Symptoms of long COVID include shortness of breath, brain fog, sleep disturbances and fatigue. Two new clinical trials at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital are testing treatments for long COVID symptoms. Photo: Getty Images. Sweeping new research in Colorado aims to help patients who are suffering from varied, persistent and […]
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New AI-generated COVID drug enters Phase I clinical trials: ‘Effective against all variants’
Artificial intelligence is increasingly moving into the health care arena and helping to streamline medical processes — including the creation of new drugs. Insilico Medicine, an AI-driven biotech company based in Hong Kong and in New York City, recently announced that its new AI-designed drug for COVID-19 has entered Phase […]
NIH Launches Clinical Trials for Long COVID Treatments
Through the RECOVER Initiative, NIH has launched multiple clinical trials to study interventions for the most common symptoms of Long COVID. Through the RECOVER Initiative, NIH has launched multiple clinical trials to study interventions for the most common symptoms of Long COVID. What you need to know Most […]
First long COVID treatment clinical trials from NIH getting underway
Two new clinical trials to test potential treatments for long COVID are now set to launch, the National Institutes of Health said Monday, opening enrollment for the first of an array of federally-funded studies aimed at evaluating treatments for long-term symptoms still faced by many COVID-19 survivors. They will begin […]
NIH launches trials for long-COVID treatments: what scientists think
Being hospitalized for a COVID-19 infection is a risk factor for eventually developing long COVID.Credit: Mario Tama/Getty The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced yesterday that it will launch its first trials to test the safety and efficacy of treatments against long COVID. These trials will focus on therapies […]
Insilico Medicine to commence trials of ISM3312 for Covid-19
The trial will explore ISM3312’s safety and efficacy in different subgroups of patients with Covid-19. Credit: 21c CMM on Unsplash. Insilico Medicine has announced plans to commence clinical trials of its orally available 3CLpro inhibitor ISM3312 in China for the treatment of Covid-19 patients. The latest move comes after the […]
World’s first AI-designed COVID drug starts clinical trials
For the first time ever, a COVID-19 drug entirely designed by generative AI has been approved for human use and will soon begin clinical trials in China, the Canadian-founded company announced Thursday. The drug, named ISM3312, was discovered in a matter of months by multinational biotechnology company Insilico Medicine. Believed […]
How Parents Feel About Their Kids in COVID-19 Vaccine Trials
Katelyn Evans, 16, has never met Randy Kerr—and there’s no reason she should have. It was 66 years ago that Kerr, then 6, became briefly famous, receiving the first injection of Jonas Salk’s experimental polio vaccine during the massive field trial of hundreds of thousands of children in the spring […]