Early peek at data on Gilead coronavirus drug suggests patients are responding to treatment
A Chicago hospital treating severe Covid-19 patients with Gilead Sciences’ antiviral medicine remdesivir in a…
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Listen: Coronavirus disrupts D.C., how not to be boring on Zoom, and the trial of Elizabeth Holmes
What’s the proper distance to stand from Sen. Mitch McConnell? How many PowerPoint charts is…
Rapid coronavirus test, commonly used in U.S., may miss infections in some situations
A rapid test for the novel coronavirus that was unveiled by President Trump on the…
Opinion: Without training, N95 masks may not protect workers on the Covid-19 frontlines
A key strategy for protecting health care workers on the frontlines of fighting the highly…
European Union urges the World Health Assembly to pursue a voluntary pool for Covid-19 products
In a significant development, the European Union has proposed a draft resolution urging the World…
Scientists tap CRISPR’s search-and-detect skills to create a rapid Covid-19 test
It cuts genomes, edits DNA, and holds the potential to treat a vast range of…
Opinion: Poor countries have made extraordinary progress against epidemic disease. We need to learn from them
About two months ago, when Covid-19 was still a somewhat distant problem in the United…
Blood clots in severe Covid-19 patients leave clinicians with clues about the illness — but no proven treatments
Doctors treating the sickest Covid-19 patients have zeroed in on a new phenomenon: Some people…
Coronavirus pandemic threatens to take crushing toll on rural areas, data show
As the impact of the coronavirus crisis careens toward smaller towns and rural areas, a…
Covid-19 Preparedness: How ready is your county?
As Covid-19 spills beyond major metropolitan areas, federal, state, and local officials across the country…
Covid-19 testing issues could sink plans to re-open the country. Might CT scans help?
To safely relax the chokehold that policies to control Covid-19 have on the economy, most…
Simply speaking could transmit coronavirus, new study suggests
Speaking calmly and at a normal volume produces liquid droplets so small they can remain…
Coronavirus pandemic will delay the blockbuster trial of ex-Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes
It was supposed to be the blockbuster courtroom drama of summer 2020: former Theranos CEO…
WHO’s Tedros, expressing ‘regret’ over Trump move to cut funding, says his focus on is ‘saving lives’
The head of the World Health Organization on Wednesday expressed “regret” that President Trump intends…
As demand surges, half of prescriptions needed for Covid-19 patients on ventilators are going unfilled
As the pandemic continues to spread across the U.S., prescriptions for medicines needed for Covid-19…
Opinion: Mobilize the military to improve the response to Covid-19
As Covid-19 sweeps across the world, health care workers have become prime victims of it,…
CDC director distances himself from Trump’s WHO criticism, saying the agencies ‘continue to have’ strong relationship
Just hours after President Trump announced his intention to cut off U.S. funding for the…
Opinion: We’ll see more shortages of diagnostic tests if the FDA has its way
February was a frustrating month for my laboratory. We wanted to make tests to detect…
Opinion: Covid-19 opens unexpected rifts between health care workers
My pager wakes me at 4:00 a.m. It’s from Jill, a nurse on the medicine…
Fearing deportation, many immigrants at higher risk of Covid-19 are afraid to seek testing or care
LOS ANGELES — Trying to stop the spread of the novel coronavirus has proven extremely…
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5 burning questions about tech efforts to track Covid-19 cases
The pitch from technology companies goes something like this: We can tap phone data to…
Trump announces a formal freeze on WHO funding, pending an investigation
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump formally announced Tuesday that the United States will freeze funding…
Some social distancing may be needed into 2022 to keep coronavirus in check, new study says
A modeling study on the new coronavirus warns that intermittent periods of social distancing may…
Opinion: Decarceration can reduce Covid-19 spread. The surgeon general should make that call
The jail on New York’s Rikers Island has a coronavirus infection rate that’s seven times…
Sanofi and GlaxoSmithKline collaborate to speed up coronavirus vaccine development
The French drug giant Sanofi said Tuesday that it plans to use technology from GlaxoSmithKline…
Opinion: The coronavirus pandemic could transform our health care system — for the better
The Covid-19 pandemic has rapidly disrupted our everyday life. Cities and states are on lockdown…
How much of the coronavirus does it take to make you sick? The science, explained
Infectious respiratory diseases spread when a healthy person comes in contact with virus particles expelled…
Opinion: The tension between public health and patents in the era of Covid-19
The Covid-19 pandemic, devastating as it is, is producing some triumphs of collaborative research and…
Opinion: To accelerate innovation, the CDC should ease limits on which labs can handle the coronavirus
Not long after SARS-CoV-2 was first identified in December 2019 as the cause of an…
Why a decades-old TB vaccine is getting attention in the fight against Covid-19
In the desperate search for ammunition to fend off the Covid-19 pandemic, a decades-old tuberculosis…
With Covid-19 delaying routine care, chronic disease startups brace for a slew of complications
Clinicians at health tech startups who treat patients with chronic conditions are raising a looming…
Who gets the last ventilator? Facing the coronavirus, a hospital ponders the unthinkable
This is one in a series of reports from hospitals responding to the Covid-19 pandemic….
