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Ivermectin continues to be the new hydroxychloroquine, an unproven repurposed drug promoted to treat COVID-19
” Although based on previous, evolving standards of clinical trial designs, statistics, epidemiological methods and other pertinent tools, EBM is a semi-formal movement within modern medicine that has existed for fewer than 20 years; it comprises
Bhattacharya links to a graph that shows the percent deviation of the actual weekly death rate from the death rate that would be expected based on historical experience (so-called “p-scores”)
President Trump expressed early support of hydroxychloroquine based on the initial small and flawed observational studies
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now report in the Journal the results of a randomized trial testing hydroxychloroquine as postexposure prophylaxis for Covid-19
However, just because evidence exists does not make it good evidence or scientific fact
Retinal toxicity from hydroxychloroquine is rare, but even if the medication is discontinued, vision loss may be irreversible and may continue to progress
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Toward the end of the meeting, Hahn began a discussion of the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine, which Trump believes could be a “game-changer” against the coronavirus
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Scott Gavura, BScPhm, MBA, RPh is committed to improving the way medications are used, and examining the profession of pharmacy through the lens of science-based medicine
Correspondence from The New England Journal of Medicine — Hydroxychloroquine in Hospitalized Patients with Covid-19 Science 2020;369 benefit