If you have seen stories suggesting the use of ivermectin, a so-called “miracle cure” medication, for COVID-19—beware. While the drug can be prescribed in humans
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BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s Health Minister Marcelo Queiroga tested positive for COVID-19 hours after accompanying President Jair Bolsonaro to the United Nations General Assembly in
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Dealing the White House a stinging setback, a government advisory panel overwhelmingly rejected a plan Friday to give Pfizer COVID-19 booster shots across the board,
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In the early days of the pandemic, with commercial COVID tests in short supply, Rockefeller University’s Robert B. Darnell developed an in-house assay to identify
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) – About one in 10 children had symptoms that remained after recovering from COVID-19, though that number dropped by more than half as
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Physicians worldwide have been asking their COVID-19 patients to lie on their stomachs to improve breathing and blood oxygen levels,
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Remember when a COVID-19 diagnostic test meant waiting in your car for a nurse wearing head-to-toe PPE to shove a long swab down your throat
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(Reuters) – Hospitalized COVID-19 patients died less often if they received Eli Lilly and Co’s rheumatoid arthritis drug baricitinib along with the other treatments their
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During the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, as false health information spread on social media, the number of children and teens poisoned with hand
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(HealthDay)—There have now been more than 40 million cases of COVID-19 recorded among Americans, according to a database maintained by The New York Times. That’s
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