THURSDAY, July 22, 2021 (HealthDay News) — A proposed $26 billion settlement on opioid-related lawsuits has been reached with four large drug companies, a group of state attorneys general announced Wednesday. If enough states sign on to the deal with the country’s three major drug distributors — Cardinal Health, AmerisourceBergen and McKesson — and pharmaceutical … Read more
After the first meeting of world leaders in two years, Mr Johnson said “the world was looking to us to reject some of the selfish, nationalistic approaches that marred the initial global response to the pandemic and to channel all our diplomatic, economic and scientific might to defeating Covid for good”. Source link
By Steven ReinbergHealthDay Reporter TUESDAY, May 11, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Sleep problems cost America’s health care system nearly $95 billion a year and raise the cost of health care by 60%, a new study finds. Researchers discovered the number of doctor visits and prescriptions was nearly doubled in people with sleep problems such as … Read more
March 24, 2021 — President Joe Biden will announce the government will spend $81 billion to help schools get back to in-person learning — a step toward his stated goal of reopening schools within the first 100 days of his presidency, White House officials said during a Wednesday briefing. “Today, at the Department of … Read more
Jan. 11, 2021 – The CDC will send $3 billion to the states to boost a lagging national COVID-19 vaccination program. The Department of Health and Human Services announced the new funding as only 30% of the more than 22 million doses of vaccine distributed in the U.S. has been injected into Americans’ arms. … Read more
Serum Institute of India (SII) is reportedly readying one billion doses of five different coronavirus vaccines — Covishield, Covovax, COVIVAXX, COVI-VAC, and SII COVAX — worldwide before the end of 2021-22. CEO Adar Poonawalla said beginning with ‘Covishield’ coronavirus vaccine, Serum plans to launch at least one vaccine every quarter likely by 2021 beginning. Covishield, … Read more
Image copyright Reuters Teams across the world are working to develop a vaccine that will be effective against Covid-19. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has called it “the most urgent shared endeavour of our lifetimes”. But away from the high-tech science of finding a winning formula, what about the logistics of rolling out a vaccine to … Read more