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Genetic counselors push for permission to hold virtual visits with seniors covered by Medicare
Encouraged by new rules from the Trump administration, doctors and nurses across the country have…
Opinion: A CDC veteran asks: Why is the agency ‘sitting on the sidelines’ in the fight against Covid-19?
The public health challenge of our generation is right in front of us. SARS-CoV-2 appears…
Opinion: If Covid-19 will peak in June, teaching hospitals should consider delaying the start of new medical residents
Some projections place the peak of Covid-19 infections in the U.S. between May and June….
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Opinion: Covid-19 is scary. A CRISPR-made pandemic could be scarier
Uncertainty breeds panic. As Covid-19 spreads across the planet, stock markets have crashed in response…
What it’s like to go into the lab at a biopharma company during the coronavirus pandemic
Like grocery store clerks and Amazon delivery drivers, they’re among the essential workers of the…
Covid-19’s resurgence in Hong Kong holds a lesson: Defeating it demands persistence
As a mysterious virus raced through Wuhan, China, 570 miles to the north, residents in…
What we’ve learned about the coronavirus — and what we still need to know
As we approach the three-month mark since we all learned about a new virus triggering…
A Canadian bill would make it easier to issue compulsory licenses for Covid-19 products
In response to the pandemic, Canadian lawmakers have passed a bill that would speed the…
Under intense criticism, Gilead forsakes monopoly status for its experimental Covid-19 drug
In an unexpected move, Gilead Sciences (GILD) has asked the Food and Drug Administration to…
When can we let up? Health experts craft strategies to safely relax coronavirus lockdowns
With countries from Italy to the U.S. having waited too long to combat the coronavirus,…
Opinion: Assisted living and Covid-19: the next Kirkland might not be a nursing home
With the national spotlight turned on nursing homes following the Covid-19 outbreak at the Life…
Vir Biotechnology reports early progress in antibody treatment for Covid-19
Vir Biotechnology, a San Francisco-based biotechnology firm, said Wednesday that laboratory testing showed two of…
India bans exports of drug touted by Trump as potential Covid-19 treatment
The Indian government has banned exports of hydroxychloroquine, the decades-old malaria drug that was touted…
Tech companies are crucial players in the coronavirus response. Are they contributing what’s most needed?
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Opinion: Protect older and vulnerable health care workers from Covid-19
Since the Covid-19 pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus emerged late in 2019, health care…
Opinion: In a pandemic, hospital staffers need to get better at hand-washing
After visiting Ellis Island in 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt noted the lack of hand-washing by…
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Hospitals turn to remote monitoring tools to free up beds for the sickest coronavirus patients
Desperate to free up beds for only the sickest Covid-19 patients, hospitals nationwide are weighing…
A sports medicine office morphs into a coronavirus clinic, braced for the onslaught
First in a series of reports from hospitals responding to the Covid-19 pandemic. The doctor…
Social distancing, politicized: Trump allies are urging an end to isolation, worrying public health experts
WASHINGTON — How and whether to prevent disease is suddenly a political question. And in…
Hospital orders for old malaria drugs have spiked amid coronavirus pandemic
As speculation mounted in recent weeks that a pair of old malaria drugs could combat…
A call to scientists idled by shuttered labs: Share your bench skills and resources to fight Covid-19
His lab shut down last week by coronavirus precautions like many others across the U.S.,…
WHO is asked to create a voluntary intellectual property pool to develop Covid-19 products
Seeking to widen access to medical products for combating Covid-19, the Costa Rican government has…
Startups touting at-home coronavirus tests suspend plans after FDA warning
In a rapid about-face, a handful of startups that had already rolled out at-home coronavirus…
‘We didn’t follow through’: The official who tallied ‘lessons learned’ from Ebola weighs in on the coronavirus response
Christopher Kirchhoff knows how to assess the U.S. government’s response to a public health crisis….
