by Jordana Choucair | Mar 23, 2022 | Life Sciences
AstraZeneca announced it has invested roughly $33 million in Huma, a U.K.-based medical technology start-up, as part of a broader commercial partnership between the two firms. The move will enable Huma, which develops remote patient monitoring systems, to expand...
by Jordana Choucair | Mar 23, 2022 | Providers
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) will hold a public hearing April 29 about its emergency temporary standard to protect health care workers from workplace exposure to COVID-19. The temporary standard required health care providers to provide...
by Jordana Choucair | Mar 23, 2022 | Providers
Johnson & Johnson (J&J) notified its customers that effective May 2 it will no longer offer 340B-discounted products to contract pharmacies. J&J said the decision is based on a desire to cut off any duplicative discounts or diversion, noting that “the...
by Jordana Choucair | Mar 22, 2022 | D.C. News
The White House again urged Congress to allocate $22.5 billion in supplemental COVID-19 aid without offsets. According to the administration, it has about $300 billion in unspent COVID-19 funding, of which $240 billion is fully and publicly allocated, including $105...
by Jordana Choucair | Mar 22, 2022 | Inequities and SDOH
Liz Fowler, director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI), said health care organizations participating in new value-based payment models will be required to create health equity plans outlining how they will serve underserved patients and curb...
by Jordana Choucair | Mar 22, 2022 | Life Sciences
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is ramping up in-person inspections of drug and device manufacturing facilities that were delayed during the pandemic. The FDA said it plans to return to a “normal cadence” next month for inspections overseas, where...
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