Category: Famotidine

Potential Prophylactic Treatments for COVID-19

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Noam Ben-Zuk,1,† Ido-David Dechtman,2,3,† Itai Henn,1 Libby Weiss,1 Amichay Afriat,4 Esther Krasner,1,* and Yoav Gal1,5,*Kenneth Lundstrom, Academic Editor and Alaa A. A. Aljabali, Academic Editor Viruses. 2021 Jul; 13(7): 1292. Published online 2021 Jul 2. doi: 10.3390/v13071292 PMCID: PMC8310088 PMID: 34372498 Abstract The World Health Organization declared the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern at the end of January 2020 and a pandemic two months later. The […]

Famotidine clinical trial shows COVID-19 symptom reduction

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Authors:  Dagnia Zeidlickis, Vice President, Communications | zeidlick@cshl.edu | 516-367-8455 A high dose of famotidine, commonly known as Pepcid®, was found to have beneficial effects in adult patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), according to results of an outpatient clinical trial. Patients who took famotidine in this trial experienced a decrease of inflammation within the body and reported earlier […]