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President Joe Biden’s inept leadership has spawned tragic tentacles as supply chain shortages threaten to kill cancer and COVID-19 patients unable to receive life-saving drugs. The FDA currently lists 109 drugs in short supply nationally. Three of the top five medications shortages are drugs used for chemotherapy, heart conditions and antibiotics. One of the scarce drugs is the anti-inflammatory tocilizumab, used by both cancer and COVID-19 patients. The scarcity has forced physicians to ration drugs. Dr. Patrick Jackson, an infectious-disease physician gives tocilizumab to chemotherapy patients while denying COVID patients because there simply isn’t enough to go around. Brian Spoehlhof,...

New Delhi [India], September 24 (ANI): Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)-COVID-19 National Task Force Joint Monitoring Group dropped the usage of Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) drugs from revised clinical guidelines for the management of adult COVID-19 patients. However, the new guidelines mention the use of Remdesivir and Tocilizumab in specific circumstances. Among the key guidelines which are routinely stressed include--wearing masks, physical distancing and hand hygiene. Suggesting a moderate use of other drugs like Remedesivir, the guideline advises the former to be used only in select moderate or severe Covid-19 patients on supplemental oxygen within 10 days of onset...

A healthcare AI company has spotted several unexpected, off-label drug combinations that may do the job against COVID-19. In any case, the company is offering its complete AI toolkit free of charge to drug developers working on COVID treatments. In announcing its work, Germany-based Innoplexus, which specializes in AI-based drug discovery and development, says the promising combos emerged from its processing of hundreds of studies covering thousands of patients. Most of the findings mentioned in the announcement involve the potential of the decades-old, much-discussed malaria fighter Hydroxychloroquine as used with other drugs. For example, the analysis showed that combining Chloroquine...