The drug remdesivir, long touted as a potential Covid-19 treatment, has been used to successfully cure a patient who suffered a rare reaction to the disease. A 31-year-old man infected with the coronavirus experienced unusual symptoms due to a genetic disorder called XLA, which prevented him from making antibodies to fight infection. The patient was … Read more
Rudy Giuliani revealed in a radio interview Tuesday that he is the latest Donald Trump associate to be getting an experimental treatment after testing positive for the coronavirus. Giuliani made the disclosure from George Washington University, where he is being treated for the coronavirus, on a day it was revealed his co-counsel in Trump’s effort … Read more
FDA gives emergency approval to Eli Lilly’s arthritis drug paired with remdesivir for treating hospitalized coronavirus patients – after WHO warns NOT to use the antiviral FDA issued emergency use authorization for the use of Eli Lilly’s rheumatoid arthritis drug baricitinib in combination with remdesiver to treat COVID-19 The approval, made Thursday, comes as World … Read more
Doctors should not treat coronavirus patients with remdesivir ‘regardless of how ill they are’, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned. The antiviral showed early promise in pre-clinical Covid-19 trials and has been used around the world to treat people with severe disease, including in the UK. But officials at the WHO have now said there … Read more
BREAKING NEWS: Gilead’s remdesivir gets FULL FDA approval as a treatment for coronavirus patients On Thursday, the FDA gave full approval for the antiviral drug remdesivir as a treatment for the novel coronavirus Previously, it was the only medication approved in the US to treat COVID-19 patients by emergency use A recent NIH study found remdesivir shortened coronavirus … Read more
BREAKING NEWS: Remdesivir has ‘little effect’ on COVID-19 death risks, WHO study study finds The antiviral remdesivir is one of just two COVID-19 treatments that has emergency FDA approval in the US A WHO trial of 11,266 hospitalized COVID-19 patients tested remdesivir, hydroxychloroquine, lopinavir and interferon treatments The SOLIDARITY trial found that none of the four … Read more
BREAKING NEWS: Remdesivir has ‘little effect’ on COVID-19 death risks, WHO study study finds The antiviral remdesivir is one of just two COVID-19 treatments that has emergency FDA approval in the US A WHO trial of 11,266 hospitalized COVID-19 patients tested remdesivir, hydroxychloroquine, lopinavir and interferon treatments The SOLIDARITY trial found that none of the four … Read more
Remdesivir shortens the amount of recovery time from COVID-19 and decreases the risk of death, final results of a study by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) show. Researchers found that the antiviral drug reduced the recovery time for hospitalized coronavirus patients by at least five days. What’s more, the medication was shown to lower … Read more
Donald Trump will continue taking a cocktail of drugs to combat COVID-19 while he fights the virus from the comfort of the White House, rather than the Walter Reed hospital. The president received oxygen on Friday in the White House, and medics will be ready in case he needs it again. He also, on Friday, … Read more
Fears are mounting over a global shortage of the coronavirus drug remdesivir, which is being used to treat Donald Trump after the US bought much of the world’s supply. The US President’s physician confirmed last night that Trump is being treated for the virus with the experimental anti-viral drug that was first developed to combat … Read more