The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced on Sunday that it had issued an emergency use authorization for a convalescent blood plasma as experimental treatment for COVID-19. The treatment, which relies on injecting COVID-19 survivors’ antibodies into other patients to increase their body’s defenses against the virus, has been used …
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The Food and Drug Administration’s emergency authorization for blood plasma as a treatment for the coronavirus has been put on hold to obtain more data, according to a report. An emergency service approval could still be issued by the FDA in the very near future, H. Clifford Lane, clinical director …
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According to a study published Tuesday, a blood test has been shown to detect five types of cancer years before the diseases can be detected using conventional diagnostic methods. Developed by a Chinese-American startup, the test found cancers in 91 percent of people who showed no symptoms when the blood …
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reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.July 21, 2020 An international team of researchers has developed a non-invasive blood test that can detect if a person has one of the five common types of cancer, four years before the condition can be diagnosed with current methods. The test detects cancer of the …
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The coronavirus pandemic is still rapidly spreading worldwide, infecting more than 14.44 million people. With more than 188 countries and territories affected, scientists are competing to develop a vaccine against coronavirus 2 for severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS-CoV-2), the virus that causes coronavirus disease (COVID-19). One of the forerunners in …
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