourned. Influenza, which each year kills hundreds of...

Apr 20, 2020

(Reuters) - IDEXX Laboratories Inc said on Monday it would provide veterinarians a COVID-19 test for pets amid evidence that infected humans could transmit the virus to their pets. ...

Apr 20, 2020

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain needs to be sure that any lifting or easing of social distancing measures does not lead to a second wave of the coronavirus outbreak, a spokesman for Prime Mi...

Apr 20, 2020

By Marine Strauss BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgium's immediate coronavirus crisis appears to have passed its peak as the number of people admitted to hospitals with COVID-19 f...

Apr 20, 2020

LONDON (Reuters) - The United Kingdom is preparing to collect the blood from COVID-19 survivors to investigate if convalescent plasma transfusions could improve an infected patient's sp...

Apr 20, 2020

By Doina Chiacu and Barbara Goldberg (Reuters) - Protests flared in U.S. states on Sunday over stay-at-home orders while governors disputed President Donald Trump's claims...

Apr 19, 2020

(Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Sunday reported 720,630 cases of the new coronavirus, an increase of 29,916 cases from its previous count, and said...

Apr 19, 2020

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A Belgian urologist has spoken of his "incredible" experience, having survived COVID-19 and been discharged from intensive care after three weeks in a coma. ...

Apr 17, 2020

(Reuters) - General Motors said on Friday it had started delivering the first batch of 54 ventilators to U.S. hospitals treating severely ill COVID-19 patients. GM said t...

Apr 17, 2020

By Manas Mishra (Reuters) - Gilead Sciences Inc on Friday increased enrollment target by 3,600 for a trial testing its experimental drug, remdesivir, in severe COVID-19 pa...

Apr 17, 2020

GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization is not sure whether the presence of antibodies in blood gives full protection against reinfection with the new coronavirus, Mike Ryan, t...