A World Health Organization (WHO) panel has given the green light to two new drugs to treat COVID-19. US-based Eli Lilly’s baricitinib (Olumiant), a Janus kinase inhibitor, and GlaxoSmithKline a ...

The World Health Organization has recommended two new drugs for COVID-19, providing yet more options for treating the disease. The extent to which these medicines will save lives depends on how ...

The amount of virus was found to be almost fourfold lower in patients in the trial who took metformin vs. non-medicating placebo pills.

Pfizer has a promising drug in development that targets the novel coronavirus’s ability to replicate. The new drug could help save patients experiencing mild-to-moderate COVID-19 cases ...

The new oral antiviral drug completely blocked virus transmission ... Incredibly, the medicine was able to cure infections from the novel coronavirus after only five days. This was only a ...

New evidence from the World Health Organization (WHO) has shown that the extensive use of antibiotics during the coronavirus ...

Tedros has strongly refuted this argument, saying the accord would help countries better guard against outbreaks. The only ...

The new "FLiRT" COVID-19 variants, including the now dominant KP.2 strain, are circulating in the US. Experts discuss ...

Remember hydroxychloroquine, the drug that some were pushing as a possible ... for test positivity and ranked fourth-highest for new Covid-19 cases per capita.” She also wrote that “asked ...

Scientist defends collaboration with Wuhan lab as yielding 'direct public health benefits' for the US, with virus work saving ...

Clyde “Peter” Hall, 84, was sentenced to a minimum of five years in prison Monday by Manhattan Federal Judge Mary Kay ...

Countries are due to finalize negotiations on the accord on May 10, with a view to adopting it at the WHO's annual meeting ...