Search Tag: anti-viral drugs
2021 04 Nov
U.K.’s Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency has authorised the first oral antiviral medicine for treating mild-to-moderate COVID-19 in adults with a positive COVID-19 infection and at least one risk factor for developing severe illness. Molnupiravir will be the first oral medicine authorised for COVID-19. This is a major achievement...Read more
2021 16 Feb
Mortality trials of four antiviral drugs - remdesivir, hydroxychloroquine, lopinavir and interferon beta-1a were recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) to evaluate their effect in patients hospitalised with COVID-19. In March 2020, the WHO began a large international trial that included hospital inpatients to evaluate the effects...Read more