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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: WSBTV Atlanta HENRY COUNTY, Ga. — A Henry County woman says a controversial treatment for COVID-19 helped her beat the virus. Kimberly Sims says she remembers doctors admitting her to Piedmont Henry Hospital. The next thing she remembers was 26 days later. “My sister said all of a sudden I stopped talking and then they […]
Source: The Western Journal President Donald Trump is leading by example. On the advice of his physicians, he has been taking hydroxychloroquine on a prophylactic basis to help protect him from contracting the coronavirus. That’s the wise and prudent thing to do. Of course, liberals were quick to attack and condemn his actions. Speaker of […]
Source: Indian Council of Medical Research 1. Background The Joint Monitoring Group under the Chairmanship of DGHS and including representatives from AIIMS, ICMR, NCDC, NDMA, WHO and experts drawn from Central Government hospitals reviewed the prophylactic use of Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) in the context of expanding it to healthcare and other front line workers deployed in […]
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 […]
Source: ABC7 NY Many medical experts have criticized President Donald Trump for ignoring guidance and prophylactically taking the drug hydroxychloroquine,” which he has long touted in the fight against the coronavirus. President Trump says some doctors have taken the drug on their own, and a local doctor supports that claim and says he’s not the […]
Source: FOX 2 – Detroit The FDA has warned against taking hydroxychloroquine, but President Trump says he’s taking it and isn’t concerned. Dr. William O’Neill, a world-renowned Henry Ford doctor, is leading one of the largest U.S. studies into the drug. He gives us a little more information. “The drug has been available for decades. Initially, it […]
Source: SagePub.com Convalescent blood products are promising potential therapies for COVID-19. Other antivirals such as chloroquine or HCQ, remdesivir, and immune modulators such as tocilizumab are the other potential therapies for COVID-19 that are being tested in clinical trials. The use of antiretrovirals, such as lopinavir/ritonavir, did not provide any benefit in a RCT. Steroids […]
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: KXAN KXAN spoke to an Austin-based doctor who says she plans to continue treating COVID-19 patients using the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine in combination with other supplements. Dr. Ann Shippy, who has practiced functional medicine for the past 15 years, says she has treated 10 patients and herself for COVID-19 using the drug without any negative impacts. […]
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: Action News Jax JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A single mother in Jacksonville said she was sick with the coronavirus for more than 40 days. Meghan Debbie believes she came in contact with another patient while at work. “I thought I was going to die,” Debbie said. “It completely overtook me.” For weeks, she said she had […]
Source: Real Clear Politics VA Secretary Robert Wilkie fact-checked a common misconception about the common anti-malarial drug Hydroxychloroquine after the president was asked about it by a reporter. VA Secretary Robert Wilkie said Tuesday that the Defense Department and the VA have been using the drug hydroxychloroquine for decades, and on any given day, the […]
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SOURCE: CNBC News President Donald Trump said Monday that he has been taking anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine for a couple of weeks to prevent coronavirus infection even though the media is reporting that it is not yet a proven treatment. “I happen to be taking it,” Trump said during a roundtable event at the White House. “A lot of good things […]
SOURCE: Covexit.com The esteemed professor Paolo Zanotto, from the University of Sao Paulo, has released a list of 50 scientific references supporting the use of hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19. Professor Paolo Zanotto studied virology at University of Oxford and is a Microbiology Professor at Universidade de São Paulo. He has published extensively, including in prestigious journals […]
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 […]
Source: MedRxiv Background: No consensus or evidence-based guideline currently exists for pharmacological therapy against Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID 19). While South Korea has been relatively successful in managing the pandemic, its management of confirmed cases and treatment outcomes have not been reported to date. Methods: A retrospective cohort study of the 358 laboratory-confirmed SARS CoV […]
Source: The White House His ExcellencyTHE WHITE HOUSEWASHINGTONMay 18, 2020 Dr. Tedros Adhanom GhebreyesusDirector-General of the World Health OrganizationGeneva, Switzerland Dear Dr. Tedros: On April 14, 2020, I suspended United States contributions to the World Health Organization pending an investigation by my Administration of the organization’s failed response to the COVID-19 outbreak. This review has […]
Source: NY1 NEW YORK – Researchers at NYU’s Grossman School of Medicine found patients given the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine along with zinc sulphate and the antibiotic azithromycin were 44 percent less likely to die from the coronavirus. “Certainly we have very limited options as far as what we have seen work for this infection so […]
Source: GeekWire One of the treatments for COVID-19 — a combination of the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin, an antibiotic — is the subject of a nationwide study with UW Medicine playing a role. The Phase 2b clinical trial, sponsored by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease at the National Institutes of Health, will involve 2,000 outpatients […]
Source: The Indian Express “I am 80, but I have defeated coronavirus. Don’t worry, you can also defeat the virus…,” said the octogenarian as he walked out of the civic-run Yeshwantrao Chavan Memorial Hospital on Saturday afternoon. Thanking the doctors for saving his life, the 80-year-old resident of Tadiwala Road in Pune city said, “One should […]
Source: The Highwire. An example of how HCQ can be very safe and is well used. Watch the interview with immunologist and molecular biologist Professor Cahill from Dublin, Ireland.
