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Note: The original article was published on jefferdachmd on May 30. The author, Jeffrey Dach, MD is the director of TrueMedMD, a medical clinic in Florida that specializes in bioidentical hormones and natural thyroids as well as heart disease prevention. He has been in practice for over 20 years, with the specialty/subspecialities of radiology, general …
A recent study conducted from May 2 to June 5, 2020 at the First Affiliated Hospital Xi’an Jiaotong University involving 116 patients who tested positive for COVID-19 has concluded that concerning treatment outcome, adverse effects, and safety, although both treatments regimes were effective in this study, the combination of Ivermectin with Doxycycline was superior to …
A Brazilain trial testing chloroquine to treat COVID-19 had to be stopped early in one group of patients receiving high doses of the drug after some developed dangerous heart rhythm problems. 440 patients were planned to be involved in this double blinded study to investigate the safety and effectiveness of the drug against COVID-19; patients …
Patients in China with COVID-19 treated with HCQ/hydroxychloroquine were observed to have a shorter time to clinical recovery as well as improved pneumonia in a randomized trial. HCQ is an antimalarial that is also used to treat autoimmune diseases such as lupus. Those that received hydroxychloroquine with standard treatment were observed to have had a …
New York State’s largest hospital system is giving high dose intravenous vitamin C treatments to COVID-19 patients based on reports from China of the approach helping patients there, according to the Post. Pulmonologist and critical care specialists Dr. Andrew G. Weber, who is affiliated with two Northwell Health facilities on Long Island, is reporting that …