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US regulators gave emergency authorization to a fourth test for coronavirus antibodies in an effort to help health authorities identify who has already been infected and may have developed immunity to the virus on Wednesday. Mt Sinai Health System, in New York, was the first lab in the US to announce it had developed such … Read more
US regulators have given emergency use permission for a device to filter coronavirus patients’ blood in an effort to combat the devastating effects of severe inflammation. Doctors believe that many of those who die of coronavirus die as a result of the so-called ‘cytokine storm’ – a deluge of inflammation meant to help fight the … Read more
FDA gives emergency approval to first coronavirus blood test that can detect when people have become immune to the infection amid hopes they can return to work and ‘jump start the economy’ The FDA has issued an Emergency Use Authorization for the first coronavirus antibody test The test, developed by medical device company Cellex Inc, … Read more
US health official are demanding drugmakers immediately pull their popular heartburn drugs off the market after determining that a contamination issue with the medications poses a greater risk than previously thought. Animal studies suggest the chemical found last year in Zantac and its generics, NDMA, may be linked to colorectal, kidney, and stomach cancers. The … Read more
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has warned American companies against shipping at-home coronavirus testing kits, despite relaxing its approval process for diagnostics for the virus sweeping the nation and globe. It comes after several companies, including Silicon Valley biotech start-ups like Nurx and Carbon Health began developing their own at-home sample collection sets. … Read more
The US Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved the first treatment in the US for the coronavirus that has infected more than 50,000 Americans: blood plasma from people who have cleared the infection. Blood plasma from recovered COVID-19 patients is rich in antibodies their immune system has developed to fight the infection. China began … Read more
Dr. Tony Fauci said on Saturday that President Donald Trump was ‘talking about hope’ when he bragged that malaria drugs could be a ‘gift from god’ to cure the coronavirus and not whether the medication ‘actually works.’ ‘The president is talking about hope for people and it’s not an unreasonable thing to hope for people,’ … Read more
The US is fast-tracking the anti-malarial drug chloroquine for use as a treatment against the new coronavirus, President Donald Trump said Thursday. ‘They’ve gone through the approval process – it’s been approved. They took it down from many, many months to immediate. So we’re going to be able to make that drug available by prescription.’ … Read more
A North Carolina-based company says its 15-minute blood test is already being widely used by the Chinese CDC, helping officials there to diagnose more patients, faster. On Thursday, that company, BioMedomics, announced its ‘quick and easy’ test is ready and being used in South Korea, Japan, Italy and some countries in the Middle East. But … Read more
A North Carolina company claims that their disinfectant can kill the coronavirus that’s now spread to nearly 90 Americans. Enviro-Master, based in Charlotte, says that its Virus Vaporizer bathroom cleaning product is ‘proven’ to kill the virus, according to CBS17. Virus Vaporizer is hospital-grade disinfectant that purports to kill everything from MRSA to H1N1 flu … Read more