Kaleido Biosciences said on March 24 the company’s experimental oral treatment cut recovery time as well as hospitalizations and emergency room visits in patients with mild to moderate Covid-19, in an early trial.

In a Reuters roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for Covid-19, common cold antibodies yield clues to Covid-19 behavior.

Eli Lilly

Eli Lilly and Co. is seeking emergency use authorization from the U.S. health regulator for the company’s experimental Covid-19 antibody monotherapy and plans to pursue a similar approval for a combination therapy with two of its antibody drugs in November 2020.

The COVID-19 global pandemic, overcrowding of hospitals, the highly contagious virus affecting healthcare professionals and unrelated illnesses has led to a more than 1,000 percent increase of telemed application downloads and memberships. Is this a paradigm shift?

The U.S. FDA gave Nabriva Therapeutics a thumbs-up for the company’s oral and intravenous formulations of Xenleta (lefamulin) to treat community-acquired bacterial pneumonia in adults.

Opiant Pharmaceuticals Inc. announced an agreement with Sanofi to manufacture Opiant’s investigational agent OPNTOO4 (drinabant) for the treatment of Acute Cannabinoid Overdose.