Hydroxychloroquine is prescribed for autoimmune diseases, such as arthritis and lupus. It can also be used to prevent or treat malaria, according to the Mayo Clinic. It's available in the U.S. by ...

The FDA on Friday issued a warning against the widespread use of hydroxychloroquine, an antimalaria drug that President Trump repeatedly touted as a potential treatment for COVID-19. The warning comes ...

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. Vice President Mike Pence said Tuesday that “the FDA [Food and Drug Administration] is approving off-label ...

Due to the coronavirus (COVID-19), people who have been prescribed hydroxychloroquine (Plaquenil) and chloroquine (Aralen) to treat their lupus and other autoimmune diseases are experiencing ...

Sue Hauk has 12 days before her body starts to shut down. At least, that’s what happened last time she went off Plaquenil, the drug she takes each day as a treatment for lupus. Hauk, 48, is no ...

When Aimee Blou heard the lupus drug she has relied on for more than a decade promoted as a coronavirus antidote, she visited her pharmacist. The 40-year-old woman from Stockton, California, was told ...

ROSLYN, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) - One New York doctor claims to have kept hundreds of coronavirus patients out of the hospital with a cocktail of medications. It's been criticized as unproven, but now a ...

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. A study of hospitalized coronavirus patients who were treated with hydroxychloroquine – the drug President ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sai writes about healthcare, innovation and technology. What Are The Side Effects: Though hydroxychloroquine may be effective, it ...

An old malaria medicine, hydroxychloroquine, has gone viral on the internet. But is it really an antiviral drug? The medicine has been seen as a potential treatment for Covid-19, the disease caused by ...

The World Health Organization says it is temporarily halting its clinical trials that use hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19 patients over published concerns that the drug may do more harm than good ...

As the world’s heath experts race to find treatments – and eventually, a cure – for the novel coronavirus, two drugs have jumped to the front of the conversation: chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine.