by Jordana Choucair | Jan 6, 2022 | Life Sciences
The CDC recommended that adolescents ages 12 to 15 get a booster dose of Pfizer Inc.-BioNTech SE’s COVID-19 vaccine, after an advisory panel voted 13-1 in favor of the guidance. The decision, which applies to 10 million young people, comes as the Omicron variant...
by Jordana Choucair | Jan 6, 2022 | Health IT
International Business Machines Corp. is once again trying to sell IBM Watson Health, which includes a health care data and analytics company and population health and medical imaging businesses. IBM, which failed to attract a buyer for Watson Health last year, aims...
by Jordana Choucair | Jan 5, 2022 | Public Health/Prevention
The CDC updated its shortened isolation guidance for people with COVID-19, saying that they can use a rapid antigen test toward the end of their five-day isolation period if tests are available. If the test is positive, the CDC recommends isolating for a total of 10...
by Jordana Choucair | Jan 5, 2022 | Payers
A report from the HHS Office of Inspector General found that roughly 20 percent of the $8 billion Medicare spent on lab tests in 2020 went toward COVID-19 tests. COVID-19 drove up Medicare’s overall spending on tests by 4 percent from 2019 to 2020, but spending...
by Jordana Choucair | Jan 5, 2022 | M&A
Centene Corporation announced it completed its $2.2 billion acquisition of Magellan Health. The combination will create one of the country’s largest behavioral health platforms, including 41 million unique members. In addition to its behavioral health platform,...
by Jordana Choucair | Jan 5, 2022 | Life Sciences
COVID-19 vaccine partners Pfizer and BioNTech SE are working together to develop an mRNA vaccine for shingles. BioNTech is contributing its proprietary mRNA technology while Pfizer is offering its antigen research. The drugmakers hope their shingles shot will be...
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