The Ebola virus can hide in the brains of monkeys that have recovered after medical treatment without causing symptoms and lead to recurrent infections, according to a study by a team I led that was published in the journal ...
Mar 16, 2022
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Aled Edwards is of two minds about medicine's response to COVID-19.
Mar 11, 2022
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Pfizer Inc. announced Tuesday that it has launched a Phase 2/3 clinical trial of its COVID antiviral pill known as Paxlovid in children ages 6-17.
Mar 9, 2022
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GPs can now prescribe antiviral pills for some of their vulnerable COVID-19 patients to take at home. More patients are expected to have access in coming weeks and months.
Feb 21, 2022
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New cases of COVID-19 in the United States have dropped by about 75% from the latest peak in mid-January, but as of Feb. 14, the two-year-old pandemic had claimed more than 920,000 lives, more than in any other country. Even ...
Feb 18, 2022
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New research shows for the first time why the antiviral drug remdesivir works against some viruses but not others—a finding that improves our understanding of how antiviral drugs interact with viruses at a molecular level, ...
Jan 13, 2022
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As the country set a record high for daily COVID-19 cases this week, new treatments like the Pfizer and Merck pills that help people avoid hospitalization couldn't come at a better time. For many, the approval of the new ...
Jan 3, 2022
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Pfizer said Tuesday that clinical trials confirmed its COVID pill—a new type of treatment that should withstand the mutations seen with the Omicron variant—drastically reduced hospitalizations and deaths among at-risk ...
Dec 14, 2021
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The rise of Omicron, the latest SARS-CoV-2 variant of concern, reminds us how quickly things can change during the pandemic.
Dec 9, 2021
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A panel of U.S. health advisers on Tuesday narrowly backed a closely watched COVID-19 pill from Merck, setting the stage for a likely authorization of the first drug that Americans could take at home to treat the coronavirus.
Dec 1, 2021
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