When is remdesivir effective for COVID-19?
Remdesivir was one of the first medications approved for treatment of COVID-19. Clinical studies evaluated its effectiveness, but did not generate conclusive results. A new analysis of the […]
Remdesivir was one of the first medications approved for treatment of COVID-19. Clinical studies evaluated its effectiveness, but did not generate conclusive results. A new analysis of the […]
Although the public had been alerted that this winter could be a potentially bad flu season, barely half of Americans said in January that they had received a […]
For many children, winter season comes with regular exposure to circulating viruses at school or daycare. And a warm forehead is often one of the first clear signs […]
When Srikanth Singamaneni and Guy Genin, both professors of mechanical engineering and materials science at the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, established a new collaboration with […]
Two doses of mRNA covid-19 vaccine during pregnancy show significant efficacy against delta and omicron infection in infants under six-months old. They also reduce hospital admission for covid-19 […]
Five medical organizations are recommending updated best practices for hand hygiene to protect patients and staff in healthcare settings. The recommendations emphasize the importance of healthy skin and […]
The findings, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) today, may mean TB can be cured with shorter treatments. TB typically takes months to treat with multiple […]
Professor Colleen Aldous is a research professor at in the School of Clinical Medicine at the University of Kwazulu-Natal in South Africa. She recently described the SAIVE trial […]
Colleen Aldous, Professor for Medical Research, University of KwaZulu-Natal explains how the evidence supporting the use of ivermectin for covid-19 came together to tell a compelling story. In […]
When assessing repurposed drugs in a pandemic situation, the totality of evidence should be considered rather than RCTs alone; had this been done the pandemic could have been […]
The TOGETHER trial was widely reported as showing that ivermectin was not effective in covid-19, but a straightforward analysis of the results reveals a 59 per cent reduction […]
The best time to administer ivermectin is at the beginning of a covid-19 infection so that virus is killed and disease progression averted, according to Colleen Aldous, Professor […]
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