Two drugs touted as potential COVID-19 treatments, ivermectin and fluvoxamine, don't do a thing to improve patients' oxygen levels and keep them out of the hospital or the morgue, a new clinical trial has shown.
Aug 18, 2022
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A National Institutes of Health clinical trial has found that a monoclonal antibody, mepolizumab, decreased asthma attacks by 27% in Black and Hispanic children and adolescents who have a form of severe asthma, are prone ...
Aug 10, 2022
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Future treatments for advanced cancer could work by sticking cancer cells in place and preventing their spread around the body. A new study by researchers at the University of California, Davis, and the University of Washington ...
Aug 3, 2022
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Northwestern Medicine scientists Ramon Lorenzo-Redondo, Ph.D., and Egon Ozer, MD, Ph.D., recently flew into the airport in Iquitos, a remote Peruvian city in the depths of the Amazon jungle accessible only by plane or river ...
Jul 29, 2022
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The AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG), the largest global HIV research network, which expanded to conduct research into COVID-19, today announced the publication of "Monoclonal Antibody Treatment Drives Rapid Culture Conversion ...
Jul 26, 2022
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People who supplement rescue inhalers with a second asthma medication sometimes get little relief at first, but there's good news: Those who keep trying different options often find a medication that works, according to Rutgers ...
Jul 22, 2022
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Researchers have called for an experimental COVID treatment, which has shown early indications of being more effective against dominant Omicron subvariants, to be made available outside the United States.
Jul 22, 2022
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Australia is currently in its third omicron wave (second if you live in Western Australia). This one is caused by the subvariants BA.4 and BA.5.
Jul 20, 2022
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A monoclonal antibody treatment taken by patients hospitalized with COVID-19 did not improve recovery time but did reduce deaths, according to a study published July 8 in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine.
Jul 11, 2022
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Army scientists and industry partners were among the first to demonstrate that messenger RNA (mRNA)—the technology recently used in COVID-19 vaccines and others—could also be used to develop treatments for infectious ...
Jul 6, 2022
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