April 28, 2022 – Will this coming summer finally be the moment America’s youngest children are eligible for COVID-19 vaccines?Moderna got the ball rolling today when it asked the FDA to authorize use of its COVID-19 vaccine in children under 6. If the emergency use authorization is granted, it will be the first vaccine available…
March 29, 2022President Joe Biden’s 2023 federal budget proposal, released Monday, calls for nearly $82 billion for the Department of Health and Human Services over five years to prepare for future pandemics.The proposal includes funds for a new biomedical research agency, along with disease forecasting tools, long-COVID research, vaccination programs, and mental health services for the…
A powerful lawmaker wants to give US regulators more tools to compel pharmaceutical companies to complete required clinical trials on medicines cleared by accelerated approvals. At the same time, the new proposed law would provide a smoother pathway for withdrawing these clearances in the rare instances where additional studies fail to confirm a medicine’s expected…
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres also called for the release of nearly $9 billion in frozen assets to pull Afghanistan’s economy back from the brink of a collapse…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The European drug regulator said Monday it has started evaluating an application by Pfizer for its pill to treat the effects of COVID-19. The announcement comes as countries in much of the 27-nation bloc are reporting soaring numbers of infections as the highly transmissible omicron variant sweeps across the continent. The…
Jan. 7, 2022 — The Biden administration said this week it intends to challenge insurance companies to deliver better service to people enrolled in Medicare, including applying discounts on drugs covered by Part D more directly to their pharmacy costs.The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on Thursday unveiled a 360-page proposed rule that…
Hwy 55, a small-town Americana burger chain based in eastern North Carolina, is growing up. The post Hwy 55 Seeks Operating Partners for Stand-Alone Stores; 20 Planned for 2021-22 first appeared on RestaurantNews.com…
