Tuesday, February 1, 2022: Life Sciences

Pfizer and BioNTech are expected to soon ask the FDA to grant an emergency use authorization for their two-dose vaccine that can be administered to children under the age of five. According to sources familiar with the matter, the FDA urged the companies to submit...

Tuesday, February 1, 2022: Life Sciences

The FDA granted Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine full approval for use in people aged 18 and older. The vaccine, named Spikevax, is the second COVID-19 vaccine to receive full approval from the FDA, behind Pfizer’s Comirnaty vaccine. There’s no difference between the...

Tuesday, February 1, 2022: Providers

Kaufman Hall’s latest monthly report found that hospitals performed better in 2021, although the industry is “still performing well below 2019” in regard to margins and volumes. According to the report, hospitals’ median change in operating margin for the full year of...

Monday, January 31, 2022: D.C. News

Senators Patty Murray and Richard Burr are seeking a speedy path forward for their pandemic preparedness bill. Advocates close to the discussions say that it could be tied to other proposals on biomedical research that are in the mix, or that parts of the plan could...