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Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro held his hydroxychloroquine pills aloft like a trophy last night as he rallied with a crowd of supporters despite his coronavirus infection. Bolsonaro greeted his fans outside the presidential palace in Brasilia where he has been in quarantine since announcing his positive test result on July 7. Supporters cheered as Bolsonaro … Read more
Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro last night revealed he is taking hydroxychloroquine to treat his coronavirus infection and claimed it was making him ‘a lot better’. Hours after announcing his positive test result, Bolsonaro showed off footage of himself taking a dose of the anti-malaria drug – which is touted by him and Donald Trump but … Read more
More than 1,200 studies looking at treatment and prevention of coronavirus are often too small to provide conclusive results and are focusing too much on one potential therapy, a new analysis reveals. Commissioned by STAT News, the report found that one in every six clinical trials studied the anti-malaria drugs hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine despite thin … Read more
Prescriptions for two anti-malaria drugs to treat the novel coronavirus soared by hundreds of thousands in March, a new study suggests. Typically, only about 380,000 people are prescribed hydroxychloroquine and its analog chloroquine to treat malaria, lupus and rheumatoid arthritis. However, in March, President Donald Trump has hailed the drug, which also is used to treat … Read more
After repeated failures in previous research, a new study suggests hydroxychloroquine can improve survival odds for some coronavirus patients. Hospitalized coronavirus patients given hydroxychloroquine were 50 percent less likely to die of the brutal infection than those who did not receive the drug in a Henry Ford Health System study of 2,541 people. It comes … Read more
The World Health Organization (WHO) will end the hydroxychloroquine arm of its SOLIDARITY coronavirus treatment trial once and for all, the agency announced on Wednesday. Officials for the international consortium said their decision was based on evidence from the multinational SOLIDARITY trial itself, a review of other studies on the drug, and the decision of … Read more
US researchers are still testing whether hydroxychloroquine can prevent coronavirus despite study that found taking it after exposure does not block the infection Duke University’s HERO trial aims to test whether hydroxychloroquine given before coronavirus exposure can prevent infection The study, intended to conclude in July, was planned to include 15,000 health care workers. Only … Read more
Hydroxychloroquine does NOT treat Covid-19: Biggest study into the Donald Trump-backed anti-malaria drug is ended with ‘immediate effect’ after researchers found it made no difference Oxford University scientists pulled the drug from the RECOVERY trial today Results showed it had no benefit on NHS patients hospitalised with the virus Scientists running the trial has urged … Read more
A ‘scandalous’ and now retracted medical study which warned against using a drug championed by Donald Trump has flared accusations of political-point scoring. The paper’s claim that hydroxychloroquine increases the risk of death in Covid-19 patients has been used by rivals as a stick to beat the US President, who has himself been taking the drug … Read more
The authors of a momentous study that claimed that hydroxychloroquine raised the risks of death for coronavirus patients treated the controversial malaria drug have retracted their research. The retraction was published in the Lancet on Thursday, and comes just two days after the medical journal posted an ‘expression of concern.’ Along with the publication, more … Read more