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NIH to Fund Study of Repurposed Drugs to Treat COVID-19 Patients at Home
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently announced it will fund a large randomized clinical trial to assess whether existing drugs already approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) can be repurposed to treat COVID-19 at home.
The NIH said it will provide $155 million in funding for a Phase 3 trial to test the effectiveness of seven over-the-counter and prescription medications to lessen the severity and duration of mild-to-moderate COVID-19 symptoms.
“While we’re doing a good job with treating hospitalized patients with severe disease, we don’t currently have an approved medication that can be self-administered to ease symptoms of people suffering mild disease at home, and reduce the chance of their needing hospitalization,” NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins said in a press release. “ACTIV-6 will evaluate whether certain drugs showing promise in small trials can pass the rigor of a l
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Hampton Roads parents encouraged to register children for kindergarten now
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SUFFOLK, Va. â Parents with preschool-aged children are being encouraged to register them now for kindergarten in the fall.
An initiative called Minus 9 to 5 â which works out of Eastern Virginia Medical School â helps connect medical professionals, parents and advocates working with early childhood matters.
Minus 9 to 5 has set up a central website to help parents in South Hampton Roads. Itâs ReadySetRegisterHR.org. On that site, parents can click on their city and it will direct them to the school districtâs page. It also offers help ordering important documents like birth certificates, which sometimes are misplaced.
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Two dermatologists one Black and female, the other white and male are calling on their colleagues at all levels of training and leadership to join the fight against systemic racism and the legacy of racial injustice against Black patients.
Inherent biases in medical education must be addressed, the number of visible minorities within the specialty increased, and unnecessary variations in clinical care eliminated, Robert J. Smith, MD, and Brittany U. Oliver, MD, wrote in a recent
Smith, assistant professor of dermatology at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, and Oliver, a resident in dermatology at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, provide a strategic blueprint for tackling racial disparities both inside the specialty and beyond the clinic.