Could an over-the-counter heartburn medication ease COVID-19 symptoms? What a small study found:
"A clinical trial is now needed to formally test if famotidine works against COVID-19," said lead researcher Dr. Tobias Janowitz, a medical oncologist and cancer researcher with Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York.
"These are mild cases and mild cases do get better over time, so these cases have to be compared to placebo in order to see if this was actually just the natural course of infection or the famotidine," Adalja explained.medication that works by decreasing the amount of acid the stomach produces. The group in the study included six men and four women ranging in age from 23 to 71. They came from a diverse range of ethnic backgrounds, and most had chronic health conditions that increase a person's risk of severe COVID-19.
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