US President Donald Trump has been receiving treatment combining the remdesivir antiviral drug, an 8-gram dose of Regeneron's polyclonal antibody cocktail, and the steroid drug dexamethasone since he announced last week that he had contracted the coronavirus and was taken to the Walter Reed Medical Centre. Read More »

Dr. Michael Ryan, the head of emergencies at the World Health Organization (WHO), revealed Monday that the agency’s “best estimates” suggest that around 1 in 10 people worldwide may have been infected by COVID-19, which would be more than 20 times the number of confirmed cases. Read More »

Earlier in the day, US President Donald Trump confirmed that senior aide Hope Hicks had been diagnosed with COVID-19, and that he will quarantine together with his wife, Melania, until getting the results of their own tests. Read More »

A new survey conducted by researchers at the University of California - San Francisco recently indicated that Americans who identify as gay, lesbian or bisexual are much more likely to suffer from migraines than their heterosexual counterparts. Read More »

In a stunning development, a former Chief Science Officer for the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer says "there is no science to suggest a second wave should happen." The "Big Pharma" insider asserts that false positive results from inherently unreliable COVID tests are being used to manufacture a "second wave" based on "new cases." Read More »

The main test used to diagnose coronavirus is so sensitive it could be picking up fragments of dead virus from old infections, scientists say. Read More »

According to Johns Hopkins University data, the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the world has reached 31 million and claimed at least 1 million lives, as several countries reimpose strict new coronavirus measures. Read More »

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have successfully isolated the smallest biological molecule yet found that “completely and specifically neutralizes” SARS-CoV-2, the virus which causes COVID-19. Read More »

A new study, published by researchers at Yale University on preprint website bioRxiv and which has yet to be peer-reviewed, says that the COVID-19 coronavirus can also invade brain cells and cause neurological symptoms like headaches, confusion and delirium. Read More »

A third trial round for an AstraZeneca vaccine against the virus was launched in the United States in August. Earlier, tests on other COVID-19 vaccines were begun in the United Kingdom, Brazil and South Africa.  Read More »