by Jordana Choucair | Apr 6, 2022 | Life Sciences
Advisors to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will start to develop a long-term strategy for COVID-19 vaccinations. The discussion is expected to include the viability of an annual COVID-19 vaccine, which would require scientific models to predict how COVID-19...
by Jordana Choucair | Apr 6, 2022 | M&A
UnitedHealth Group Inc.’s Optum business and health tech company Change Healthcare delayed their planned merger until the end of the year, ahead of an August trial to determine whether the deal can go forward. The companies said they would contest the...
by Jordana Choucair | Apr 6, 2022 | Payers
A recent Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) poll revealed that most Americans remain concerned about out-of-pocket costs and the quality of long-term care. According to the poll, 61 percent of the public, regardless of partisanship, wants lawmakers to limit how much drug...
by Jordana Choucair | Apr 5, 2022 | D.C. News
President Biden is set to announce regulatory changes to Affordable Care Act (ACA) rules that could help hundreds of thousands more Americans gain coverage and more than a million spend less on premiums. The administration plans to change the definition of...
by Jordana Choucair | Apr 5, 2022 | D.C. News
The Senate voted 53-47 to advance U.S. Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation. After the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 11-11, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer called for a vote to break the deadlock and send her nomination to the floor....
by Jordana Choucair | Apr 5, 2022 | D.C. News
Senate negotiators announced a deal on a $10 billion COVID-19 preparedness funding package. All $10 billion of the funding goes to agencies within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and is offset by unspent COVID-19 aid funds. The Biomedical Advanced...
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