Wednesday, June 22, 2022: Providers

CVS announced that it is expanding its Project Health initiative into two new regions and adding four new mobile units in 2022. The provider plans to host more than 1,600 screening events in 45 states and Puerto Rico over the course of this year. The events are hosted...

Tuesday, June 21, 2022: Life Sciences

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended Saturday that children as young as 6 months old receive COVID-19 vaccines developed by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna. The move follows unanimous votes earlier from the CDC’s Advisory Committee on...

Tuesday, June 21, 2022: Life Sciences

fizer agreed to invest $95 million to buy an 8.1 percent percent stake in French vaccines company Valneva. Pfizer and Valneva previously partnered to create a joint Lyme disease program, which is developing a Lyme disease vaccine candidate called VLA15. Valneva is...

Tuesday, June 21, 2022: M&A

A UnitedHealth Group unit plans to acquire EMIS Group – a U.K. health technology company that focuses on primary care and pharmacy systems. UnitedHealth’s Optum UK executives said that the deal, valued at $1.5 billion, will bring more advanced technology...

Tuesday, June 21, 2022: Payers

New research published in the Annals of Internal Medicine found that Medicare could have saved almost $4.0 billion if it were purchasing generic drugs directly from the Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company (MCCPDC) online pharmacy. Specifically, Medicare could have saved...