by Jordana Choucair | Sep 28, 2021 | Life Sciences
Pfizer and BioNTech submitted data to the FDA on their COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 5 to 11. The companies said that they would formally ask within weeks that the shot be authorized for children in that age group. If regulators follow the same timeline they took...
by Jordana Choucair | Sep 28, 2021 | Inequities and SDOH
The Biden administration announced nearly $1 billion in funding to support COVID-19 and primary health care infrastructure needs in medically underserved communities across all 50 states and U.S. territories. The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)...
by Jordana Choucair | Sep 28, 2021 | D.C. News
Senate Republicans blocked a bill that would avert a government shutdown and suspend the debt limit. Democratic leaders could now strip out the debt ceiling provision from the funding bill to pass a clean stopgap spending measure quickly through both chambers ahead of...
by Jordana Choucair | Sep 27, 2021 | Public Health/Prevention
The World Health Organization is renewing its probe into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. A new team of about 20 scientists will be looking for new evidence in China and elsewhere, a shift that comes as officials warn that time is running out to complete the...
by Jordana Choucair | Sep 27, 2021 | Providers
The American Dental Association (ADA) is pushing back against Democratic lawmakers’ plan to include dental benefits in Medicare through the $3.5 trillion budget bill. The ADA says that Medicare won’t cover their costs and that time-consuming paperwork and...
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