Novartis CEO Vas Narasimhan said on March 29 that his company's hydroxychloroquine drug for malaria, lupus and arthritis is their biggest hope for tackling the coronavirus.
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Medtronic is publicly sharing its ventilation design specifications to accelerate global ventilator production efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a March 30 announcement.
James Goodrich, MD, PhD, chief of pediatric neurosurgery at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, N.Y., died on March 30 due to complications associated with COVID-19.
OrthoPeditriacs on March 30 withdrew its 2020 revenue projections that estimated growth within the range of 22 percent to 24 percent.
Neurosurgeon Gavin Dunn, MD, PhD, is one of the medical professionals aboard the USNS Mercy, which began accepting patients in Los Angeles on March 29, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports.
Sports medicine specialist Jason Smith, DO, is already clocking long hours as the Toledo-Lucas County (Ohio) Health Board's new part-time medical director, according to The Toledo Blade.
An employee at Carolina Orthopedics tested positive for COVID-19, according to a statement on the practice's website.
Orthopedic surgeon David Bruce, MD, is helping produce medical gowns for Chattanooga, Tenn.-based Erlanger Hospital and Parkridge Medical Center, reports News Channel 9 ABC.
Lehigh Valley Physician Group in Allentown, Pa., is the most recent example of physician groups furloughing staff and turning to telemedicine in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a report from cut .
CMS expanded the range of services that telemedicine can provide in a March 17 ruling, enabling physicians to see more patients through virtual appointments and ease the burden on emergency rooms and urgent care centers during the coronavirus pandemic.