CIENCIASMEDICASNEWS: Life Saving Drug Found for COVID-19 Patients on Ventilators

lunes, 22 de junio de 2020

Life Saving Drug Found for COVID-19 Patients on Ventilators

	Pharmacy / Pharmacology
	The latest pharmacy / pharmacology news from News Medical

Life Saving Drug Found for COVID-19 Patients on Ventilators

Results from Oxford University’s RECOVERY trial into existing drugs for the treatment of COVID-19 has found that dexamethasone reduced deaths by a third in ventilated coronavirus patients and by a fifth in coronavirus patients requiring oxygen. This is the first drug of its kind to be demonstrated to have a significant impact on COVID-19 mortality.

			Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitor vs. Angiotensin Receptor Blockers Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blockers are antihypertensive medicines used to treat high blood pressure.

			Synthetic peptide could be an effective COVID-19 treatment and SARS-CoV-2 vaccine Ligandal, one of the world’s leading genetic medicine companies, has modeled a synthetic peptide that could be an effective COVID-19 treatment and SARS-CoV-2 vaccine.

	New $26.9 million project aims to create better psychiatric drugs without side effects Rapidly acting drugs to treat depression, anxiety, or substance abuse without side effects do not exist. Researchers led by Bryan L. Roth, MD, PhD, the Michael Hooker Distinguished Professor of Pharmacology at the UNC School of Medicine, are trying to change that.

	Machine learning helps predict clinical forms of drug-induced cardiotoxicity We announce the publication of a new research paper titled 'Dual transcriptomic and molecular machine learning predicts all major clinical forms of drug cardiotoxicity' in Frontiers in Pharmacology.

	Hydroxychloroquine shows no antiviral effect on SARS-Cov-2 in non-human primate models A study on the effects of hydroxychloroquinei n macaques infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus, , used alone or in combination with azithromycin, have been pre-published on Research Square, after their submission to Nature.