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Montgomery County, PA, has teamed up with Real Time Medical Systems to provide 24/7 electronic Infectious Disease Surveillance of nursing facilities in the county, who have volunteered to share their data. The cloud-based software pulls data from the electronic...

After the initial uncertainty over export of hydroxychloroquine from India, a drug used in the fight against Covid-19, the first consignment of the medicine has reached the United States. Israeli drugmaker Teva has exported the drug from its Goa plant...

The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, the research arm of Northwell Health, has formally joined a national network formed by Mayo Clinic to collect convalescent plasma from patients previously identified with COVID-19, but no longer symptomatic. The US Food and...

Germany & BioNTech SE and Pfizer Inc. disclosed additional details of their collaboration to advance candidates from BioNTech’s mRNA vaccine program, previously announced on March 17, 2020. The collaboration aims to rapidly advance multiple COVID-19 vaccine candidates into human clinical...

Alexis Multispeciality Hospital in Nagpur, India has successfully enabled Telemedicine services for patients. Patients can now easily access medical consultations from the comfort of their homes with this facility. The telemedicine services have come handy at an apt time...

Eli Lilly and Company announced it has entered into an agreement with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to study baricitinib as an arm in NIAID's Adaptive COVID-19...

At a time when the Covid-19 epidemic is posing unprecedented challenges to the health sector, the Council of Europe calls on governments to be extremely vigilant against counterfeit or falsified medicines and medical products. Faced with this threat, states...