by Jordana Choucair | Jul 13, 2022 | Life Sciences
Merck filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration to avoid potential fines for cutting off 340B contract pharmacies from getting discounted products. In 2021, Merck, along with nearly 20 drugmakers, cut off sales of 340B-discounted drugs to contract pharmacies,...
by Jordana Choucair | Jul 13, 2022 | Opioid/Substance Use Disorders
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. and AbbVie Inc.’s Allergan unit will pay $34 million in cash and $20 million worth of overdose reversal drug Narcan to settle a federal lawsuit brought by San Francisco alleging that the drugmakers fueled the opioid surge,...
by Jordana Choucair | Jul 13, 2022 | Providers
A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) analysis found that superbug infections and deaths in U.S. hospitals jumped approximately 15 percent in 2020. From 2012 to 2017, a public health push to stamp out superbug infections in hospitals resulted in a 30...
by Jordana Choucair | Jul 12, 2022 | D.C. News
The Biden administration reaffirmed that doctors and hospitals need to follow federal law and provide abortions if there is a medical emergency and the health or life of the patient is at risk, regardless of state law. Administration officers noted that the Emergency...
by Jordana Choucair | Jul 12, 2022 | Life Sciences
The federal government announced that it plans to secure an initial 3.2 million doses of Novavax’s COVID-19 vaccine. If the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) grants the vaccine an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA), the government will make the vaccine available for...
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