Opinion: We need smart coronavirus testing, not just more testing
Despite three weeks of assurances, most Americans who have symptoms of Covid-19 still can’t get…
Can location data from smartphones help slow the coronavirus? Facebook is giving academics a chance to try
It’s emerging as one of the more promising — and potentially controversial — ideas to…
Opinion: People with serious illness can teach us a lot about living with Covid-19
As the U.S. grapples with a potentially deadly pandemic, it can learn a lot from…
Desperate for Covid-19 answers, U.S. doctors turn to colleagues in China
Even as the Covid-19 outbreak has already overwhelmed some U.S. hospitals, in many cities anxious…
‘A long ways from everything’: In Montana, distance is shaping the coronavirus response
BUTTE, Mont. — The little town of Libby, a former mining hub of 2,700 that’s…
Doctors warn an inability to smell could be a symptom of Covid-19 — but caution the evidence is preliminary
Health care workers are calling attention to a potential new symptom of a novel coronavirus…
As coronavirus spreads, thousands of foreign doctors could be blocked from U.S. entry, group warns
The status of 7,000 foreign doctors who were chosen to do medical residencies in American…
Opinion: Antibiotic resistance: the hidden threat lurking behind Covid-19
The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic highlights the critical need for rapid development of vaccines and antiviral…
Ecuador becomes the latest country to eye compulsory licensing for Covid-19 products
As the novel coronavirus continues to spread, Ecuador has become the latest country in which…
Opinion: What Singapore can teach the U.S. about responding to Covid-19
Our country, Singapore, has managed to contain the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus within its…
As Covid-19 spreads, disruptions to clinical trial and drug development accelerate
The disruption of clinical trials due to the novel coronavirus pandemic is becoming an almost…
Opinion: The white scarf on the door: a life-saving lesson from the 1918 Spanish flu
In 1918, a white scarf tied to the door of my grandmother’s family’s apartment on…
Opinion: Covid-19 is reshaping the world of bioscience publishing
The Covid-19 pandemic is rapidly changing our lives in previously unimaginable ways and forcing us…
I asked eight chatbots whether I had Covid-19. The answers ranged from ‘low’ risk to ‘start home isolation’
U.S. hospitals, public health authorities, and digital health companies have quickly deployed online symptom checkers…
For people with underlying health conditions, the coronavirus presents ‘all the ingredients’ for danger
An infection from the coronavirus can be a formidable threat to anyone. But it is…
Why President Trump is at odds with his medical experts over using malaria drugs against Covid-19
One of the most wrenching questions in medicine has been playing out to garish effect…
Gilead suspends access to experimental Covid-19 drug due to ‘overwhelming demand’
Gilead Sciences has temporarily stopped granting patients access to remdesivir, its experimental drug against the…
As public hungers for coronavirus tests, FDA warns new at-home kits are ‘unauthorized’
As a wave of at-home tests for coronavirus are coming on the market, federal regulators…
New coronavirus test returns results in 45 minutes, but it may be limited to hospitals
A new diagnostic test for the novel coronavirus will return results in just 45 minutes,…
A plea from doctors in Italy: To avoid Covid-19 disaster, treat more patients at home
A dozen physicians at the epicenter of Italy’s Covid-19 outbreak issued a plea to the…
Opinion: I fought Ebola. Here’s my advice for health workers fighting Covid-19
In the summer of 2014, as I was preparing to fly to West Africa as…
AbbVie will allow generic copies of its HIV pill in Israel after the government approved a license
After the Israeli government approved licensing for a generic copy of the Kaletra HIV pill…
Trump says his belief in one potential coronavirus drug is ‘just a feeling’
WASHINGTON — President Trump on Friday admitted that his enthusiasm for an antimalarial drug unproven…
At-home tests for coronavirus are here. Should you take them?
With delays in testing hampering the country’s ability to accurately track the new coronavirus and…
Opinion: A new self-triage tool can help you decide if you need medical care for Covid-19
If you have a cough, fever, or shortness of breath, how can you tell if…