Drugs/Treatment

Articles/Commentaries

• Nasal irrigation may reduce COVID-19 severity by HealthDay News/ UPI

• WHO backs Roche, Sanofi drugs for COVID-19 after research ups and downs by Ben Fidle BioPharmDive

• Roche partner sees promise for anti-COVID 19 pill in early study by Kristin Jensen BioPharmaDive

• U.S. approves Roche drug for emergency use against severe COVID-19 by Reuters

• Could a Nasal Spray of Designer Antibodies Help to Beat COVID-19? by Dr. Francis Collins NIH

• SK, Vir build case for COVID-19 antibody drug with new study data by Ned Pagliarulo BioPharmaDive

• Regeneron antibody cuts risk of COVID-19 death in UK study by Kristin Jensen BioPharmaDive

• Fauci: US to spend $3.2B for antiviral pills for COVID-19 by Zeke Miller and Matthew Perrone The Associated Press

• How is a COVID-19 patient cured? by Ray Schilling Quora

• Merck’s Little Brown Pill Could Transform the Fight Against Covid by Symthia Koons and Riley Grifen Bloomberg Business

• How Doctors Are Using Artificial Intelligence to Battle Covid-19 by Jim Morrison Smithsonian Magazine

• Controversial Stem Cell Therapy Has Helped Repair Injured Spinal Cords in 13 Patients by Peter Dockril ScienceAlert

• One company’s quest for an antibody drug to fight COVID-19 by Marilynn Marchionine Associated Press

• WHO advises doctors not to use Gilead’s Remdesivir for Covid-19 treatment by Bloomberg

• FDA Approves First Treatment for COVID-19 by FDA

• ‘A very, very bad look’ for remdesivir by Jon Cohen and  Kai Kupferschmidt Science  06 Nov 2020:

• Hydroxychloroquine: A Morality Tale. A startling investigation into how a cheap, well-known drug became a political football in the midst of a pandemic by Norman Doidge  Tablet

• What Hasidic Communities Can Teach Us About Fighting the Coronavirus by Ely Reiter Tablet

• Covid Doctors Find a Turning Point in Life-Threatening Cases thits by Jason Gale Bloom berg

• Dozens of Hospitals Poised to Defy FDA on Plasma Therapy for COVID-19 Patients by Los Angeles Times

• COVID-19 measures could disrupt rare polio-like disease by Mike Stobbe  Associated Press

• Study: 'Antibody Cocktail' Blocks Coronavirus From Taking Hold by Brian Trusdell Newsmax

• Dr. Anthony Fauci starting to see ‘insidious’ rise in rate of positive coronavirus cases in some states by Berkeley Lovelace Jr. CNBC

• Study: 'Antibody Cocktail' Blocks Coronavirus From Taking Hold by Brian Trusdell Newsmax

• Video of Doctors Touting COVID-19 Drug Removed From Twitter by The Tablet

• Why Do Asymptomatic COVID-19 Cases Even Happen? by Sarah Elizabeth Richards National Geographic 

• WHO discontinues hydroxychloroquine and lopinavir/ritonavir treatment arms for COVID-19 by World Health Organization

• Gilead Announces Long-Awaited Price for Covid-19 Drug Remdesivir bySTAT

• Coronavirus: Dexamethasone proves first life-saving drug by Michelle Roberts, BBC News

• Study finds Hydroxychloroquine no better than placebo by Chris Rutkowski University of Manitoba

• Despite the Hype, Gilead’s Remdesivir Will Do Nothing to End the Coronavirus Pandemic by Sharon Lerner The Intercept

• Nationwide Rationing of Remdesivir Puts Doctors in the Middle of an Ethical Dilemma by Current News Staff NET

• Covid-19, Cardiovascular Disease, and Drug Therapy by M.R. Mehra and Others New EnglandJournal of Medicine

• Bioethicist calls out unproven and unlicensed 'stem cell treatments' for COVID-19 by CellPress American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

• Some Kenyan Catholic bishops urge caution on COVID-19 clinical trials by Fredrick Nzwili Catholic News Service/Angelus

• Trump Fires Inspector General Ahead of Damning Whistleblower Complaint About Bogus Coronavirus Cures by Sharon LernerThe Intercept

• Critical study of Gilead’s Covid-19 drug shows patients are responding to treatment, NIH says by Mathew Herper and Adam Feurerstein  Stat

• What Other Coronaviruses Tell Us About SARS-CoV-2? by James O’Brien  Quanta Magazine

• 'A drug can block this virus': Fauci hails Covid-19 treatment breakthrough by Sarah Owermohle Politico

• Top vaccine expert says he was fired for resisting Trump on hydroxychloroquin by David SmithThe Guardian

• Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update: FDA Authorizes First Test for Patient At-Home Sample Collection by FDA

• Report: Covid-19 patients recovering quickly after getting experimental drug remdesivir by Maggie Fox CNN

• More deaths, no benefit from malaria drug in VA virus study by Associated Press/ Politico

• Cost-effectiveness of rivaroxaban plus aspirin (dual pathway inhibition) for prevention of ischaemic events in patients with cardiovascular disease: on top optimisation of secondary prevention medication in the context of COVID-19 pandemia by Bernhard Rauch European Journal of Preventive Cardiology

• Compassionate Use of Remdesivir for Patients with Severe Covid-19 by Jonathan Grein, M.D.and OthersTheNew EnglandJournal of Medicine

• Vatican congregation to send ventilators to Syria and Holy Land by CNA Daily News/The Catholic World Report

• Pope prays for those caring for disabled patients amid pandemic by CNA Daily News/The Catholic World Report

• Ask the Doctor: Is the Drug Remdesivir the Answer to Treating COVID-19? by Wandy Ortiz Currents News Staff New Evangelization Television (NET)

• Early peek at data on Gilead coronavirus drug suggests patients are responding to treatment by Adam Deuerstein and Matthew Herper Stat

• FDA issues emergency authorization of anti-malaria drug for coronavirus care by  Dan Diamond Politico

• Catholic aid worker calls on leaders to be ‘factual, accurate’ after chloroquine overdose in Nigeria by Crux Staff Crux

• Priest-Microbiologist on COVID-19: Possible Treatment & Metaphysics by Fr. Matthew P. Schneider LC Patheos

• Manage Anxiety & Stress by Centers for Disease Prevention and Control

• Facing the fear: How Covid-19 and H.I.V./AIDS responses compare by Michael J. O’Loughlin America

• Coronavirus new drug may work, says The Wall Street Journal by Niall O'Dowd The Wall Street Journal/IrishCentral

• How Big Pharma Will Profit From the Coronavirus by Sharon Lerner The Intercept

• Anxious about the global pandemic? Advice from a Catholic psychologist by CNA Daily News/The Catholic World Report

• Patient receiving “precautionary” treatment for coronavirus at Belfast hospital by IrishCentral Staff IrishCentral

• Best Practices Amidst Coronavirus Concerns by Wagenmaker & Oberly

• The fight against coronavirus faces another threat: declining faith in medicine by Ryan Burge America

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