Concerns about Paxlovid rebound are preventing some doctors from prescribing the lifesaving drug and some high-risk patients from taking it
COVID-19 treatment pill Paxlovid is seen in boxes at Misericordia hospital in Grosseto, Italy, on Feb. 8, 2022.(Reuters/Jennifer Lorenzini / Reuters) The agency added that community pharmacies not already participating as test-to-treat sites can decide how or if they will offer this service...
NyQuil is used to treat cold and flu symptoms like cough, fever or headache. It is not used to kill the COVID-19 virus. If you test positive for COVID-19 and have certain health conditions that increase your risk of becoming very sick (for example: lung disease, heart disease, obesity...
WebMD's Chief Medical Officer, John Whyte, MD, discusses the antiviral drug called Paxlovid and the U.S. government's new nationwide COVID-19 Test to Treat initiative. Hide Video Transcript Video Transcript [MUSIC PLAYING] JOHN WHYTE
(VOCs) and breakthrough infections1. Currently, there are very limited options to treat these infections. Remdesivir and Paxlovid are the only antivirals approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat COVID-19 and Lagevrio can only be used under an Emergency Use Authorization (...
The FDA has been busy approving other COVID-19 treatments, including Pfizer’s Paxlovid and Merck’s molnupiravir. However, Dr. Boulware said there is still value in the FDA approving other popular medicines, including fluvoxamine, for the treatment of COVID-19. ...
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"While more study of Paxlovid is needed to confirm our findings of its safety and efficacy during pregnancy, we feel that even at this time, the medication should be strongly considered for pregnant patients who are unvaccinated or at risk for progression to severe COVID disease or not likely...
But there is a better drug—the FDA-authorized virus-killing Paxlovid—to reduce the risk of long COVID, said Chin-Hong. "Metformin doesn't make sense, from an infectious disease perspective, to work against long COVID," he said. "It's not a card-carrying antiviral." ...
A new tool to rapidly grow cancer-killing white blood cells could advance the availability of immunotherapy, a promising therapy which harnesses the power of the body's immune response to target cancer cells. Ad Washington State University researchers have developed a minifridge-sized bioreactor that...