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Covid-19 treatment: Gilead Sciences urged to study drug that showed promise with cats | Coronavirus outbreak 0
- BUSINESS
- August 4, 2020
Activists are calling on the pharmaceutical firm Gilead Sciences to study a drug for the treatment of Covid-19 that showed promise in curing cats of a coronavirus. The drug, called GS-441524, is chemically related to remdesivir, an antiviral also made by Gilead, and one of the only treatments to successfully shorten the duration of Covid-19
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Hydroxychloroquine: FDA revokes emergency use of malaria drug Trump promoted as coronavirus cure 0
- BUSINESS
- June 15, 2020
The US Food and Drug Administration has revoked emergency use authorisations for anti-malaria drugs which President Donald Trump claimed without evidence could be used to treat Covid-19 as new research reveals potentially deadly side effects. Drugs like hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine flew off the shelves in recent months after they were touted by the US president
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First drug to treat Covid-19 approved in UK 0
- BUSINESS
- May 26, 2020
The first drug to treat Covid-19 has been approved in the UK, the Department of Health has said. Early data from clinical trials around the world showed remdesivir could shorten the recovery time of Covid-19 patients by four days. The Government said that the allocation of the drugs would be determined by where they would
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Rider crushed after ‘off-road bikers spooked her horse’ – as police arrest two men for drug driving 0
- BUSINESS
- May 26, 2020
Two men have been arrested for drug driving after a British event rider was crushed under her horse and suffered life-changing injuries. Anna Tomson, 41, was put in an induced coma and on a ventilator in hospital after she was was thrown from her saddle on May 17. Her horse Berry, who weighs one-ton, was
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This machine-learning upstart trained software to snare online drug dealers. Now it’s going after fake coronavirus test equipment peddlers 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- April 12, 2020
Machine-learning software to snare scammers hawking fake COVID-19 test kits on social media is being built by a tiny startup funded by the US National Institutes of Health. S-3 Research, founded by Timothy Mackey, an associate professor at the school of health sciences at the University of California, San Diego, was focused on sniffing out
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Life Extending Cancer Drug will not be made Available to all Patients in Scotland 0
- HEALTH
- December 11, 2019
Sarcoma UK is disappointed to see that life extending cancer drug trabectedin (Yondelis) will not be made available routinely on the NHS to sarcoma patients in Scotland. Trabectedin, a chemotherapy drug which has been routinely available in the rest of the UK for over a decade, has been denied approval for regular use in Scotland
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