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SOURCE: Detroit Metro Times After being accused of “banning” the use of a potential coronavirus drug, Michigan is now leading the nation’s largest study on whether hydroxychloroquine can be used to treat COVID-19. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer was asked about the new study of the drug, announced by Henry Ford Health System on Thursday, during a coronavirus town […]
Promising Hyroxychloroquine results coming out of the US. Watch this interview from Dr Oz with Dr Jeff Colyer.
Source: Katu PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) – A local veteran is celebrating two big milestones this week. Not only is he turning 104, but he’s also celebrating his recovery from coronavirus. William Lapschies lives at the Edward C. Allworth Oregon Veterans’ Home in Lebanon. He was one of at least 15 residents to tested positive for the […]
An international poll of thousands of doctors rated the Trump-touted anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine the best treatment for the novel coronavirus. Of the 2,171 physicians surveyed, 37 percent rated hydroxychloroquine the “most effective therapy” for combating the potentially deadly illness, according to the results released Thursday. The survey, conducted by the global health care polling company Sermo, also found that […]
SOURCE: Metro Times, FDA Gov. Gretchen Whitmer drew fire from some on the right after the Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA) sent a letter last week threatening “administrative action” against doctors who prescribed two experimental drugs that could potentially help coronavirus patients. The Whitmer administration has since removed the language threatening doctors […]
According to the largest pharmacists association in the USA, pharmacists overwhelmingly disagree with recent actions by some states to limit the dispensing of a well-established malaria drug as a possible treatment for COVID-19 disease. COVID-19 is caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, which was initially detected in China during 2019. According to a new survey distributed […]
Twitter removed a tweet from Fox New host Laura Ingraham that suggested hospitals using hydroxychloroquine as treatment for the Wuhan coronavirus are showing promising results, despite the FDA’s approval of the drug for emergency use. “Lenox Hill in New York among many hospitals already using hydroxychloroquine with very promising results. One patient was described as ‘Lazarus’ who […]
Source: Fox 2 Detroit A Macomb County patient was recently given a drug typically used for malaria that is showing positive results for beating COVID-19. Jim Santilli said it helped him and he believes it could help others, too. “I was struggling to breathe. I felt like I was slowly drowning and I was sitting […]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the use of two anti-malaria drugs to treat patients infected by the new coronavirus. On Sunday, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said in a statement that chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine could be prescribed to teens and adults with COVID-19 “as appropriate, when a clinical trial is not available or […]
ZURICH (Reuters) – Novartis Chief Executive Vas Narasimhan said his Sandoz generics unit’s malaria, lupus and arthritis drug hydroxychloroquine is the company’s biggest hope against the coronavirus, Swiss newspaper SonntagsZeitung reported on Sunday. Novartis has pledged to donate 130 million doses and is supporting clinical trials needed before the medicine, which U.S. President Donald Trump […]
Hydroxy-chloroquine approved for asymptomatic household contacts of laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 patients: Amid rising coronavirus cases in India, the national task force for COVID-19 constituted by the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) has recommended hydroxychloroquine as a preventive medication for high-risk populations. According to this advisory distributed from New Delhi on March 22, 2020, hydroxy-chloroquine should […]
SOURCE: Jornal da Cultura Watch: In an interview dated March 28, Brazilian virologist Professor Paolo Zanotto from the University of Sao Paulo praised the US President’s decision on hydroxychloroquine. In the interview the researcher spoke about the fantastic results that the use of that drug has in Brazil, and the early use protocols that are […]
The Russian Health Ministry has provided Version 4 (27/03/2020) interim recommendations for the treatment of COVID-19, which includes their intended dosage and timeline of use. NOTE* This excerpt has been translated. Please see the official recommendation in Russian here: TREATMENT OF CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONMonitoring is required as part of medical care the patient’s condition to detect […]
FDA issued emergency authorization of Hydroxychloroquine treatment for COVID-19 patients in the USA. A global survey found that anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine was the most highly-rated treatment against the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). This new survey completed by Sermo on March 27, 2020, reported 6,227 physicians in 30 countries found that 37 percent of those treating […]
On March 19, we published a story about a trial study conducted by French researchers which showed a combination of Hydroxychloroquine (brand name Plaquenil) and Azithromycin to be effective in the treatment of COVID-19 patients. The study, which was led by renowned Didier Raoult M.D/Ph.D in Marseille, France, showed that 100% of patients that received a combination of the two […]
