Some analysts said not much could be learned from partial results at one hospital, and from a set of patients whose progress wasn’t compared with a control group
An encouraging news report about an experimental drug being developed by Gilead Sciences Inc. for Covid-19 led shares of the drugmaker to jump nearly 8% in trading Friday and helped to spur gains in the total market.
A doctor in Chicago told colleagues that Gilead’s drug remdesivir appeared to help many patients enrolled in a clinical trial site at the University of Chicago Medicine hospital, according to a news report in online health publication STAT, which cited a video of the remarks. The doctor said that the hospital...
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