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The Adaptive COVID-19 Treatment Trial in EU & UK (ACTT-EU/UK), which is testing treatments for COVID-19, recruited its first patient on 31 March. The trial, which is taking place in around 75 hospitals around the world, will initially test the drug remdesivir. Remdesivir is an antiviral drug that was developed to treat Ebola and Marburg virus infections. In the ACTT-EU/UK ...

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This is according to the results of the Nix-TB trial, which were published today in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Results from the ICON8 trial show that, for women with ovarian cancer, having chemotherapy every week is no better at preventing the cancer coming back or getting worse than having it every three weeks.