Category: treatment

Australian Regulatory Body Grants Approval for New COVID-19 Treatment

The Australian Therapeutic Goods and Drugs Administration (TGA) has granted provisional approval for the use of the drug tocilizumab in the treatment of COVID-19. Sold under the brand name “ACTEMRA” and produced by Roche, the drug is already an approved treatment for arthritis and inflammatory conditions and is the fourth COVID-19 treatment to be given…


Run on Horse Ivermectin to Treat COVID-19 Leaves Arizona Feed Stores in Short Supply

Amy Jonson pointed at an empty store shelf where the tubes of horse ivermectin paste used to be for sale and amply stocked. “We’re sold out [again],” said Jonson, vice president of The Western Ranchman Store in Phoenix, Arizona. In fact, Jonson said the feed store has been sold out for weeks. There’s no way…


Learning What to Look for in a Cancer Specialist

Cancer is one of the most common diseases of our age, and yet those who face it rarely know what’s about to happen to them beyond the broadest terms. “Cancer up Close” is an open recount of Michele Goncalves’s cancer journey from pre-diagnosis to life after treatment. As someone who favors treating my maladies as…


UK’s Regulator Approves First Drug Designed Specifically to Tackle COVID-19

The medicines regulator has approved use of the first treatment in the UK using man-made antibodies to prevent and fight COVID-19. Health Secretary Sajid Javid said approval of the first drug designed specifically for COVID-19 in the country is “fantastic news” and he hopes it can be rolled out for patients on the NHS “as…


Appeals Court Upholds Rationing of Hepatitis C Treatment

CINCINNATI—The Kentucky Department of Corrections can deny a life-saving but expensive hepatitis C medication to inmates, a federal appeals court ruled in a split decision. The dissenting judge in last week’s 2–1 ruling at the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the majority’s opinion will condemn hundreds of prisoners to long-term organ damage and…


Cancer Survivor Was Told She Had No Realistic Chance of Fertility, Delivers Miracle Baby

A cancer survivor was left tinged with sadness after completing her breast cancer treatment because although she’d beaten cancer, doctors had told her the treatment meant her dream of completing her family with a third child was over. After undergoing intensive treatment for breast cancer, Alison Watts, who was 29, had gone through early menopause,…


Bloomberg Forum Moves Back to Singapore Amid Concerns Over Press Treatment in China

BEIJING—The Bloomberg New Economy Forum will move to Singapore this year, in part because of the “very concerning” conditions journalists face in China, according to comments by Bloomberg founder Michael Bloomberg reported by the Financial Times. The Nov. 16-19 event will be limited to 400 participants, with sustainability as well as COVID-19 and how countries…


UCI Says Its Antibody Treatment Could Reduce COVID-19 Hospitalizations Nationwide

Medical researchers at the University of California–Irvine (UCI) say their ongoing success with administering antibodies to treat COVID-19 could slow hospitalizations nationwide. The UCI Health researchers say they continue to see positive results in their clinical method for infusing patients with monoclonal antibodies—laboratory-made proteins that mimic the immune system’s ability to fight off viruses—for the…


Health-Care Wait Times Grew Longer in 2020, Report Finds

Wait times in Canada’s health-care system as of the end of 2020 have increased to a point that they are much longer than what physicians would consider clinically “reasonable,” according to a new survey report from the Fraser Institute think tank. Based on data collected from specialist physicians across 12 specialities and 10 provinces between Jan. 7 and…