by Jordana Choucair | Jun 27, 2022 | Life Sciences
Pfizer and BioNTech announced Saturday that updated versions of their COVID-19 vaccines deliver a “substantially higher immune response” against the omicron strain. Monovalent targets omicron alone while bivalent combines monovalent with the companies’ original...
by Jordana Choucair | Jun 27, 2022 | Life Sciences
A federal court ruled late Friday that Juul’s vaping products can stay on the market while the company prepares its full legal challenge to last week’s FDA ban. The company sued the FDA on Thursday after the agency ordered it to shut down all U.S. sales. Juul is also...
by Jordana Choucair | Jun 27, 2022 | Providers
The Supreme Court on Friday ruled that HHS lawfully calculated disproportionate share (DSH) payments to safety-net hospitals. In a 5-4 decision, the majority concluded that Medicare’s system of paying safety-net providers is lawful, which upholds a 2004 regulation...
by Jordana Choucair | Jun 24, 2022 | D.C. News
The Senate passed a roughly $15 billion gun reform bill in a 65-33 vote, with more than half of that funding going toward mental health and school safety programs. The measure includes millions of dollars for mental health, school safety, crisis intervention programs,...
by Jordana Choucair | Jun 24, 2022 | Inequities and SDOH
A new Deloitte analysis predicts that disparate health outcomes could cost the U.S. health care system $1 trillion annually by 2040, nearly tripling in size over the next 20 years and accounting for nearly 12.5 percent of health care spending. According to the...
by Jordana Choucair | Jun 24, 2022 | Inequities and SDOH
The Health Equity Project, in conjunction with Third Horizon Strategies (THS), Pareto, and Algorex, released the final issue brief in a series on social determinants of health (SDOH). The issue brief explores the impacts of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) on...
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