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Source: statnews The World Health Organization is resuming a clinical trial exploring whether the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine can effectively treat Covid-19, after pausing enrollment in the study to review safety concerns about the drug. The hydroxychloroquine investigation is just one arm of the agency’s Solidarity Trial, which is testing different therapies to determine which are beneficial […]
Source: Stateline Network Extra What President Trump called a potential “game-changer” in the battle against COVID-19-a safe, cheap, effective treatment, available NOW-is suddenly seen as a highly dangerous drug. Of the fake news and misinformation that has proliferated in this pandemic, the most harmful is the claim that hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) is a serious heart hazard. That […]
Source: Science the Wire If you’re following at all the search for COVID-19 treatments, and possibly even if not, you will have seen the flurry of media coverage for the observational study in The Lancet, ‘Hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine with or without a macrolide for treatment of COVID-19: a multinational registry analysis’. It made the news not least […]
Hydroxychloroquine alone is not the whole story. It needs to be combined with azithromycin and zinc.
Source: BBC Mundo Honduras had one of the highest coronavirus case fatality rates in Latin America. In April, one in 10 officially infected people did not survive. But in recent weeks the country managed to reduce that proportion to less than half. Over the Sula valley, which brings together large cities in the north and concentrates […]
Source: Hindustan Times The results of the study are based on a case control study for which participants were randomly drawn from the countrywide Covid-19 testing data portal maintained by ICMR. As many as 80% of the health care workers (HCWs) on six or more prophylactic doses of the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) were not […]
Source: Xinhuanet LIMA, May 31 (Xinhua) — Peru reported 8,805 new confirmed COVID-19 cases and 135 new deaths on Sunday, bringing the total caseload of infections to 164,476 and the death toll to 4,506. Currently, 8,882 COVID-19 patients are hospitalized, with 988 in intensive care units and on ventilators, the Health Ministry said. Despite WHO’s […]
Source: Preprints.org The challenge regarding COVID-19 is to prevent complications and fatal evolution. Azithromycin (AZM) and hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) have proven their antiviral effect in vitro. We aimed to assess the efficacy and safety of AZM alone or combined to HCQ, prescribed, at an early stage, in patients with Covid-19, in a primary care setting. Eighty-eight […]
Source: France Soir Surgisphere is the company responsible for collecting data from Professor Mehra’s study, which has received worldwide attention for the past 7 days. After our first interview with Mr Mehra who had left us skeptical about the form and content, we became interested in this business. And there some questions arise and surprises. The surgisphere company has: Several addresses that are […]
Source: Medicine Uncensored by James M Todaro, MD (Columbia MD, @JamesTodaroMD)May 29, 2020, (updated May 30, 2020) Misinformation is bad. Misinformation in medicine is worse. Misinformation from a prestigious medical journal is the worst. Herein is a detailed look at the controversial Lancet study that resulted in the World Health Organization ending worldwide clinical trials on hydroxychloroquine in order […]
Source: Brasil Sem Medo Study that rejects hydroxychloroquine use in Covid-19 patients is not science, but instrumentalization of science. The twilight of quinine A study published in the prestigious scientific journal The Lancet , on the 22nd, seemed to definitely change the direction of the public debate on the use of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine in the treatment […]
Source: Zeekannada New Delhi [India], May 29 (ANI): After the Union Health Ministry expressed reservations about the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) advisory to suspend hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) usage in treating COVID-19 patients, now, India’s nodal government agency ICMR (Indian Council of Medical Research) overseeing the country’s response to the coronavirus pandemic has also written to the […]
Source: The Guardian Australian researchers query origin of data used for Lancet study. Questions have been raised by Australian infectious disease researchers about a study published in the Lancet which prompted the World Health Organization to halt global trials of the drug hydroxychloroquine to treat Covid-19. The study published on Friday found Covid-19 patients who received the malaria drug […]
