Published March 13, 2021, 11:08 AM
Mexico on Friday approved the anti-viral drug remdesivir for emergency use treating COVID-19 patients in the Latin American country, one of the worst hit by the pandemic.
In this file photo taken on April 08, 2020, one vial of the drug Remdesivir lies during a press conference about the start of a study with the Ebola drug Remdesivir in particularly severely ill patients at the University Hospital Eppendorf (UKE) in Hamburg, northern Germany, amidst the new coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic.
(Photo by Ulrich Perrey / POOL / AFP / MANILA BULLETIN)
Regulatory agency Cofepris said it had authorized the medicine for use exclusively by hospitals and specialist doctors during the early stages of the illness.
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New COVID-19 therapy could be 30 times more potent than Remdesivir
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File photo of the drug Remdesivir, an antiviral medication that has been used to treat patients with COVID-19.Ulrich Perrey/afp/TNS
A UCSF-led science team may have found another breakthrough drug treatment to fight COVID-19, as first reported by the San Francisco Chronicle. Studies have shown that small concentrations of Aplidin, a drug created using an extraction from a marine creature called Aplidium albicans, killed the virus in both infected human lung cells and analogous cells from monkeys.
The study, which has been published in the journal Science, shows that the “sea squirt” found off the coast of Ibiza could be almost 30 times more potent than Remdesivir, the Chronicle reported. While not yet approved to treat patients with COVID-19, if proven effective this treatment would be a welcome addition to the still small amount of antiviral drugs available to treat the disease.
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