NEW YORK (AP) — Mask rules, vaccination mandates and business shutdowns have all landed in the courts during the COVID-19 outbreak, confronting judges with questions of science and government authority. Now they are increasingly being asked to weigh in on the deworming drug ivermectin. At least two dozen lawsuits have […]
Hi. I’m Art Caplan at the Division of Medical Ethics at the New York University Grossman School of Medicine. I’ve been tracking — with some amazement, anger, and upset — the outbreak of interest in using ivermectin, a deworming medicine made by Merck, as a treatment for COVID-19. Very recently, […]
More hospitals see lawsuits from family members of COVID-19 patients seeking the drug. As hospitals continue to admit COVID-19 patients, some are contending with demands from family members to attempt to treat their loved ones with ivermectin. Just last week, the CDC warned healthcare professionals to steer patients away from the […]
Welcome to Impact Factor, your weekly dose of commentary on a new medical study. I’m Dr F. Perry Wilson of the Yale School of Medicine. This week, it’s time we talk about ivermectin. Since the first days of the COVID-19 pandemic, various existing drugs have been touted as near miracle cures for […]
A 68-year-old woman with COVID-19, who has been in intensive care in an Illinois hospital for a month, started receiving the controversial drug ivermectin (Stromectol) this week after her family sued the hospital to have someone administer it, according to a report in the Chicago Tribune. Nurije Fype’s daughter, Desareta, filed suit against […]
