Tag: Remdesivir
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Remdesivir first Covid-19 drug to receive EU’s green light
The first drug to treat severe cases of Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the EU on Friday was given the green light, with the European Commission approving remdesivir. The EU’s Health Commissioner, Stella Kyriakides, said the union would leave no stone unturned in its efforts to secure efficient treatments or vaccine against the coronavirus. “It is the…
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US approves emergency use of Remdesivir to treat hospitalized COVID-19 patients
US regulators have allowed the emergency use of the experimental drug remdesivir, which appears to help some coronavirus patients recover faster. It is the first drug shown to help fight Covid-19, which has killed more than 230,000 people worldwide. President Donald Trump announced the news on Friday at the White House alongside Stephen Hahn, the…
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Good News! US discovers antiviral drug that helps COVID-19 patients recover faster
Preliminary results of a major study of the antiviral drug remdesivir show it can help hospitalized patients with COVID-19 recover faster. TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports that Remdesivir is an antiviral drug that targets replication mechanisms in viruses to stop them reproducing. Gilead, a California-based biotechnology company, initially developed it to treat Ebola, another virus, but it…