Category: Treatment

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

COVID-19: It’s Remdesivir, Stupid! Coronavirus’ New “Standard of Care,” Lessons From HIV’s AZT, and Oxford University’s Risky Bet on a SARS-COV-2 Vaccine this Fall.

Yesterday, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci announced that preliminary data from a highly powered (1090+ individuals) randomized placebo control trial (Adaptive Covirus Disease Treatment Trial, ACCT-1) of Gilead’s...

Asia vs Western response to coronavirus

COVID-19: “Flattening the Curve” II: Is China’s Response to the Coronavirus Pandemic the New Gold Standard?

Nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPIs), especially social distancing, saved lives during the 1918 Spanish Flu. A hundred years later, China, a country of 1.4 billion people from where the coronavirus originated has effectively “flattened the curve”...

MIT AI

New Drug Discovery Aided by AI

Scientists at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) have used machine-learning algorithm (artificial intelligence, AI) to identify and successfully test a powerful new antibiotic, halicin which showed strong antibacterial activity against E. coli, a very...