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EU evaluating arthritis drug to treat COVID-19

The interleukin-1 receptor antagonist may reduce cytokine storm, according to the European Medicines Agency
Reuters Health
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29 July 2021
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Europe’s medicines regulator is evaluating an application to use anakinra to treat COVID-19 in adults with pneumonia who are at risk of severe respiratory failure, the agency has announced.

Anakinra is the latest potential COVID-19 treatment to be reviewed by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) as the more infectious Delta variant of the coronavirus spurs an increase in cases.

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