Source: El Pais The Medicines Agency considers that the conclusions of the study that alerted about the drug are not “solid enough”. The Spanish Agency for Medicines and Health Products (AEMPS) considers that the recent study published in The Lancet that warned about the risks of hydroxychloroquine against the coronavirus does not provide conclusions “sufficiently strong” to stop […]
Source: Argus Leader South Dakota’s study of an antimalarial drug’s impact on the coronavirus can’t be compared to other studies halted, a Sanford Health leader said. Other hydroxychloroquine clinical trials have involved different patients and dosages than South Dakota’s study, said Allison Suttle, chief medical officer at Sanford Health. Suttle said the study in South Dakota hasn’t […]
Source: RT360 The Spanish health watchdog has said it sees no reason to stop the use of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ). Several European nations, including France, Italy and Belgium, have decided to suspend prescription of the anti-malaria drug, which came to international prominence after the US President said the medicine could be used to tackle Covid-19 and […]
Source: RT Russia Russia’s Health Ministry announced it will not ban hydroxychloroquine. The drug has been suspended for use in treating Covid-19 in France, Italy, and Belgium. On Thursday, the Russian Health Ministry stated on its website that hydroxychloroquine’s effectiveness and safety in the treatment of coronavirus is continually being monitored, but the ministry is […]
Source: El Blog Despite some questioning of the benefits of hydroxychloroquine in patients with coronavirus, by some studies, the drug will continue to be used in that country, said the executive president of the Costa Rican Social Security Fund (CCSS), Román Macaya. The official defended the use that occurs in the country of the drug, […]
Source: Le Devoir Canada Following the publication of the results of a large study indicating that administration of chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine alone or in combination with azithromycin to patients with COVID-19 who were hospitalized provided no benefit in the treatment of COVID-19, and even increased the risk of cardiac arrhythmia and mortality, the World Health […]
Source: ABC News Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said Thursday that U.S. President Donald Trump is sending over 2 million tablets of the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine. Bolsonaro made the comment while speaking to a small group of supporters as well as members of the press outside the presidential palace in the capital Brasilia. “[Trump] is sending […]
Source: Global Research A few years ago the British medical journal, The Lancet, published a paper touting the safety of HCQ. But this was before HCQ with zinc was found effective if used earlier enough against Covid-19. Covid-19 turned HCQ’s effectiveness into a big problem for Big Pharma’s big profits. The solution was another study by medical […]
Source: Q Costa Rica News Used in the world for decades in the treatment of malaria, a month ago, the Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social (CCSS) decided to apply hydroxychloroquine to patients infected with the new coronavirus until a vaccine is available. Thi immunosuppressanta drug is produced in Costa Rica. The medical director of the […]
Source: L’Economiste.com Morocco will not change its treatment protocol.Morocco, which has generalized treatment with Chloroquine, does not agree with the conclusions of the study in the British review “The Lancet” or with the WHO decision concerning the “temporary” suspension of studies carried out with hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine. “Opinions differ. But, the main thing is that […]
Source: Reuters SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) – Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele said on Tuesday he takes hydroxychloroquine, an antimalarial drug that U.S. President Trump has promoted as a way to ward off the novel coronavirus. Bukele told reporters that El Salvador was not promoting it anymore as a treatment, following the recommendation of the World Health […]
Source: India.com New Delhi: Two days after the World Health Organisation (WHO) put a pause on clinical trials of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) for COVID-19, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) said that India will continue the use of the anti-malarial drug. “I’m sure WHO will take considered call in coming time. We should trust ICMR’s […]
Source: IB Times Algeria will continue to use the drug hydroxychloroquine against the novel coronavirus, a member of its scientific committee said, despite the World Health Organization suspending clinical trials of such treatments. “We’ve treated thousands of cases with this medicine, very successfully so far,” said Mohamed Bekkat, a member of the scientific committee on […]
