 The operation is believed to be the first of its kind in the U.S. The patient, a woman in her 20s, had been healthy, but the coronavirus devastated her lungs.  An extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, or ECMO, room, where coronavirus patients...

 The Japanese drug Avigan may be the world’s best hope for ending the global Covid-19 pandemic On 7 April, Japanese top diplomat Toshimitsu Motegi declared that his country would allow 20 other countries to test Avigan, a drug for influenza that has helped...

When the World Health Organization (WHO) says that a given anti-coronavirus product is a leader, that’s about as official as it gets in the fast-moving world of COVID-19 therapies and vaccines. Earlier this year, a top WHO executive stated that Gilead...

These days, studies heralding some hopeful — or horrifying — new finding about the coronavirus are multiplying nearly as fast as the bug itself. As medical researchers the world over give COVID-19 their undivided attention, each week brings a new smorgasbord of...

 University is leading rivals but first drugs may not work fully, says vaccine taskforce chair Oxford University is leading the world in developing a vaccine against Covid-19 and offers the best chance of having something protective against the virus as we go...