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2 Experimental Drugs "Very Good News" For Ebola Treatment: Scientists
Scientists are a step closer to finding the first effective treatments for the deadly Ebola haemorrhagic fever after two potential drugs showed encouraging survival results in a clinical trial in Congo.
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Japanese Firm Says Ebola Drug Tests Offers 'Hope'
The Japanese company behind an experimental Ebola treatment says it offers new hope for thousands of people infected with the deadly virus in west Africa, but acknowledged it is "not a miracle drug".
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Limited Promise in Early Results from Ebola Drug Trial
Early results from an Ebola trial using the experimental drug Avigan (favipiravir) showed on Monday that it was somewhat effective at saving lives if given early in the illness, but not later.
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Guinea to Expand Use of Experimental Anti-Ebola Drugs
Guinea's government has authorised the wider use of an experimental drug to treat Ebola in treatment centres after successful initial trials, officials said on Saturday.
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Sierra Leone's Leading Doctor Dies of Ebola
Sierra Leone's leading doctor died of Ebola on Thursday, hours after the arrival in the country of an experimental drug that could have been used to treat him, the government's chief medical officer said.
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Ebola Drug Maker Fujifilm to Buy US Vaccine Maker
Fujifilm said on Monday it would buy a US vaccine maker as the Japanese firm boosts its supply of an experimental Ebola drug to help stem the spread of the virus.
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Flu Drug Aimed at Ebola May Also Fight Norovirus, Study Finds
An experimental Japanese flu drug that has hit the headlines because of its potential to fight Ebola may also work against norovirus, the winter vomiting bug, British researchers said on Tuesday.
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China Sends Ebola Drug to Africa, Eyes Clinical Trials
A Chinese drugmaker with military ties has sent an experimental Ebola drug to Africa for use by Chinese aid workers and is planning clinical trials there to combat a deadly outbreak of the disease, executives at the firm told Reuters on Thursday.
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Experts Question Ethics of Placebo Drug Trials in Case of Ebola
A group of influential health experts has argued the standard practice of using placebos in drug trials would be unethical in the case of experimental medicines for Ebola, given that the world is in the middle of a deadly epidemic.
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Ebola Drug Trials to be Fast-Tracked in West Africa
Experimental Ebola drugs including compounds from Mapp Biopharmaceutical, Sarepta and Tekmira will be tested in affected West African states for the first time in a bid to fast-track trials, the Wellcome Trust said on Tuesday.
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World Experts Race to Deploy Experimental Ebola Drugs
World health experts met in Geneva on Thursday for urgent talks on fast-tracking experimental drugs and other ways of reversing a raging Ebola epidemic in west Africa.
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Liberian Doctor Who Received Rare Ebola Drug ZMapp Dies
One of three African doctors infected with Ebola and treated with the experimental drug ZMapp has died in Monrovia, Liberian Information Minister Lewis Brown said on Monday.
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Sierra Leone 'Hero' Doctor's Death Exposes Slow Ebola Response
When two American aid workers recovered from Ebola after being treated with an experimental drug, the grieving family of Sierra Leone's most famous doctor wondered why he had been denied the same treatment before he died from the deadly virus.
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Consignment of Experimental Ebola Drug Arrives in Liberia
A consignment of experimental Ebola drugs arrived by plane in Liberia on Wednesday to treat two doctors suffering from the virus, which has killed more than 1,000 people across four West African countries.
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WHO Backs Use of Experimental Ebola Drugs in West Africa
People infected in the West African Ebola outbreak can be offered untested drugs, the World Health Organisation said on Tuesday, but the scarcity of supplies has raised questions about who gets priority access to treatment.
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2 Experimental Drugs "Very Good News" For Ebola Treatment: Scientists
Scientists are a step closer to finding the first effective treatments for the deadly Ebola haemorrhagic fever after two potential drugs showed encouraging survival results in a clinical trial in Congo.
-
Japanese Firm Says Ebola Drug Tests Offers 'Hope'
The Japanese company behind an experimental Ebola treatment says it offers new hope for thousands of people infected with the deadly virus in west Africa, but acknowledged it is "not a miracle drug".
-
Limited Promise in Early Results from Ebola Drug Trial
Early results from an Ebola trial using the experimental drug Avigan (favipiravir) showed on Monday that it was somewhat effective at saving lives if given early in the illness, but not later.
-
Guinea to Expand Use of Experimental Anti-Ebola Drugs
Guinea's government has authorised the wider use of an experimental drug to treat Ebola in treatment centres after successful initial trials, officials said on Saturday.
-
Sierra Leone's Leading Doctor Dies of Ebola
Sierra Leone's leading doctor died of Ebola on Thursday, hours after the arrival in the country of an experimental drug that could have been used to treat him, the government's chief medical officer said.
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Ebola Drug Maker Fujifilm to Buy US Vaccine Maker
Fujifilm said on Monday it would buy a US vaccine maker as the Japanese firm boosts its supply of an experimental Ebola drug to help stem the spread of the virus.
-
Flu Drug Aimed at Ebola May Also Fight Norovirus, Study Finds
An experimental Japanese flu drug that has hit the headlines because of its potential to fight Ebola may also work against norovirus, the winter vomiting bug, British researchers said on Tuesday.
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China Sends Ebola Drug to Africa, Eyes Clinical Trials
A Chinese drugmaker with military ties has sent an experimental Ebola drug to Africa for use by Chinese aid workers and is planning clinical trials there to combat a deadly outbreak of the disease, executives at the firm told Reuters on Thursday.
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Experts Question Ethics of Placebo Drug Trials in Case of Ebola
A group of influential health experts has argued the standard practice of using placebos in drug trials would be unethical in the case of experimental medicines for Ebola, given that the world is in the middle of a deadly epidemic.
-
Ebola Drug Trials to be Fast-Tracked in West Africa
Experimental Ebola drugs including compounds from Mapp Biopharmaceutical, Sarepta and Tekmira will be tested in affected West African states for the first time in a bid to fast-track trials, the Wellcome Trust said on Tuesday.
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World Experts Race to Deploy Experimental Ebola Drugs
World health experts met in Geneva on Thursday for urgent talks on fast-tracking experimental drugs and other ways of reversing a raging Ebola epidemic in west Africa.
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Liberian Doctor Who Received Rare Ebola Drug ZMapp Dies
One of three African doctors infected with Ebola and treated with the experimental drug ZMapp has died in Monrovia, Liberian Information Minister Lewis Brown said on Monday.
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Sierra Leone 'Hero' Doctor's Death Exposes Slow Ebola Response
When two American aid workers recovered from Ebola after being treated with an experimental drug, the grieving family of Sierra Leone's most famous doctor wondered why he had been denied the same treatment before he died from the deadly virus.
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Consignment of Experimental Ebola Drug Arrives in Liberia
A consignment of experimental Ebola drugs arrived by plane in Liberia on Wednesday to treat two doctors suffering from the virus, which has killed more than 1,000 people across four West African countries.
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WHO Backs Use of Experimental Ebola Drugs in West Africa
People infected in the West African Ebola outbreak can be offered untested drugs, the World Health Organisation said on Tuesday, but the scarcity of supplies has raised questions about who gets priority access to treatment.
