The elderly man was given the drug remdesivir after being hospitalised on March 7 and has now recovered and been allowed to go home. The drug has also shown good results in the US.

On Thursday, 4,940 new cases were reported across the U.S., according to a DailyMail.com analysis of publicly available data. That is more daily new cases than China ever had.

The trial, called Discovery, includes 3,200 patients who have been hospitalised from the killer virus in the UK, Spain, Germany, France, Sweden and Luxembourg.

Dr. Craig Spencer is the Director of Global Health in Emergency Medicine at Columbia Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. He previously treated ebola patients in Africa.

Former Vice President Joe Biden debuted his new podcast from his Delaware home, interviewing former White House aide Ron Klain, who has bashed the Trump administration's coronavirus response.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at NIH, has emerged as the most trusted public official during the coronavirus outbreak.

The move has seen gorilla tourism in Africa suspended for present and the closure of sanctuaries for other apes - including orangutans, which are also endangered.

Melinda Gates says the world will be permanently changed by the coronavirus. Gates said she believes it will take 18 months for a vaccine to become available.

More than half of a group of severely ill COVID-19 patients improved after receiving Gilead's experimental drug remdesivir, doctors reported.

Gilead Sciences announced Wednesday that more than half of the 397 severely ill coronavirus patients it treated with the antiviral Ebola drug Remdesivir were discharged from hospitals.

In an interview with Good Morning America on Thursday, Dr. Aneesh Mehta of Emory University Medical School - one of the institutions which took part in the study - spoke of its success.

Shinzo Abe said on Monday he wanted the drug approved for use against COVID-19 by the end of the month despite conceding it had side effects which caused birth defects.

After 22 years, my husband has told me our marriage is over. He says that there is no one else but that my bullying and controlling nature have killed his love for me

My husband doesn't want me to look after my granddaughter  

Capricorn 22 DEC-20 JAN What you achieve in the days ahead will be due to meticulous planning, attention to detail and total faith in your abilities.

Our eldest daughter is a lesbian and is moving in with her girlfriend, and I am dreading telling my parents.I'm scared they will reject her

My girlfriend wants us to settle down… but I'm not sure 

We haven't had sex for 25 years 

I'm the only one who knows about my father's affair

I love my husband but I hate having sex with him  

Their bitter divorce is affecting the children

Why does my bitter mother blame me for everything?   

He's lied: can I ever trust him?     

Did my ex use me for sex? 

She's 35 but still acts like a child  

Can we be friends… and have sex?   

I had no idea that my wife fancies other women

Why won't my children forgive me?      

He wants to find his birth father   

Why does my son refuse to see me?    

I want to leave my husband but have nowhere to go

I flirted with my friend's husband and now she won't speak to me    

The villain is a manmade chemical smog of air pollutants, mainly from traffic, which means that city dwellers are wearing a mantle of pollution on their skin

More than 21,000 women are diagnosed with a form of gynaecological cancer each year in the UK and 21 women will die each day as a result. But only one in seven women can name a single type

Come spring, the first thing that patients see as they walk into the College Surgery in Cullompton, Devon, are the green shoots of a raised-bed vegetable garden beside a physic garden

The Pioppi Diet by cardiologist Dr Aseem Malhotra is based on the food of a particularly healthy district in Italy

I visited a Singing for the Brain group where people with dementia are lured out of an often silent world by the power of song.

My teenage daughter has mood swings with tearfulness and irritability, as well as bloating and breast tenderness before her period. Could it be premenstrual syndrome? Our GP is dismissive.

I would like to find an all-round natural supplement. A friend mentioned she takes an adaptogen: what are they, and how do I choose one for my over-busy lifestyle?

Prime Minister Theresa May seems to be managing her type 1 diabetes well, in part due to new wearable technology in the form of glucose-tracking body sensors

Father’s Day is a poignant time for Jack, a 48-year-old writer and one of the estimated 200,000 single fathers in the UK. ‘Every day is father’s day in a way,’ he says

Lyme disease has seriously affected several people I know and I urge you to be alert. This infectious disease is usually due to being bitten by a tick infected with a bacterium.

Recently, I found myself sitting at a long kitchen table in a building near Chester being served an impeccably healthy Mediterranean-type feast by top chef Neil Nugent.

Health experts agree that obesity is the biggest health concern for the NHS, with a staggering 57 per cent of women and 67 per cent of men overweight. And sugar is the number-one villain.

With schools breaking up shortly, prep for holiday health with the St John Ambulance Universal Plus First Aid Kit – everything you need for common accidents

I’m taking my young children on a beach holiday and wonder whether sun products claiming six- to eight-hour protection are reliable?

My health visitor advises breastfeeding my baby, my first, for a full six months. Is it safe to introduce solids even though the health visitor recommends against it?

My partner has discovered moisturiser (quite late in life) and now wants one with an SPF as he spends a lot of time outdoors. What are the best options – which I might use as well?

Time was when we would all have been making something: knitting, sewing, painting, quilting, woodwork, pressing wild flowers, writing a journal, making pots or baskets, mending everything.

Mother of four Jennifer Irvine is ‘obsessed with longevity’. Given that she’s only 42 and a picture of blooming, bouncing health, that seems a tad premature