Biotechnology
Biden to nominate cancer surgeon Monica Bertagnolli to lead National Institutes of Health
Dr. Monica Bertagnolli speaks during a visit from first lady Jill Biden to the University of California San Francisco Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center in San Francisco, Friday, Oct. 7, 2022. Jeff Chiu | AP President Joe Biden will nominate Dr. Monica Bertagnolli, a cancer surgeon, to lead the National Institutes of Health, the […]
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Alzheimer’s treatment Leqembi could cost Medicare up to $5 billion per year, study estimates
The Alzheimer’s drug LEQEMBI is seen in this undated handout image obtained by Reuters on January 20, 2023. Eisai | Reuters The new Alzheimer’s antibody treatment Leqembi could cost Medicare up to $5 billion per year, according to research published in a leading medical journal this week. Medicare would spend about $2 billion per year […]
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Americans in most states will no longer receive Covid exposure notifications on phones
Americans in most states will no longer receive Covid exposure notifications on their smartphones now that the U.S. public health emergency has ended. Since 2020, nearly 30 states have used a Bluetooth system developed by Apple and Google to track the spread of Covid infections and send push alerts to any smartphone user who came […]
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Here’s why Covid vaccines will still be free for uninsured Americans as public health emergency ends
A healthcare worker prepares a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at a vaccination clinic in the Peabody Institute Library in Peabody, Massachusetts, on Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2022. Vanessa Leroy | Bloomberg | Getty Images Uninsured Americans can still access Covid-19 vaccines at no cost, for now, even though the U.S. public health emergency has […]
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Pfizer CEO says Medicare will likely face legal action over drug price negotiations
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla talks during a press conference with European Commission President after a visit to oversee the production of the Pfizer-BioNtech Covid-19 vaccine at the factory of US pharmaceutical company Pfizer, in Puurs, on April 23, 2021. John Thys | AFP | Getty Images Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla on Thursday said pharmaceutical companies […]
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GOP law cut Big Pharma tax rates by 40%, Senate report says
(L-R) Richard A. Gonzalez, chairman and CEO of AbbVie Inc., Pascal Soriot, executive director and CEO of AstraZeneca, Giovanni Caforio, chairman of the board and CEO of Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., Jennifer Taubert, executive vice president and worldwide chairman of Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Johnson & Johnson, Kenneth C. Frazier, chairman and CEO of Merck & Co. Inc., […]
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WHO claims mpox outbreak, the greatest in background, no extended world wide overall health emergency
Pharmacist Uchita Parikh prepares a dose of the Jynneos monkeypox vaccine at a pop-up vaccination clinic opened right now by the Los Angeles County Section of Community Wellbeing at the West Hollywood Library on August 3, 2022 in West Hollywood, California. Mario Tama | Getty Pictures The Globe Wellbeing Firm on Thursday declared an conclude […]
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U.S. Covid public health emergency ends, leaving behind a battered health system
A sign outside of a hospital advertises COVID-19 testing on November 19, 2021 in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images The U.S. public health emergency declared in response to Covid-19 comes to an end Thursday more than three years after the pandemic began. The Biden administration’s decision to end the emergency comes as […]
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Eli Lilly CEO vows not to raise insulin prices again, while Novo Nordisk and Sanofi hedge
Eli Lilly CEO Dave Ricks on Wednesday promised not to raise prices on the company’s existing insulin products again — the only executive to do so before a Senate Health Committee hearing on making the life-saving diabetes drug more affordable. Sen. Bernie Sanders, the committee’s chair, asked Ricks and the CEOs of Novo Nordisk and […]
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FDA advisors recommend sale of birth control pill without a prescription
Opill Oral Contraception Source: Perrigo A panel of experts who advise the Food and Drug Administration unanimously recommended Wednesday that the agency for the first time allow women to obtain a birth control pill without a prescription. The panel had been asked whether the benefits of selling HRA Pharma’s birth control pill Opill outweighed the […]
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