News Archives: April, 2020
UAB to participate in global clinical trial for coronavirus treatment
The University of Alabama at Birmingham announced that it will take part in an NIH-sponsored global clinical trial to evaluate the safety and efficacy of novel therapeutic agents in hospitalized adult patients diagnosed with COVID-19. The drug remdesivir will be the first agent evaluated in the trial.
Tulane University Featured in NIH Director Francis Collins’ Blog for Work on Collaborative Genomic Study that Points to Natural Origin of COVID-19
“No matter where you go online these days, there’s bound to be discussion of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Some folks are even making outrageous claims that the new coronavirus causing the pandemic was engineered in a lab and deliberately released to make people sick. A new study debunks such claims by providing scientific evidence that this novel coronavirus arose naturally.
Prisma Health collaborates with University of South Carolina on ventilator expansion device
A collaborative effort involving Prisma Health, the University of South Carolina and Clemson University has resulted in emergency use authorization for a ventilator expansion device to support multiple patients during times of acute equipment shortages such as the current COVID-19 pandemic. The effort aims to save lives at a time when the nation may face a critical shortage of ventilators in the near future.
LSU Health Shreveport Establish Emerging Viral Threat (EVT) Laboratory to address the need for faster detection and processing of COVID-19 tests
With the support of Louisiana Governor, John Bel Edwards, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), scientists at LSU Health Shreveport have established the Emerging Viral Threat (EVT) Laboratory to address the need for faster detection and processing of COVID-19 tests. The EVT Lab at LSUHS is the first in North Louisiana approved by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) to conduct and analyze tests to determine if an individual has COVID-19. The EVT Lab is currently in operation and fully staffed as of March 25, 2020.