Medicine

With over a million people already infected AND 50,000 fatalities, the race is on to find a cure for Covid-19, the virus which has arguably caused the most serious global crisis since World War II.

The last few months for most of us have been not just bizarre - but scary. Hundreds of thousands have caught the coronavirus and tens of thousands have died - and that will rise.

The World Health Organization says Africa will NOT be a testing ground for any coronavirus vaccine. The statement comes in response to what the organisation calls racist comments made by two French doctors.

On the first step toward escaping the pricing maze, Professor Salvare takes Pete Paystoomuch down the path of drug innovation, showing him why drug prices are initially more expensive – to cover all of the costs that go into developing a new medicine.

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has spent the last few decades working to improve global health through his philanthropic organization, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Brian Skorney, Robert W. Baird analyst who covers Gilead Sciences, joins 'Closing Bell' to discuss why he's skeptical about Gilead Science's Remdesivir clinical studies to see if the drug can treat COVID-19.

Nearly half the supply of hydroxychloroquine to the U.S. comes from makers in India.

The World Health Organization chief angrily slammed recent comments made by scientists suggesting a vaccine for the new coronavirus should be tested in Africa as "racist" and a hangover from the "colonial mentality".

There is no specific medicine to treat the illness caused by the novel coronavirus, but researchers at the University of Texas hope to change that.

There’s no conclusive scientific evidence that hydroxychloroquine can treat the infection from the novel coronavirus.

The spread of Coronavirus, COVID-19, has now hit almost all African countries.

Scientists & researchers toil worldwide to find the vaccine of pandemic Coronavirus (COVID-19). Even the big tobacco firms going all-in.

Ontario pharmacist Hank Parsaniya says the COVID-19 pandemic has totally changed the way his pharmacy operates.

As hospitals across the country fill with COVID-19 patients, medical personnel are sounding the alarm about shortages of drugs essential to those patients' care.