COVID-19 is on the rise again in the Americas as many countries have abandoned measures like masking and social distancing and many lag in vaccination rates, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) said on May 18.

COVID-19 cases in the Americas increased by 12.7 percent last week from the prior week, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) said on May 4, as infections continued to rise in Central and North America.

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Teva Pharmaceutical Industries believes the company would have to pay around $2.6 billion in cash and medicine to settle thousands of lawsuits alleging the world’s largest generic firm and other drug manufacturers fueled the U.S. opioid epidemic.

COVID-19 cases and deaths are declining in the Americas, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) said on April 20, with infections last week having dropped 2.3 percent and deaths falling 15.2 percent from the prior week. The broad trend comes even as cases have scaled up in North America with an 11.2 percent increase last week, the organization said.

Evoke, a leading global health and wellness agency, announced the integration with San Francisco-based Evoke Giant to build a seamless North American client partner. The integration formally merges the two agencies while retaining the ability to service clients independently across the United States.

COVID-19 infections are reaching new peaks in the Americas with 7.2 million new cases and more than 15,000 COVID-related deaths in the last week, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) said on January 19.

The spread of COVID-19 in the Americas driven by the Omicron variant of the virus reached levels of transmission never before seen during the pandemic, with cases doubling to 6.1 million over the past week, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) said on January 12.

Tugarê Group, one of Latin America’s premier healthcare advertising agency groups, announced the launch of Competitive Edge Digital Studio, the world’s first cost-effective production studio purpose-built for the healthcare communications industry. The company is poised to meet the demand for high quality, specialized digital content for small to medium-size agencies throughout North America and Europe delivered at significantly competitive prices. 

BioSpace presented its NextGen Bio “Class of 2022,” a list of up-and-coming life sciences companies in North America that recently launched.

Covid-19 deaths decreased 17 percent in the Americas over the past week, but the most populous countries like the United States, Brazil and Colombia are seeing a leveling of new infections after weeks of declining trends, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) said on November 17.