LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Long before vaccines, the focus was on a handful of COVID-19 treatments that provided glimmers of hope. The first to emerge was convalescent plasma. It offered a way for ...
Some longtime advocates of the therapy say they’re pessimistic about its future. This is a Kaiser Health News story. Six months after it was controversially hailed by Trump administration officials as ...
Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health supported the first blood center in the U.S. to be granted full FDA approval to provide convalescent plasma to immunocompromised ...
One of the advantages of convalescent plasma is that as long as it’s been donated recently, there’s a high likelihood it will have antibodies to currently circulating variants, according to advocates ...
SAN DIEGO (KGTV) -- For months, U.S. hospitals relied on convalescent plasma to treat severely ill COVID-19 patients, administering as many as 25,000 units per week. But today, hospitals across the ...
Six months after it was controversially hailed by Trump administration officials as a “breakthrough” therapy to fight the worst effects of Covid-19, convalescent plasma appears to be on the ropes. The ...
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A new study from researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and colleagues suggests that a slowdown in the use of convalescent plasma to treat hospitalized COVID-19 patients led to ...
The FDA’s withdrawal of its authorization for Evusheld, a monoclonal antibody therapy used to prevent and treat Covid-19, leaves no monoclonals available for this purpose. Another monoclonal, ...
A new study led by researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health estimates that thousands of lives could have been saved during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic if convalescent ...
Researchers examine whether the blood of a recovered patient can help others. Experts are hoping a century-old technique used for treating epidemics may hold new promise for treating COVID-19 patients ...
LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Long before vaccines, the focus was on a handful of COVID-19 treatments that provided glimmers of hope. The first to emerge was convalescent plasma. It offered a way for ...