Duke University leading national study to assess effectiveness of Ivermectin

[mnhtnbb]

as a treatment for COVID-19.

This was the above the fold front page article in the Raleigh News & Observer this morning.

Doctors at Duke University are leading a national study to test whether three drugs will effectively treat COVID-19, including one that has generated controversy for more than a year. Ivermectin’s potential to treat COVID-19 has been both celebrated and ridiculed. Some consider it a miracle drug that makes vaccination against the coronavirus unnecessary. But most in the medical establishment, including government regulators, say there’s not enough proof that it works and warn that self-medicating with ivermectin can make people sick in other ways. The Duke study, launched last summer, is the kind of comprehensive assessment of ivermectin’s ability to combat COVID-19 that has been missing up to now, said Dr. Adrian Hernandez, one of the study’s leaders.

Ivermectin is one of three drugs that Duke is testing under ACTIV-6, one of a series of studies of potential COVID-19 treatments and vaccines launched by the National Institutes of Health.

The two other drugs being tested in the ACTIV-6 study are fluvoxamine, used to treat obsessive-compulsive disorder and depression, and fluticasone furoate, an inhaler medicine prescribed for asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or COPD.

Researchers are looking for evidence that the drugs either shorten the time people feel sick or prevent them from getting worse and needing to be hospitalized.

For information about the ACTIV-6 study, go to activ6study.org/.

Read more at: https://www.newsobserver.com/news/coronavirus/article257483164.html#storylink=cpy

[gab13by13]

1. If horse paste worked,

my guess, it was because of the placebo effect.

[live love laugh]

2. 😂😂😂

[Ford_Prefect]

3. We're only it for the Reseach $$$$ Grant MONEY. That is the whole purpose of Duke University.

They perform no other function except educate conservative law students and to field a national contender college basketball team. I say this as a 36 year resident of North Carolina and friend to a number of Duke faculty.

[mnhtnbb]

8. My next door neighbor is an endocrinologist at Duke

and my neighbor across the street is a rheumatologist at Duke. I'm surrounded!

Me? I'm a proud Mom of a Carolina grad. Go Heels!

[Ford_Prefect]

10. As it happens I AM a Carolina Grad, class of '94.

That doesn't change my opinion of Duke. I spent time at all 3 triangle schools in different capacities.

FWIW: I doubt they are expecting to to prove specifics about any of the "treatments". It is more likely that one of the Health Insurance companies is looking for just enough science to avoid having to pay for them in practice.

[mnhtnbb]

12. It's part of a series of NIH studies

investigating better treatments for patients with Covid-19

https://www.nih.gov/research-training/medical-research-initiatives/activ/covid-19-therapeutics-prioritized-testing-clinical-trials


I'm not a fan of medical care at Duke and spent my professional life in hospital administration. I have a master's degree in public health and despite being retired from the field for many years, maintain an interest in all aspects of health care.

[nolabear]

13. My husband is a Duke grad and I worked there for years. That's bs

I worked in oncology research as a lab tech and in the hospital in a clinical research ward that pioneered work on immune disorders. I knew a researcher who did such pioneering work on Alzheimer’s that the name for it was new. My husband was in computers when they used cards. He’s gone on to be a leader in a company whose software is used in everything you own.

My brother in law went to the law school and has done amazing work, including getting justice for poor farmers whose valuable land was bought for pittance by a company who mined the incredibly valuable clay they knew was there. I know many people who went on into biomedical research that has saved COUNTLESS lives.

[Ford_Prefect]

24. It would seem there are 2 sides to Duke University, much as there are with other institutions.

I have seen both in action but the part I'm referring to is the structural system by which DUKE contrives to consume a great deal of research money. It is also well known.

I know that many who graduated from Duke have contributed to our society and culture. I am not complaining about those people. My remarks were directed to the dominant feature of DUKE research finances.

A while back some bright spark decided that DUKE needed to get into research into ADHD because there was money to be made doing so, primarily from companies like Pfizer. At that time there was over 20 years of good solid research into the field. So DUKE came late to the party and sucked up the research grants. This suited Big Pharma.

[melm00se]

4. This is what science does

remember this from any number of history classes: Age of Reason aka the Enlightenment?

[Scrivener7]

5. Oh, Lord. Again??

[ProfessorGAC]

6. Why Release This?

The only value of such a study is the results.
When the study is done, the data is analyzed, the conclusions have been reviewed, then release the info.
Bragging about it before then is pointless.

[mnhtnbb]

7. They are still recruiting people for the study.

https://activ6study.org/

[ProfessorGAC]

25. So A Press Release Is Needed?

Still seems unnecessary.
They can get volunteers without a mass media pitch.

[samnsara]

9. these so called cures were randomly pulled out of someones ass..not even worthy of study.

[mnhtnbb]

11. You might want to check out the other studies as well

https://www.nih.gov/research-training/medical-research-initiatives/activ/covid-19-therapeutics-prioritized-testing-clinical-trials

[nolabear]

14. Good! The actual science needs to be put there and touted.

Why anyone would oppose that is beyond me.

[mnhtnbb]

16. We have our share of Holiday Inn experts on DU.

[nolabear]

17. Lord knows.

[MissMillie]

22. Can't say "aye" or "nay" without looking into it

But I certainly wouldn't sign up to be in that study.

[L. Coyote]

15. What about drinking urine?

[lagomorph777]

18. What an embarrassment to the University. Their accreditation should be downgraded.

[Sympthsical]

19. If they want to look, they should look

As long as they follow the scientific method for medical studies, I have nothing against this.

If ivermectin does jack and shit in the study, well, then we just have another arrow in our quiver against misinformation.

[mnhtnbb]

20. The master protocol for the study may be accessed

here: https://fnih.org/our-programs/activ/therapeutics

It's ACTIV-6.

[Sympthsical]

23. So this will be non-hospitalized patients and people without natural immunity

All right. We'll see.

I doubt it does anything, but this is why we have science. Maybe people are wrong about it. Probably not, but never hurts to test.

[LastDemocratInSC]

21. I know what obsessive / compulsive disorder is.

It's when someone gets stuck on some notion or idea and just starts going on and on about it, including repetitive physical actions that they just can't stop, well maybe they can if they're asleep, but when they wake up it's back to the same old same old jabbering about that notion or idea that they're stuck on and just can't let go like it's carved in stone or immutable and unstoppable and is only relieved but yakking about it and doing repetitive things over and over as if it will make them feel better about that thing that they can't ignore when they're stuck on it.

That's what obsessive / compulsive disorder is.