May 12, 2020

By Gleb Stolyarov and Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday he had tested positive for t...

May 12, 2020

By Carl O'Donnell (Reuters) - Health policy experts say the United States must dramatically increase the availability of tests for the coronavirus if it is to safely reope...

May 12, 2020

MOUNT PROSPECT, Ill — May 12, 2020 — The Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) and Mayo Clinic have partnered to launch the first global COVID-19 registry that tracks ICU and hospital care patt...

May 12, 2020

These and other updates from the U.S. and around the world Lynne Peterson is the Senior Writer for Trends-in-Medicine.This is Part 1 of a 2-part Covid-19 update, focusing on all things Covid-19.Be ca...

May 12, 2020

Analysis finds more than 5,000 excess NYC deaths in addition to confirmed, probable fatalities As Covid-19 sweeps across the U.S., New York City has been hit particularly hard, with nearly 20,000 con...

May 12, 2020

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand on Tuesday reported two new coronavirus cases and no new deaths, bringing the total to 3,017 cases and 56 deaths since the outbreak started in January. ...

May 11, 2020

By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - Pregnant women are no more likely to become severely ill with COVID-19 than other women, according to a preliminary study in Britain, bu...

May 11, 2020

BEIJING (Reuters) - Wuhan reported its first cluster of coronavirus infections since a lockdown on the city, the epicentre of the outbreak in China, was lifted a month ago, stoking conc...

May 11, 2020

Source: Practice recommendations for lung cancer radiotherapy during COVID-19 pandemic: An ESTRO-ASTRO Consensus Statement View or Download Full Statement (PDF)   These are your patients. ...

May 11, 2020

By William Schomberg LONDON (Reuters) - Men in the lowest-skilled jobs have the highest death rates involving COVID-19 among working-age people, according to data for Engl...

May 11, 2020

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration has no plans to keep President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence apart, a person familiar with the matter said on Sunday, as con...

May 11, 2020

Data released on May 8 by the UK’s Intensive Care National Audit & Research Centre (ICNARC) shows the mortality rate for 4287 COVID 19 patients who received advanced respiratory support was 58.8...

May 11, 2020

The test will allow results within minutes but the FDA warned of false negative risk WASHINGTON — The FDA announced that it has granted an emergency use authorization (EUS) for an antigen test ...

May 11, 2020

Shorter viral shedding, symptom duration reported in patients treated early with mild to moderate disease A triple antiviral cocktail of interferon beta-1b, lopinavir-ritonavir, and ribavirin signifi...

May 11, 2020

Death of 5-year-old boy in NY being investigated as Covid-related A rare multisystem inflammatory syndrome believed to be linked to coronavirus had been reported in 73 hospitalized children in and ar...

May 11, 2020

EUA builds on early approval for home nose swab test WASHINGTON — The FDA has issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) for a home Covid-19 saliva test to Rutgers Clinical Genomic Laboratory....

May 10, 2020

By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - Men's blood has higher levels than women's of a key enzyme used by the new coronavirus to infect cells, the results of a big European st...

May 10, 2020

By Lovasoa Rabary ANTANANARIVO (Reuters) - Madagascar is putting its self-proclaimed, plant-based "cure" for COVID-19 on sale and several countries in Africa have already ...

May 10, 2020

By Kanishka Singh, Chris Prentice and Mike Stone (Reuters) - Three senior officials guiding the U.S. response to the coronavirus pandemic were in self-quarantine on Saturd...

May 08, 2020

By Emma Rumney SOWETO, South Africa (Reuters) - Maaki Modimola sways along to a hymn in the yard of her dead sister's home in the South African township of Soweto, a bottl...