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Magen David Adom medical workers perform COVID-19 tests at a drive-through site in Lod, on July 10, 2020. Photo by Yossi Aloni/Flash90.

MDA launches pilot program for 15-minute COVID-19 test

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A Magen David Adom pilot program for a 15-minute coronavirus test was launched in the central Israeli city of Lod on Wednesday with Israeli Health Minister Yuli Edelstein and Deputy Health Minister Yoav Kisch...
This illustration, created at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), reveals ultrastructural morphology exhibited by coronaviruses. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

FDA approves chloroquine for emergency COVID-19 trials

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved the use of chloroquine phosphate and hydroxychloroquine for emergency treatment of COVID-19 patients, despite a lack of clinical data on their efficacy. According to financial daily Globes,...
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries. Credit: Flickr.

Teva to send millions of tablets to US hospitals for possible treatment of virus

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Israeli pharmaceutical giant Teva said that it will donate millions of doses of its anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine, which has been touted as a possible treatment for the coronavirus (COVID-19), to U.S. hospitals free of charge. It said...