Medicaid enrollees continue to get vaccinated against covid at far lower rates than the general population despite vigorous outreach efforts…
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Mandatory Vaccines for Health Care Workers Might Upend Nurses’ Training
Kaitlyn Hevner expects to complete a 15-month accelerated nursing program at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville in December.…
GSK Announces FDA Approval for Nucala (mepolizumab) for use in Adults with Chronic Rhinosinusitis with Nasal Polyps
29 July 2021 — GlaxoSmithKline plc (GSK) today announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Nucala…
Analysis: Necessary or Not, Covid Booster Shots Are Probably on the Horizon
The drugmaker Pfizer recently announced that vaccinated people are likely to need a booster shot to be effectively protected against…
FDA Approves Fexinidazole as the First All-Oral Treatment for Sleeping Sickness
July 19, 2021 — The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved fexinidazole as the first all-oral treatment for…
Biden’s July Executive Order Includes Drug Pricing Provisions. But Will They Do Enough?
President Joe Biden’s executive order of July 9 included various steps toward making good on campaign promises to take on…
Biden Quietly Transforms Medicaid Safety Net
The Biden administration is quietly engineering a series of expansions to Medicaid that may bolster protections for millions of low-income…
FDA Weighs Approval of a Lucrative Alzheimer’s Drug but Benefits Are Iffy
The Food and Drug Administration’s decision next week whether to approve the first treatment for Alzheimer’s disease highlights a deep…
This Small Canadian Drugmaker Wants to Make J&J Vaccines for Poor Nations. It Needs More Than a Patent Waiver.
Biolyse Pharma Corp., which makes a cancer medication, was gearing up to start making generic biologic drugs, made from living…
Cuatro respuestas sobre el freno a la vacuna contra covid de Johnson & Johnson
Cuatro meses después del lanzamiento del plan de inmunización masiva más grande del país en décadas, ha quedado claro que…