Swiss giant Novartis halts Covid-19 hydroxychloroquine study

Pharmaceutical company cites problems in recruiting enough patients for the controversial drug. FMTNews Novartis Covid19

GENEVA: Swiss pharmaceuticals giant Novartis has decided to halt a clinical trial of hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for Covid-19, citing problems in recruiting enough patients for the study of the controversial drug.

This problem “made it unlikely that the clinical team will be able to collect meaningful data in a reasonable timeframe,” it said.Hydroxychloroquine and its related compound chloroquine have traditionally been used to treat malaria and with a known anti-viral potential was seen as a possible treatment in the early days of the pandemic.

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