Monday, March 28, 2022: Life Sciences

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is expected to approve additional COVID-19 booster shots for adults over the age of 50 as early as next week. Once that happens, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will likely make a “permissive recommendation,”...

Monday, March 28, 2022: Payers

The Florida State Agency for Health Care Administration suspended Medicaid and long-term care enrollment in Sunshine State Health Plan, a Centene subsidiary, after a computer glitch led the plan to mistakenly deny medical claims for more than 121,100 lower-income...

Monday, March 28, 2022: Providers

Walmart Inc. will stop selling cigarettes in some stores in California, Florida, Arkansas, and New Mexico after years of internal debate over whether the retailer should sell tobacco products. Walmart supercenters and other mixed retailers accounted for 14 percent of...

Friday, March 25, 2022: Mental Health

A new Kaiser Family Foundation study found that, leading up to the pandemic, nearly 25 percent of U.S. adults in the U.S. reported signs of anxiety or depression. Furthermore, 8.5 million adults who reported moderate to severe symptoms of anxiety and or depression...

Friday, March 25, 2022: D.C. News

Senator Mitt Romney said that he is working with GOP leadership on a COVID-19 funding counterproposal after receiving a new offer from Democrats. He said the proposals contain new ways to pay for the pandemic funding, and that Democrats proposed one set of pay-fors...