WHO leader Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced today that the WHO will stop its investigations of the use of hydroxychloroquine for covid-19, NPR reported. The trials may resume, he said, pending a...
Category: Research
Pandemic Impacting Resources for Substance Use Disorder, Say NIH Leaders
Speaking via videoconference at the virtually-held Rx Drug and Heroin Abuse Summit in April, National Institutes of Health director, Dr. Francis Collins, discussed myriad challenges in service...
An international team of researchers has published a study in the prestigious journal Cell to report the successful use of llama antibodies to neutralize coronavirus. They also reported the isolation...
Researchers tracking the mutation of the novel coronavirus released a report on Thursday indicating that its now-dominant strain may have the potential to spread faster than strains that were more...
FEMA/CDC Report Projects 3,000 COVID-19 Deaths per Day by June 1
An internal report about the COVID-19 pandemic first disclosed to the public by the New York Times today projects a daily death count of approximately 3,000 by the beginning of June, up from the...
FDA Authorizes Remdesivir for Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients
The FDA notified Gilead Sciences in a letter dated May 1 that it has granted Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for remdesivir, an antiviral drug reportedly shown to decrease the time to recovery for...