FDA Rejects Bid To Authorize Cheap Antidepressant As Covid Treatment

Topline The Food and Drug Administration on Monday declined to authorize a cheap and widely available antidepressant as a treatment for Covid-19, finding that a study indicating the drug was effective...

Common Antidepressant Likely Cuts Risk Of Covid Hospitalization, Study Finds

Topline Fluvoxamine, a cheap and widely available pill used around the world to treat mental illness, is very likely to reduce the risk of being hospitalized with Covid-19, according to new peer revie...

WHO Backs Merck’s Antiviral Pill For High-Risk Covid Patients But Finds Regeneron’s Antibody Cocktail ‘Ineffective’ Against Omicron

Topline The World Health Organization has recommended Merck’s molnupiravir to treat high-risk Covid patients, the agency announced Thursday, the first oral antiviral it has endorsed though availabilit...