Source: The Texan News The Texas State Board of Pharmacy issued a new rule that no prescriptions for hydroxychloroquine could be dispensed without a diagnosis, then changed their tune. Dr. Ivette Lozano, who has been in medical practice for over 20 years, was shocked to learn in March that she would be required to share […]
Source: World Tribune Despite overwhelming positive results in treating coronavirus patients, a Texas doctor said the state’s pharmacy board is putting up “alarming” barriers which make it extremely difficult to prescribe hydroxychloroquine. In an interview on the Thursday broadcast of Fox News’s “The Ingraham Angle”, Dr. Ivette Lozano said the board asked her to reveal […]
Source: Springer Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a pandemic with no specific drugs and high fatality. The most urgent need is to find effective treatments. We sought to determine whether hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) application may reduce the death risk of critically ill COVID-19 patients. In this retrospective study, we included 550 critically ill COVID-19 patients who […]
Source: Renascenca The Director-General of Health stresses that national and international institutions continue to monitor the “evolution of the use of this medicine worldwide and are adjusting their recommendations accordingly.” The director-general of Health, Graça Freitas, says that in Portugal there is no record of adverse reactions to the drug hydroxychloroquine, which can be used […]
Source: Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News The lack of treatment options for COVID-19 patients, potential promise in repurposing drugs, and controversy surrounding the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine have created a storm of questions about the drug’s efficacy that the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) is ready to answer. To do that, the organization […]
Source: The East African The deal follows last week’s telephone conversation between Kenya’s Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary (CS) Raychelle Omamo and India’s External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar. “In keeping with excellent bilateral ties and as a special gesture, India has allowed one-time export of prohibited Hydroxychloroquine Sulphate USP 200 mg (379,000 tablets) to Kenya to […]
Source: PRNewswire The global hydroxychloroquine market size is expected to be worth around US$ 6 Bn by 2027 with CAGR of around 32%. The commercial market for hydroxychloroquin is witnessing growth owing to the rising demand for the medication as a possible cure of the COVID-19 pandemic disease. However, the growing incidence of autoimmune disorders, including rheumatoid arthritis and […]
Source: Bloomberg Scientists from the University of Oxford are starting a first-of-its-kind study to see whether available drugs can help keep older, more vulnerable people with mild cases of Covid-19 from becoming severely ill. More than 500 U.K. doctors’ offices are recruiting for the trial of drugs that are already approved for other purposes, such […]
Source: Fox News TAMPA, Fla. – Frontline healthcare workers in Tampa are participating in a clinical trial to see if a drug being used to treat COVID-19 can actually prevent the virus. It is part of a nationwide research program by HERO (Healthcare Worker Exposure Response and Outcomes) on hydroxychloroquine, an FDA-approved drug commonly used to treat malaria. “Does this hydroxychloroquine […]
Source: bisnow JLL’s head of New York investment sales, Bob Knakal, fell ill with COVID-19 five weeks ago and used hydroxychloroquine to treat his symptoms, he said on a Bisnow webinar Tuesday. “I had corona for 17 days, but fortunately it didn’t get into the lungs and after 12 days, the fever broke and I took […]
Source: MedRxiv Repurposed drugs that are immediately available and have a good safety profile constitute a first line of defence against new viral infections. Despite a limited antiviral activity against SARS-CoV-2, several drugs serve as candidates for application, not only in infected individuals but also as prophylaxis to prevent infection establishment. Here we use a […]