Rising COVID-19 cases are driving up the use of therapeutics, with Pfizer Inc.’s oral antiviral treatment Paxlovid seeing a 315 percent jump over the past four weeks, U.S. health officials said on May 17.
U.S. to scrap ‘conscience’ rule for healthcare workers, Politico reports
Abortion, Clinics, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Healthcare Physicians, Healthcare Policy, Healthcare Practitioners, Healthcare Professionals, Healthcare Providers, Healthcare Services, Hospitals, Joe Biden, Policy, Politico, Primary Care Clinics, R&D, Reproductive Health, Urgen Care CentersPresident Joe Biden’s administration plans to rescind a rule devised under his predecessor Donald Trump that was intended to make it easier for healthcare providers including doctors and nurses to avoid performing abortions or other medical services on religious or moral grounds, Politico reported on April 19.
Biden launches U.S. plan to help Americans struggling with long COVID
“Long-Haul” COVID-19, Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Healthcare Policy, Joe Biden, Long COVID, Physicians, Policy, Primary Care, Primary Care Physicians (PCPs), Therapeutics, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, United StatesPresident Joe Biden on April 5 tasked the U.S. health department with developing a national action plan to tackle the looming health crisis of long COVID, a complex, multi-symptom condition that leaves many of its sufferers unable to work.
The high cost of insulin to treat diabetes would be drastically reduced under legislation the U.S. House of Representatives passed on March 31, in a rare example of drug price reform gaining traction in Congress.
Seattle-based Icosavax’s stock plunged more than 60 percent on March 25 after the company reported topline interim data from its ongoing Phase I/II COVID-19 vaccine trial.
EXCLUSIVE: U.S. seeks to expand Trump-era COVID data collection under CDC
Breakthrough COVID-19, CDC, Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Pandemic, COVID-19 booster shots, COVID-19 shots, Data Tracking, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Donald Trump, Hospitalized patients, Hospitals, Infectious Diseases, Joe Biden, National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN), Patients, Respiratory DiseaseThe Biden administration wants to expand a federal COVID-19 tracking system created during the pandemic to provide a more detailed view of how respiratory and other infectious diseases are affecting patients and hospital resources, according to a draft of proposed rules reviewed by Reuters.
The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services and the Office of the Surgeon General will request input on COVID-19 misinformation online as they seek to understand the role it played during the pandemic and its impact on health decisions made by individuals.
What’s ahead in Biden’s year 2?
ACA, Alzheimer’s disease, Approvals, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Coalition for Healthcare Communication (CHC), Congress, Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Pandemic, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), FDA, FDA Commissioner, February 2022, Issue Archives, Joe Biden, Jon Bigelow, PDUFA, TherapeuticsEach new president enters the White House with big dreams and unique challenges. For President Joe Biden, 2021 was dominated by the evolving COVID-19 pandemic, an historically difficult transition of power, and a focus on packing an ambitious combination of economic relief, infrastructure investment, and social spending initiatives into a handful of multi-trillion dollar omnibus bills to push through a tightly-divided Congress.
More than 100,000 Americans died from diabetes in 2021, marking the second consecutive year for that grim milestone and spurring a call for a federal mobilization similar to the fight against HIV/AIDS.
Exclusive: U.S. health agency may be unprepared to take over COVID vaccine program
"Operation Warp Speed" Initiative, BioNTech, BNT162b2 (Pfizer and BioNTech), Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Pandemic, COVID-19 Vaccinations, COVID-19 Vaccines, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Moderna, mRNA-1273/Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine (Moderna), Pfizer, Reuters, United StatesThe U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) appears unprepared to assume full responsibility for the nation’s Covid-19 vaccine program, including activities currently managed by the Pentagon, according to a draft government watchdog report reviewed by Reuters.