Archive: 08/08/2020

Schools face big virus test as students return to classroom

Reopening schools is easy. Keeping them open will be the hard part.

Aug 8, 2020

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Paris makes masks mandatory as virus toll crosses 722,000

Paris on Saturday made face masks compulsory outdoors in crowded areas and tourist hotspots, as infections in and around the French capital rose and the global death toll crept past 722,000.

Aug 8, 2020

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South Africa coronavirus deaths top 10,000: government

More than 10,000 people have died from coronavirus in South Africa since the pandemic arrived in the country in March, the health ministry said Saturday.

Aug 8, 2020

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Brazil near 100,000 deaths from COVID-19

Brazil was leaping toward a grim milestone of 100,000 deaths from COVID-19 on Saturday, and five months after the first reported case the country has not shown signs of crushing the disease.

Aug 8, 2020

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CheckMate 743 shows that dual immunotherapy, nivolumab + ipilimumab

The combination of first-line nivolumab and ipilimumab demonstrated an improvement of overall survival for patients with unresectable malignant pleural mesothelioma compared to platinum-based chemotherapy, according to research ...

Aug 8, 2020

Phase 3 eXalt3 study shows significantly longer progression-free survival

Patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) carrying anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) gene alterations who received ensartinib experienced substantially longer progression-free survival than a matched group of patients ...

Aug 8, 2020

Addition of sintilimab to pemetrexed and platinum improved progression-free survival

The interim analysis of ORIENT-11, a phase III double-blind randomized trial has shown a nearly two-fold increase in progression-free survival with addition of sintilimab to chemotherapy in patients with advanced or metastatic ...

Aug 8, 2020