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In an amazing first, an artillery cannon took out a cruise missile.An M109 Paladin 155 mm howitzer made history recently by shooting down a fast-moving maneuvering cruise missile with a “hypervelocity projectile” able to travel at speeds up to Mach 5, according to an Air Force announcement. Historically, armored vehicles such as tanks, howitzers or…

There are currently a number of treatments available for patients hospitalised with COVID-19 [File: Tolga Akmen/AFP] An aerosol-based drug treatment could drastically reduce the number of new coronavirus patients dying from the disease or requiring intensive care, according to preliminary results released by a British biotech firm. In a randomised trial of 100 patients admitted…

That study about dexamethasone has arrived with a big asterisk: While it appears to help severely ill patients, it harms others.The steroid dexamethasone is cheap and easily obtained, but experts warned that people with mild illness — or no illness — should not take it. Credit...Andy Rain/EPA, via ShutterstockJune 24, 2020, 7:26 p.m. ETScientists in Britain…

In a possible breakthrough, an Israeli Defense Ministry-run laboratory claimed it had completed successful coronavirus vaccine trials on rodents, paving the way to further testing on other animals and then possibly human trials. In a paper published Friday on the website of bioRxiv, an online repository for papers that haven’t yet been peer-reviewed, the Israel…

The new potential coronavirus treatment dexamethasone is a "good first step" to finding a cocktail of drugs that can effectively treat Covid-19, Oxford University professor Martin Landray, who co-led the study that found the drug to improve survival among patients, told CNBC on Tuesday.Landray and his team earlier Tuesday published the results of a study, which has…