Apr 17, 2020

By John Miller ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss drugmaker Roche aims next month to be able to offer blood tests to identify those who have been infected with the coronavirus, join...

Apr 17, 2020

By Paul Carrel BERLIN (Reuters) - The coronavirus outbreak in Germany has become manageable again as the number of patients who have recovered has been higher than the num...

Apr 17, 2020

Alexandria, VA – The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) today launched the ASCO Survey on COVID-19 in Oncology Registry (ASCO Registry) to help the entire cancer community learn ab...

Apr 17, 2020

By Mathieu Rosemain PARIS (Reuters) - France's state-supported "StopCovid" contact-tracing app project is creating friction between government and parliament amid preparat...

Apr 17, 2020

(Reuters) - Gilead Sciences Inc's shares surged 16% in after hours trading on Thursday following a media report detailing encouraging partial data from trials of the U.S. company's expe...

Apr 17, 2020

By Sanjeev Miglani and Mohamed Junayd NEW DELHI/MALE (Reuters) - The number of people infected with the coronavirus crossed 22,000 in densely populated South Asia on Frida...

Apr 17, 2020

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Prince William and his wife Kate urged people to look after their mental health during the novel coronavirus outbreak and drew attention to the particular p...

Apr 17, 2020

Independent Medical Practices Rapidly Deploying Telemedicine to Offset Steep Drop in Patient Office Visits Due to "Stay at Home" Orders IRVINE, Calif. - In a new survey conducted by Kareo, indep...

Apr 17, 2020

BELFAST (Reuters) - Forty-eight people died in Northern Irish care homes and private residences on top of the 109 COVID-19 hospital deaths reported a week ago, the region's statistics o...

Apr 17, 2020

PORTLAND, Ore. (Reuters) - Oregon resident George Polas learned in March he had an aggressive type of prostate cancer that would require surgical removal - just as the coronavirus pande...

Apr 16, 2020

(Reuters) - Moderna Inc said on Thursday that it received a $483 million contract from the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) to accelerate the development o...

Apr 16, 2020

(Reuters) - The U.S. Food & Drug Administration cautioned on Thursday that with a lot of its staff allocated to the coronavirus crisis, it may not be able to sustain its current lev...

Apr 16, 2020

We know a lot about what we don’t know Five months in, and the shape of the Covid-19 pandemic remains elusive, with the lack of clarity extending to what the disease looks like, who has it, who...

Apr 16, 2020

AMA says cutting funding during a pandemic ’is not in the U.S. interests’ President Donald J. Trump’s statement on April 14 that he was going to halt funding of the the World Health...

Apr 16, 2020

By Clara-Laeila Laudette and Emma Pinedo MADRID (Reuters) - Spain reported another substantial increase in daily deaths from COVID-19 on Thursday, taking the overall toll ...

Apr 16, 2020

By Sangmi Cha SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean health officials are investigating several possible explanations for a small but growing number of recovered coronavirus patie...

Apr 16, 2020

By Colin Packham SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia will retain curbs on public movement for at least four more weeks, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Thursday, dashing sp...

Apr 16, 2020

(Reuters) - Iran's official coronavirus death toll rose to 4,869 on Thursday but a parliamentary report said the actual number could be much higher and a deputy minister warned the infe...

Apr 16, 2020

By Sanjeev Miglani and Aftab Ahmed NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India has brought charges of culpable homicide not amounting to murder against the chief of a Muslim seminary for ...

Apr 16, 2020

By Costas Pitas LONDON (Reuters) - Britain has given regulatory approval to a ventilator which will be made by a group of companies including Airbus, Ford and McLaren, the...