A French doctor who popularized the now-discredited hydroxychloroquine treatment for COVID-19 is under fire for an alleged pattern of unauthorized experiments on homeless people. Didier Raoult, a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Alex Ledsom is a France-based contributor who covers travel. The results from two new drug trials have failed to find evidence ...

The medication hydroxychloroquine was touted by right-wing media figures and others as an effective treatment for covid-19. Research later showed it was not and could even pose harmful side effects ...

The study by Didier Raoult et. al., the one partly responsible for the massive, unwarranted use of hydroxychloroquine for COVID, has been picked to bits by a review panel hired by the journal that ...

A discredited study that set off a flurry of interest in using an antimalarial drug to treat COVID-19 has now been formally withdrawn. A scientific journal on Tuesday retracted the March 2020 study ...

He emailed two senior advisers, asking to push for the drug before clinical trials were complete. Clinical studies said the drug, hydroxychloroquine, is not effective as a COVID-19 treatment. Recently ...

More than six months have passed since the president first tweeted about hydroxychloroquine as a potential treatment for Covid-19. Since then, some studies have claimed that it works, and others not.

French microbiologist Dr. Didier Raoult, who published a now-discredited paper in March 2020 claiming that hydroxychloroquine was effective at treating COVID-19, has threatened legal action against ...

FILE - In this Thursday, April 9, 2020 file photo, a chemist displays hydroxychloroquine tablets in New Delhi, India. Scientists in Brazil have stopped part of a study of the malaria drug touted as a ...

President Trump turned to a French virologist with a history of criticizing climate science when offering the world hope about an unproven treatment for COVID-19. President Trump has turned to a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Alex Ledsom is a France-based contributor who covers travel. The battle over the ability to use hydroxychloroquine as a way of ...

The French news website Médiapart has published information from French health authorities implicating the medical researcher based in Marseille, Didier Raoult. According to Médiapart, Raoult ...