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A scientist’s opinion : Interview with Dr Juan Victor San-Martin Lopez about covid-19 treatment
Interview with Dr Juan Victor San-Martín López, a physician specialising in infectious diseases and a member of the task force coordinating responses to the leishmaniasis outbreak in 2011 and to COVID-19 at the Hospital Universitario de Fuenlabrada, Spain. He reports on his experience with tocilizumab... -
The key role of antivirals in COVID-19 treatment (remdesivir)
A few weeks after the SARS-CoV-2 was identified by Chinese researchers as the cause of ‘COVID-19’, an antiviral called remdesivir, originally used during the 2014 Ebola outbreak, came into play as the first available option to treat patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Even if the approval...
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A scientist’s opinion : Interview with Prof Martijn van Hemert about covid-19 treatment
Interview with Martijn van Hemert, Associate professor and Principal Investigator in molecular virology and antiviral strategies at the Leiden University Medical Center. In recent years, his group has mainly been studying the Chikungunya and Zika viruses, but in the past he has also studied SARS-CoV.... -
A scientist’s opinion : Interview with Dr Juan Pablo Horcajada about covid-19 treatment
Interview with Juan Pablo Horcajada, MD. is Head of the Department of Infectious Diseases and General Coordinator of the COVID-19 Service at the Hospital del Mar, Barcelona. Remdesivir is the first drug approved by the EMA to be used as part of the treatment of COVID-19 patients. How’s the use of... -
ESMH Press Review – October 7, 2020
Conspiracy theoris, Green Deal & research integrity: check out the ESMH selection of 16 science & tech news published in the last weeks on the web. Pick your favourite from the most popular topics in the mainstream media!
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What drives public trust in science-based policies? Ask PEriTiA
A multinational EU research project will review the role of science in policy decision-making using climate change as a proxy with the aim of establishing public trust. We live in complex times. Times when the opinion of uninformed sources in social media seems to have a stronger influence than expert... -
Covid-19: Harnessing the power of digital technologies and data sharing
Digital technologies and data-driven science offer solutions to control and mitigate the effects of Covid-19 on health and the economy. What is at stake for Europe?
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A scientist’s opinion : Interview with Dr Marike Kolossa-Gehring about Human Biomonitoring
Human Biomonitoring, a scientist’s opinion Interview with Dr Marike Kolossa-Gehring, biologist and toxicologist and got her PhD from the Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Germany. What is the HBM4EU mission and priorities? Marike Kolossa-Gehring: The mission of HBM4EU is to protect people...