You woke up with an unsightly cold sore — but hiding out at home isn’t an option. What can you do? First, you’re not alone.

Cold sores require an antiviral medication, like an antiviral ointment, to help shorten the duration of the cold sore and prevent it from spreading. If you load spot treatments and salicylic acid ...

An antiviral drug tested by more than 25,000 vaccinated Covid patients has been found to reduce recovery time from the disease. Molnupiravir was given to people twice a day, for five days at home ...

Atea Pharmaceuticals’ antiviral has failed another COVID-19 trial, but the biotech still holds out hope the candidate has a future in hepatitis C. The oral nucleotide polymerase inhibitor ...

Recently, a randomized, placebo-controlled trial was conducted in the DRC to test the effectiveness of the antiviral drug tecovirimat against the monkeypox virus. The findings suggest that the ...

NEW YORK — Sixteen floors above Central Park, Kris White keeps his gentler pathogens behind an unlocked stainless steel freezer door, in brightly colored boxes caked with frost. There’s an ...

Healthcare professionals may sometimes prescribe an antibiotic ointment or eye drops for people ... Treatment options for ocular herpes can include using antiviral eye drops or pills and steroid ...

When my eczema flares up, my preferred treatment is the greasiest ointment I can find. Some serious cases of eczema will require prescription treatments, but other patients can get by with an over ...

What have been the guiding principles in these achievements and what might the future hold for antiviral drug development? In the late 1970s, the discovery that acyclic nucleoside analogues ...

Compr Ophthalmol Update. 2005;6(2):85-101. Antimicrobial medications for conjunctivitis are typically given as one drop (or one-half inch of ointment) four times daily for 5-7 days. Ointments have ...