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Hospitals in Sweden have stopped using the malaria drug chloroquine on coronavirus patients after reports it was causing blinding headaches and vision loss. Doctors in the Vastra Gotaland region, 200miles west of Stockholm, are no longer administering the medication, touted as a ‘miracle drug’ by Donald Trump. A number of patients at hospitals in the county reported suffering … Read more
Coronavirus patients from around the world are pleading to join studies of an experimental US antiviral drug that could help fight off the potentially deadly disease. Interest has been so great that the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) is expanding its study of remdesvir, which has nearly reached its initial goal of 440 patients. … Read more
The medical experts spearheading Britain’s fight against coronavirus have issued a plea for more more infected patients to take part in three major clinical drug trials. NHS England medical director Professor Stephen Powis and the UK’s chief medical officers penned an open letter to doctors urging them to enroll more volunteers. There are three main … Read more
A new COVID-19 vaccine that fires proteins in the body that destroy the virus within two weeks is just a few months from human trials. The ‘highly scalable’ vaccine is the first peer-reviewed antidote to the coronavirus that currently has much of the world in lockdown or isolation. Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh say … Read more
A Japanese drug company has begun the final stages of human trials for its flu therapeutic for treating coronavirus, it announced Tuesday. Fujifilm’s Toyama Chemical branch makes a drug called Avigan, which is approved in Japan for stopping the flu virus from replicating in the body. Researchers with the company think it may well have … Read more
Search for coronavirus cure becomes a global competition with more than 20 clinical trials in Britain, the rest of Europe, China and the US Development for a cure normally takes up to five years before being released US Biotech company Moderna has already started tests on humans Another US firm Inovio hopes to produce one … Read more
Trials begin on British coronavirus vaccine with humans and animals undergoing testing at Government’s secret science base Porton Down Trials for a British vaccine against the coronavirus to start at Porton Down base Scientists will test the Oxford drug on animals next week, then humans in April Experts have cautioned that a Covid-19 vaccine is … Read more
A malaria drug which could treat seriously ill coronavirus patients is already in short supply in the UK after US President Donald Trump revealed American hospitals would double down on using it. An NHS pharmacist warned MailOnline there are already shortages of the drug hydroxychloroquine, which is used to prevent malaria and treat lupus or rheumatoid … Read more
A malaria drug which could treat seriously ill coronavirus patients is already in short supply in the UK after US President Donald Trump revealed American hospitals would double down on using it. An NHS pharmacist warned MailOnline there are already shortages of the drug hydroxychloroquine, which is used to prevent malaria and treat lupus or … Read more
Criminal trials likely to run longer than three days will be postponed to prevent coronavirus contamination in courtrooms. Lord Chief Justice Lord Burnett – the most senior judge in England and Wales – has decided no fresh case should start in any Crown Court unless it is expected to last fewer than three days. As … Read more