Hydroxychloroquine

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A study says, hydroxychloroquine inhibits pathways that drive resistance to chemotherapy agent cisplatin in head and neck cancers and restores tumour-killing effects of cisplatin in animal models

Emergency use authorisation to continue; recently, WHO had raised doubts about efficacy of drug in treatment of Covid-19 patients

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This study, first published on MedRxiv, has already made significant impacts in the healthcare community

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The problem is that traditionally there has been poor scrutiny of clinical trials in India where often the emphasis is on cutting costs, said Arun Bhatt, former president of the ISCR

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According to the clinical management protocol for Covid-19, the HCQ has been described as 'repurposed or off-label therapy.'

In May, Trump disclosed that he was taking daily doses of hydroxychloroquine to ward off coronavirus after consulting the White House doctor

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They found that HCQ showed no substantial antiviral activity, regardless of the timing of treatment initiation, either before infection, soon after infection, or late after infection

India accounts for 40 per cent of US generic drug imports, including the anti-malarial hydroxychloroquine, touted by US President Donald Trump in the fight against Covid-19.

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The idea that hydroxychloroquine is a dangerous drug is 'just silly', says Peter Navarro, White House Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy Director.

Mike Ryan, head of the WHO's emergencies programme, said it would be unwise to predict when a vaccine could be ready against Covid-19

It also recommended hydroxychloroquine in patients during the early course of the disease and not on critically ill patients

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As efforts to 'chase the virus' begin to pay off in Mumbai's Dharavi, frontline workers and residents share accounts of recent months

Team of UK scientists, led by an Indian-origin researcher, has found that Covid-19 patients with extremely high levels of stress hormone cortisol in their blood are more likely to deteriorate quickly