The stalwart drug hydroxychloroquine, a decades-old antimalarial that people have more recently used to treat lupus and rheumatoid arthritis, started getting attention as a possible treatment and ...

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. A study of hospitalized coronavirus patients who were treated with hydroxychloroquine – the drug President ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In late March and early April, President Trump repeatedly proclaimed that hydroxychloroquine could prevent or treat COVID-19.

President Donald Trump said Monday that he has been taking hydroxychloroquine, an unproven treatment for COVID-19 that he has vigorously promoted. “A lot of good things have come out about the hydroxy ...

On the heels of studies showing hydroxychloroquine doesn’t help patients in the hospital with Covid-19, a new study – the first of its kind – shows the drug doesn’t work to prevent infection with the ...

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday warned against the use of two antimalarial drugs that ...

A year ago, infectious disease doctor Christine Johnston was leading a study on the use of hydroxychloroquine for the treatment of people with COVID-19. The trial launched at the end of March, when ...

When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. But when life gives you lemons and grapefruit, some social media users claim you can make hydroxychloroquine. A Jan. 19 Facebook post asserts simmering ...

We focused our assessment on controlled studies, those that compare the effects of a drug in one group versus those who did not receive therapy in another. This is critical when establishing the ...

A Rasmussen Reports survey of 1,000 American adults conducted in April found that 53 percent of Republicans were willing to take anti-malarial hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19, while only 18 ...

The World Health Organization says it is temporarily halting its clinical trials that use hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19 patients over published concerns that the drug may do more harm than good ...

A large study of the drug hydroxychloroquine has been retracted by three of its authors. The paper, published in the journal the Lancet last month, concluded that hydroxychloroquine, taken either ...