The stalwart drug hydroxychloroquine, a decades-old antimalarial that people have more recently used to treat lupus and rheumatoid arthritis, started getting attention as a possible treatment and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In late March and early April, President Trump repeatedly proclaimed that hydroxychloroquine could prevent or treat COVID-19.

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. A study of hospitalized coronavirus patients who were treated with hydroxychloroquine – the drug President ...

On the heels of studies showing hydroxychloroquine doesn’t help patients in the hospital with Covid-19, a new study – the first of its kind – shows the drug doesn’t work to prevent infection with the ...

Early in health officials’ response to the pandemic, one drug offered hope of a safe, widely available, and cheap therapeutic that would break the death grip that COVID-19 held on the world. However, ...

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday warned against the use of two antimalarial drugs that ...

When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. But when life gives you lemons and grapefruit, some social media users claim you can make hydroxychloroquine. A Jan. 19 Facebook post asserts simmering ...

The World Health Organization says it is temporarily halting its clinical trials that use hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19 patients over published concerns that the drug may do more harm than good ...

President Donald Trump made headlines Monday when he voluntarily told reporters that he was taking hydroxychloroquine, which Trump has frequently touted as a “game changer” for coronavirus. This ...

A year ago, infectious disease doctor Christine Johnston was leading a study on the use of hydroxychloroquine for the treatment of people with COVID-19. The trial launched at the end of March, when ...

Subscribe to WIRED and stay smart with more of your favorite Ideas writers. The surprising study became available on the preprint server bioRxiv on August 19. Its authors describe how they dosed a ...

Hydroxychloroquine was no better than a placebo at preventing symptoms of COVID-19 among people exposed to the coronavirus, according to research from the University of Minnesota Medical School.