Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY Published 12:49 p.m. ET June 15, 2020 | Updated 6:09 p.m. ET June 15, 2020CLOSE Dr. Raymond Woosley says anti-malarial drugs like chloroquine can cause subtle heart changes and increase a person's risk of developing arrhythmia. USA TODAYWASHINGTON – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration revoked its emergency authorization for hydroxychloroquine, a controversial…
June 15, 2020 | 1:20pm | Updated June 15, 2020 | 4:40pm The Food and Drug Administration on Monday yanked its emergency use authorization for hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for the coronavirus in hospitals, citing a lack of evidence it worked and that the risks outweighed any potential benefits. The agency said the drug, along…
The Food and Drug Administration rescinded the emergency use authorization for hydroxychloroquine to treat hospitalized COVID-19 patients on Monday, saying the drug carries too many risks without any apparent benefit.The authorization was first issued in March, and applied to patients hospitalized with the illness and those in clinical trials. In April, the FDA warned doctors…
HBO Max pulled the Oscar-winning Civil War epic "Gone With the Wind" from its library amid heightened racial tensions following the death of George Floyd.ScreenRant and The Wall Street Journal were the first to report that the newly-launched streaming service yanked the 1939 film, which takes place at an Atlanta plantation. Critics in the modern era have…
President Trump’s threat Friday to involve the military more deeply in the response to looting in Minneapolis pulled the military into a political fray over the issue, but he is unlikely to follow through despite his authority to deploy armed forces, defense officials and national security experts said.The threat came in a pair of tweets…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…