Thursday, January 27, 2022: Life Sciences

The Biden administration redirected nearly $7 billion from an emergency relief fund for health care providers in order to buy COVID-19 vaccines and treatments, leaving the emergency fund nearly empty. A spokesperson HHS defended the decision, saying it was a...

Thursday, January 27, 2022: Life Sciences

The Biden administration is considering ways to improve access to free, at-home COVID-19 tests for Medicare beneficiaries. The administration’s requirement for private insurers to cover the tests doesn’t apply to Medicare since Medicare coverage doesn’t...

Thursday, January 27, 2022: Life Sciences

Moderna Inc. said it began testing an omicron-specific version of its COVID-19 vaccine booster in a clinical trial among 600 adults who have received two or three doses of its existing shot. The announcement came one day after Pfizer Inc. launched its own similar...

Thursday, January 27, 2022: D.C. News

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer will retire at the end of the term, clearing the way for President Joe Biden to name his first nomination to the high court. Biden has vowed to fill the vacancy with an African American woman, which would represent a historic...