Source: Within Nigeria The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) says it will continue hydroxychloroquine clinical trials for COVID-19 treatment despite the suspension of the drug test by the World Health Organisation (WHO). This was made known by NAFDAC Director-General, Mojisola Adeyeye, who stated that such will be concluded within four months. She […]
Source: Conexaopolitica Brazilian scientists and academics have written an open letter on the “science” of the coronavirus pandemic. The coordinator of the statement is Marcos Nogueira Eberlin. He is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences and holds a PhD in chemistry from the University of Campinas. After postdoctoral work at Purdue, he founded […]
Source: Recovery Trial Professor Peter Horby, Professor Martin LandrayRECOVERY trial Co-chairsNuffield Department of Public HealthOxford24th May 2020 Dear Peter and Martin RECOVERY trial DMC Chairman’s reportIn the light of the response by MHRA to my letter, I arranged an urgent re- review by the full committee of the safety and efficacy data that were available […]
Source: Independant Kampala, Uganda | The Ministry of Health says it has had good results using hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine in managing COVID-19 patients despite findings from a recent U.S. analysis of old cases that the drugs have no effect on treating the disease. Uganda has used the two drugs in combination with azithromycin to manage […]
Source: Mexico News Daily Outpatients will be given low to medium doses for a maximum of seven days. The federal Health Ministry will use the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine to treat 20,000 Covid-19 outpatients. The director of the National Institute of Medical Sciences and Nutrition told the newspaper Milenio that the health regulatory agency Cofepris has authorized the […]
Source: The Borneo Post KUCHING: Malaysia has been using hydroxychloroquine to treat individuals who have been infected with Covid-19, said Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah. He said hydroxychloroquine is an anti-inflammatory and once used, the doctor would have to monitor the patient closely. “Hydroxychloroquine is an anti-inflammatory. Hydroxychloroquine will reduce inflammation and we […]
Source: US News THOUSANDS OF BRITISH health care workers will participate in a global trial to test the efficacy of a drug that US President Trump recently disclosed he has been taking as a preventative measure against the coronavirus. The Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit said Thursday that 40,000 front-line workers and staff in Europe, […]
Source: Washington Times A forthcoming Australian scientific study concludes that the coronavirus causing the global pandemic contains unique properties suggesting it was manipulated in a Chinese laboratory and was not the result of a natural occurrence. Five scientists who conducted the study discovered an unusual ability of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, as the pathogen behind COVID-19 […]
It was on the front line, hand-to-hand combat with coronavirus, and thousands and thousands are seeing positive results from hydroxychloroquine.
Source: Willamette Week Oregon Department of Corrections infectious disease specialist Dr. Daniel Dewsnup recently requested the antimalarial drug to treat inmates afflicted with the coronavirus, department spokeswoman Jennifer Black said. The department purchased the drug “both for usual use as an anti-inflammatory drug in patients with rheumatologic disorders, and also a limited quantity for COVID-19 use,” Black […]
Source: The Hill Rep. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) revealed that he and his entire family are taking the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine “prophylactically” to ward off the coronavirus. Marshall, an obstetrician who is running in the state’s heated Republican primary for an open Senate seat, told The Wall Street Journal that he was “relieved” to hear President Trump has also decided to take […]
Source: The Guardian Photograph: Yuri Cortéz/AFP via Getty Images Hydroxychloroquine, the anti-malarial drug, is being bought in bulk by the UK in case it does turn out to be an effective Covid-19 treatment. Ministers are seeking 16m tablets in packets of up to 100 as part of a £35m contract put out to tender on […]
Source: Full Measure If you’ve watched the news lately, you might be under the impression that a medicine President Trump touted as a possible game changer against coronavirus— has been debunked and discredited. Two divergent views of the drug, hydroxychloroquine, have emerged: the negative one widely reported in the press and another side you’ve probably […]
Source: Nikkei Asian Review MUMBAI/NEW DELHI – India is spending around $16 million – half of it in Africa – on pharmaceuticals, test kits and other medical assistance for some 90 countries battling the COVID-19 pandemic. The South Asian nation has already sent consignments of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), paracetamol and other drugs to 25 African countries […]