by Jordana Choucair | Mar 1, 2022 | D.C. News
Top Democratic and Republican senators will hold meetings with Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Biden’s nominee to the Supreme Court, tomorrow. Democrats are hoping for a swift, bipartisan confirmation process. Biden officially nominated Jackson to the...
by Jordana Choucair | Mar 1, 2022 | Life Sciences
A large new dataset indicates that Pfizer Inc.-BioNTech SE’s COVID-19 vaccine is much less effective for children ages 5 to 11 than it is for older people. According to researchers and federal officials who reviewed the data, the drop in performance may be...
by Jordana Choucair | Mar 1, 2022 | Life Sciences
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office ruled that the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard owns the rights to the genome editing technology CRISPR. The decision invalidates patent rights UC Berkeley granted gene-editing companies developing human therapies. It also means...
by Jordana Choucair | Mar 1, 2022 | Opioid/Substance Use Disorders
Lawyers for two doctors convicted of illegal opioid prescribing will ask the Supreme Court to overturn the doctors’ convictions and establish a standard that allows doctors to raise a “good faith” defense. Juries could then consider whether doctors...
by Jordana Choucair | Mar 1, 2022 | Payers
Cigna announced it plans to invest $450 million in its venture capital arm as part of its strategy to increase the company’s shareholder value and deliver long-term growth. The company will focus on contributing to bolt-on or tuck-in acquisitions along with...
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