Source: https://news.yahoo.com/morocco-roll-antimalarials-against-coronavirus Rabat (AFP) – Morocco has authorised hospitals to use antimalarial drugs in treating the new coronavirus, according to a document seen by AFP, as scientists urge caution over encouraging results from small trials. The Moroccan health ministry on Monday gave hospitals and regional health directors the green light to start using hydroxychloroquine and […]
President of the Supreme Council of Health (SCH) Lt. General Dr. Shaikh Mohammed bin Abdullah Al Khalifa, the Head of the National Taskforce to Combat Coronavirus (COVID-19), has affirmed that the therapeutic protocol of the Kingdom of Bahrain which uses Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) medication in treating COVID-19-infected cases has proved its effectiveness. He said the kingdom is one […]
Zhaowei Chen, from the Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University in China, and colleagues examined the efficacy of HCQ in treatment of COVID-19. Sixty-two patients with COVID-19 diagnosed and admitted from Feb. 4 to Feb. 28, 2020, were randomly assigned to receive an additional five-day HCQ treatment or standard treatment (control). “Despite our small number of cases, the […]
A drug combo already used against HIV. A malaria treatment first tested during World War II. A new antiviral whose promise against Ebola fizzled last year. Could any of these drugs hold the key to saving coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients from serious harm or death? On Friday, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced a […]
As leading doctors warn of widespread infection in Jordan, hospitals can now use malaria drug for serious conditions. Jordan’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorised physicians to use hydroxychloroquine along with an antiviral medicine as a treatment for COVID-19 in patients in an advanced stage of the disease. A recent French study has shown hydroxychloroquine, […]
Source: MSN Some WWLTV viewers have heard that some treatments in other countries may be helping people with COVID-19. WWLTV’s medical reporter Meg Farris wanted to see if those treatments were available to hospital patients in the New Orleans area. After President Trump’s announcement Thursday about promising treatments for COVID-19 we wanted to see what […]
MANALAPAN, NJ — Margaret Novins, 53, is currently resting at her Manalapan home after she survived having covid-19/coronavirus. Novins was discharged Wednesday from CentraState Medical Center in Freehold, where she has been hospitalized for the past ten days. CentraState is the same hospital where four members of one single family, the Fuscos, died of the virus […]
In order to ensure the continuity of supply to patients in the UK, a list of medicines that cannot be parallel exported was published on: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/medicinesthat-cannot-be-parallel-exported-from-the-uk. On the 14/03/2020, the UK Department of Health and Social Care added Hydroxychloroquine to the list. A medicine will only be included on this list if the following criteria […]
Kwon Jun-wook, deputy head of the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said Thursday at a regular press briefing the recommendations come from multiple groups, and that the government is ready to apply the recommendations to patients “where necessary,” The Korean Society of Infectious Diseases, Korean Society for Antimicrobial Therapy, Korean Society of Pediatric […]
At the WHO’s media briefing on COVID-19, the Director-General’s opening remarks included: “WHO has been assessing this outbreak around the clock and we are deeply concerned both by the alarming levels of spread and severity, and by the alarming levels of inaction. We have therefore made the assessment that COVID-19 can be characterized as a […]
A patient with the novel coronavirus disease COVID-19 saw symptoms improve after being treated with Sanofi’s immune modulator Plaquenil (hydroxychloroquine sulfate), according to the latest report posted on the website of the Japanese Association for Infectious Diseases. The report posted on March 10 details the clinical course followed by a 69-year old man who was given […]
An initial Chinese study, published in Clinical Infectious Diseases: The Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) first broke out in Wuhan (China) and subsequently spread worldwide. Chloroquine has been sporadically used in treating SARS-CoV-2 infection. Hydroxychloroquine shares the same mechanism of action as chloroquine, but its more tolerable safety profile makes it the preferred […]
Doctors of subordinate Moscow medical institutions are invited to participate in the study of the drug for the prevention of COVID-19. A medicine called hydroxychloroquine is used for rheumatoid arthritis and malaria. Moscow doctors are invited to take part in the study of hydroxychloroquine for the prevention of coronavirus on the site doc-covid.ru. It was created on […]
French research team Colson, Rolain, Raoult propose the following in the International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents: In the current episode of novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) emergence [2], we find a spectacular example of possible repositioning of drugs, particularly chloroquine. We had 20 years ago proposed to systematically test chloroquine in viral infections because it had been shown […]
Source: YouTube The government’s guidelines recommend Kaletra, an anti-retroviral medication used to treat HIV for a duration of 7 to 10 days. Chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine, a medication used to prevent and treat Malaria can be used as an alternative.