by Jordana Choucair | Jun 7, 2022 | Public Health/Prevention
Leading Republican senators involved in gun talks on Capitol Hill have signaled that it’s unlikely Congress will raise the age requirement for purchasing semi-automatic firearms from 18 to 21. Senators John Cornyn and Thom Tillis both said proposals to ban...
by Jordana Choucair | Jun 6, 2022 | Life Sciences
Prime Therapeutics released a new study suggesting that using a medically-integrated dispensing (MID) model could yield significant savings.Under a MID model, care providers have access to prescribing history, test results, and other patient history in the electronic...
by Jordana Choucair | Jun 6, 2022 | Life Sciences
Abbott Nutrition announced on Saturday that it will resume producing infant formula at its Michigan facility. Abbott said in a statement that initial requirements of the consent agreement it reached with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last month had been met,...
by Jordana Choucair | Jun 6, 2022 | Public Health/Prevention
• Health policy experts say that the CDC and FDA aren’t the only federal institutions that have bureaucratic and cultural issues that slowed America’s pandemic response; the National Institutes of Health needs a critical look. Of the 40 published clinic trials...
by Jordana Choucair | Jun 6, 2022 | Payers
A New York Times article examines the impact that debt has on older Americans’ health. The article references research being conducted at the Urban Institute, which found that that indebted older adults fare measurably worse on a range of health measures: fair or poor...
by Jordana Choucair | Jun 6, 2022 | Public Health/Prevention
The Biden administration has distributed 1,200 monkeypox vaccine doses for people who have had high-risk exposures to the virus as part of a nationwide effort to prevent a major outbreak. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there have...
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