Wednesday, July 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,...

Wednesday, July 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...

Tuesday, July 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...

Tuesday, July 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...

Tuesday, July 12, 2022: Mental Health

A Wall Street Journal analysis of calls to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (Lifeline) between 2016 and 2021 found that one in six ended without reaching a counselor. One-and-a-half million of the 9.2 million calls placed ended either because the caller...