Coronavirus : Covid-19 Treatment and Vaccine News

07/06/2020

US senator Rick Scott claimed "communist China won't share" its coronavirus vaccine. China's minister of science and technology just said otherwise.

26/04/2020

Marisa Leuzzi was able to help two critically ill COVID-19 patients: her aunt and a "complete stranger."

25/04/2020

Sean Doyle signed up for a trial for a coronavirus vaccines that uses new technology to try and reach a vaccine quicker. Experts debate whether these vaccines will work and make it through safety tests or change how we make vaccines forever.

22/04/2020

A vaccine developed by researchers at Oxford University will be tested on people on Thursday, U.K. Health Minister Matt Hancock said.

21/04/2020

Coronavirus patients taking hydroxychloroquine, a treatment touted by President Trump, were no less likely to need mechanical ventilation and had higher deaths rates compared to those who did not take the drug, according to a study of hundreds of patients at US Veterans Health Administration medical...

16/04/2020

Virologists are modifying a measles vaccine with a coronavirus protein, in the hopes of training the immune system to fight the virus.

12/04/2020

prognosis Coronavirus Vaccine Could Be Ready in Six Months: Times By Olivia Konotey-Ahulu 1:47 Coronavirus Vaccine Could Be Ready in Six Months: Times By Olivia Konotey-Ahulu , Scientist leading U.K. team says she is “80% confident” Trials on people expected to begin in the next two weeks LISTEN...

11/04/2020

In the global race to develop an effective vaccine to protect people against the novel coronavirus, China’s CanSino Bio has leapt ahead. The biotech has started enrollment activities of a phase 2 trial testing its recombinant shot, Ad5-nCoV, in healthy volunteers in the city of Wuhan.

11/04/2020

Eli Lilly and Co. undefined said late Friday it has reached an agreement with the National Institutes of Health to study one of its drugs as a COVID-19...

11/04/2020

A Phase II clinical trial has begun investigating the drug in patients with mild-to-moderate forms of the disease.

11/04/2020

Research Triangle Park-based BioCryst will conduct trials to see if its experimental yellow fever drug is effective against COVID-19.

11/04/2020

The method has been used to treat the sick in past epidemics, and it's generally considered low risk. Doctors around the nation have started using it on the sickest COVID-19 patients.

11/04/2020

Doctors at the University of Chicago Medical Center are using a helmet to treat COVID-19 patients who are struggling to breathe.

11/04/2020

The updated CDC guidance drops references to hydroxychloroquine anecdotal studies as a treatment for the coronavirus.

11/04/2020

Gilead Sciences Inc.’s experimental drug for patients with severe Covid-19 infections showed promise in an early analysis, raising tentative hope that the first treatment for the novel virus may be on the horizon.

10/04/2020

Not only have all the patients survived, according to Pluristem, but four of them showed improvement in respiratory parameters.

04/04/2020

Based on a compound discovered in 1998, the antiviral Favipiravir is already being used in Japan and Turkey. Its maker? A subsidiary of Fujifilm.

04/04/2020

The antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine has shown promise in treating the coronavirus – helping to speed up the recovery of a small number of patients suffering a mild form of the illness, accordi…

02/04/2020

The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is unveiling a possible candidate vaccine for the Coronavirus pandemic that has spread across the world.

31/03/2020

There is little evidence chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine are effective, but the president continues to tout them.

31/03/2020

COVID-19 vaccine candidates: 6 front-runners Vaccines are especially needed by health care workers on the front lines. ByDr. Chloë E. NunneleyMarch 31, 2020, 6:25 PM7 min read7 min readShare to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this article2:47Young people with COVID-19 speak out: ‘I never felt so mu...

31/03/2020

Johnson & Johnson said that it had made progress on a vaccine to prevent Covid-19 and that the product could be ready in early 2021.

29/03/2020

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Clinical and design considerations will be published online; goal is to support rapid scale-up of device production to alleviate hospital shortages.

29/03/2020

An Arizona couple, both in their 60s, became deathly ill after they ingested fish food that contained chloroquine phosphate.

29/03/2020

Federal health officials on Friday approved a coronavirus test that can provide results in less than 15 minutes, using the same technology that powers some rapid flu tests.

29/03/2020

Clinical trials to study a potential new vaccine for coronavirus began Friday morning at Emory University in Atlanta, the school announced.

29/03/2020

Two San Diego-based biotech companies are full steam ahead developing coronavirus vaccines that could help save millions of lives. San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer highlighted the companies, Arcturus Therapeutics and Inovio Pharmaceutical, Friday at his daily press conference, and gave representative...

29/03/2020

Dr. Skip Bohm hopes his research at the Tulane National Primate Research Center will help save thousands from COVID-19.

29/03/2020

The new vaccine is called ChAdOx1 nCoV-19.