by Jordana Choucair | Jul 13, 2022 | Opioid/Substance Use Disorders
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. and AbbVie Inc.’s Allergan unit will pay $34 million in cash and $20 million worth of overdose reversal drug Narcan to settle a federal lawsuit brought by San Francisco alleging that the drugmakers fueled the opioid surge,...
by Jordana Choucair | Jul 13, 2022 | Providers
A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) analysis found that superbug infections and deaths in U.S. hospitals jumped approximately 15 percent in 2020. From 2012 to 2017, a public health push to stamp out superbug infections in hospitals resulted in a 30...
by Jordana Choucair | Jul 12, 2022 | D.C. News
The Biden administration reaffirmed that doctors and hospitals need to follow federal law and provide abortions if there is a medical emergency and the health or life of the patient is at risk, regardless of state law. Administration officers noted that the Emergency...
by Jordana Choucair | Jul 12, 2022 | Life Sciences
The federal government announced that it plans to secure an initial 3.2 million doses of Novavax’s COVID-19 vaccine. If the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) grants the vaccine an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA), the government will make the vaccine available for...
by Jordana Choucair | Jul 12, 2022 | Mental Health
A Wall Street Journal analysis of calls to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (Lifeline) between 2016 and 2021 found that one in six ended without reaching a counselor. One-and-a-half million of the 9.2 million calls placed ended either because the caller...
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