U.S. is ‘less safe’ from coronavirus when CDC goes quiet, former director says
The United States is “less safe” from the coronavirus when the Centers for Disease Control…
Brazilian lawmakers propose compulsory licensing for Covid-19 products
As concerns mount over access to Covid-19 medical products, Brazil has become the latest country…
Opinion: To restart the economy, employers need to lead the way on Covid-19 testing, vaccination
The precise, nationally coordinated campaigns of Covid-19 testing and contact isolation that helped South Korea…
Opinion: Professionalism drives health care workers to treat patients with Covid-19. We mustn’t jeopardize it
Why would a slight, 79-year-old physician-scientist stand up to a volatile, combative President Trump on…
Opinion: Faces of health care workers on the frontlines of the Covid-19 fight
Health care workers are responding to the onslaught of the Covid-19 pandemic with professionalism and…
Coronavirus pandemic fuels a boom in demand for virtual mental health care
With the coronavirus pandemic causing unprecedented levels of stress and grief, companies offering virtual mental…
Help wanted: Health agencies will need an army of coronavirus trackers
K.J. Seung is surprised to be hiring and training new workers in Boston. His public…
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Opinion: I’m studying in the U.S., my family is in Italy. Every day is filled with mutual, gut-wrenching worry
WASHINGTON — I was supposed to be home in Italy for my spring break. Instead, as…
As Covid-19 surges among San Francisco’s homeless, doctors face difficult choices
SAN FRANCISCO — As a doctor at San Francisco’s safety net hospital, Katie Brooks takes…
Opinion: With only ‘shaky data’ to go on, it’s tough to practice evidence-based medicine during the Covid-19 pandemic
Part of my job as an obstetrician is to keep up with the latest evidence…
Startups spar with FDA over what constitutes a home coronavirus test
Federal regulators and health tech startups are increasingly at odds over the permissibility of at-home…
Some drugs being tested as Covid-19 treatments could be very cheap to make
Some existing medicines that may be repurposed to fight Covid-19 could also be manufactured profitably…
Opinion: Covid-19 ‘immunity certificates’: practical and ethical conundrums
The media’s understandable focus is now on the number of people hospitalized with and dying…
A key ingredient that compound pharmacies need for hydroxychloroquine skyrockets in price
As global demand intensifies for an old malaria drug that some believe can combat Covid-19,…
Opinion: Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, it is time for biomedical research investments to pay off
The Covid-19 pandemic is the monumental public health challenge the medical community has been fearing…
Opinion: Searching for an effective Covid-19 treatment: promise and peril
In response to the most serious global health threat in a century, the world’s biomedical…
The coronavirus sneaks into cells through a key receptor. Could targeting it lead to a treatment?
Nearly 20 years ago, when a different coronavirus struck, Michael Farzan and his team figured…
Opinion: The challenges of giving birth in the time of Covid-19
There are about 300,000 births every month in the United States. That won’t change as…