Data from individual patients in clinical trials should be made available by researchers, and then requested and reviewed, for meta-analyses of potential therapeutics for COVID-19, argue Kyle Sheldrick and colleagues in a Correspondence published in Nature Medicine. Using the example of research into the use of ivermectin to highlight the risks inherent in current approaches, […]
Dr. Siegel: Evidence points to Wuhan lab as origin of COVID-19 Fox News contributor discusses funding of the Wuhan Institute of Virology on ‘America Reports’ Chinese researchers directed the U.S. National Institutes of Health to delete gene sequences of early COVID-19 cases from a key scientific database, raising concerns that scientists studying the origin of the pandemic […]
Pharmaceutical giant Merck and an American laboratory reported promising results Saturday in trials of a drug administered orally to fight COVID-19, saying it helps reduce patients’ viral load. “At a time where there is unmet need for antiviral treatments against SARS-CoV-2, we are encouraged by these preliminary data,” said Wendy Painter, chief medical officer of […]
There is no comprehensive data on government public health spending and staffing in the U.S., and KHN and the Associated Press spent months gathering different datasets, each measuring a slightly different concept of “public health,” into a unique repository of public health data at the local, county and state levels. Now, we’re releasing our public […]
The pandemic continues to pose huge challenges to health services worldwide. Hospitals are in crisis as the pace of new COVID-19 cases outstrips their capacity. What makes things particularly difficult is that the coronavirus doesn’t affect everyone in the same way. Being able to better predict which patients will get seriously ill would allow hospitals […]
Memory is as much about the future as it is the past. Whether experiencing something new, or something we’ve experienced a hundred times, people use memories of the past to navigate subsequent encounters. Traditionally, psychologists believed that the more ingrained a memory of something was, the more difficult it would be to update your understanding […]
Early data suggests that Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine is more than 90% effective in preventing an infection with the virus that causes COVID-19, the company announced on Monday (Nov. 9). The vaccine, developed by Pfizer and German drug company BioNTech, is currently being tested in a large phase 3 clinical trial — the last and most […]
November 5, 2020 — Regeneron announced today an update from the independent data monitoring committee (DMC) for the United Kingdom-based RECOVERY trial evaluating REGN-COV2 in hospitalized patients with COVID-19. The DMC reviewed available safety and efficacy data for the 15,545 total patients randomized, including the 325 patients who were in the arm randomized to receive […]
The frantic swirl of coronavirus-related information sharing that took place this year on social media is the subject of a new analysis led by researchers at the School of Informatics and Computing at IUPUI. Published in the open-access journal Informatics, the study focuses on the sharing of data visualizations on Twitter—by health experts and average […]
A recently developed data science pathway for fourth-year radiology residents will help prepare the next generation of radiologists to lead the way into the era of artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI-ML), according to a special report published in Radiology: Artificial Intelligence. AI-ML has the potential to transform medicine by delivering better and more efficient […]
