Covid-19: Arthritis drug trial for severe illness is stopped early after increase in deaths

Is COVID-19 Infection Transmitted Through Food?

 Coronavirus disease (COVID) has had a growing outbreak around the world. China reported COVID-19 infection for the first time in December 2019. Symptoms of this disease often include respiratory symptoms, but gastrointestinal symptoms (nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea) were also reported in COVID-19 infection. Coronavirus transmits through direct droplets, contact, or fomites. However, other mod...

Randomized trials addressing a similar question are commonly published after a trial stopped early for benefit.

OBJECTIVE We explored how investigators of ongoing or planned trials respond to the publication of a trial stopped early for benefit addressing a similar question. STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING We searched multiple databases from the date of publication of the truncated trial through August, 2015. Independent reviewers selected trials and extracted data. RESULTS We identified 207 trials truncate...

Drug therapy for severe, chronic pain in terminal illness.

T REATMENT OF PAIN-mild or severe, acute or chronic-is a major component of medical practice. Acute pain is recognized as a useful symptom that alerts the patient and physician to a medical problem. Acute pain is relatively easy to treat; it sharpens and then lessens. Mild pain-even mild, chronic pain-also is relatively easy to treat. The medical profession is armed with a host of analgesic age...

Worries, confusion after cancer trial deaths.

9 DECEMBER 2016 • VOL 354 ISSUE 6317 1211 SCIENCE sciencemag.org P H O T O : S T E V E G S C H M E IS S N E R / S C IE N C E P H O T O L IB R A R Y A n experimental cancer therapy is facing its biggest setback yet, after an unexpected complication killed seven people over about a year, five of them in a single clinical trial. The company, Seattle, Washington–based Juno Therapeutics, has its mos...

The COVID-19 Pandemic: Is It A Wolf Consuming Fertility?