by Jordana Choucair | Jan 12, 2022 | D.C. News
The Biden administration released new guidance instructing federal agencies to start testing unvaccinated employees at least weekly for COVID-19 by February 15. The weekly testing impacts all non-exempt employees who “work onsite or interact in person with members of...
by Jordana Choucair | Jan 12, 2022 | Life Sciences
Medicare officials said the program should restrict coverage of Aduhelm, Biogen’s Alzheimer’s drug, to patients participating in randomized, controlled clinical trials. The agency made its decision after reviewing scientific evidence and various stakeholder opinions...
by Jordana Choucair | Jan 12, 2022 | Life Sciences
The federal government ordered another 600,000 doses of GlaxoSmithKline PLC and Vir Biotechnology Inc.’s monoclonal antibody treatment for COVID-19. The drugmakers plan to deliver the treatment, which is the only one thought to work against the Omicron variant,...
by Jordana Choucair | Jan 12, 2022 | Opioid/Substance Use Disorders
A new study published in JAMA Network Open found that the annual opioid overdose death rate per 100,000 persons for adults aged 55 and older increased substantially since 2019. Furthermore, rates varied substantially by sex and by race and ethnicity over time....
by Jordana Choucair | Jan 12, 2022 | Public Health/Prevention
Federal officials acknowledged Tuesday that most people will be infected with COVID-19 regardless of vaccination status. Anthony Fauci said that Omicron will infect “just about everybody,” but that those who have been vaccinated will “very likely, with some...
by Jordana Choucair | Jan 11, 2022 | Public Health/Prevention
The CDC is weighing an update to its mask guidance to recommend that people wear N95 or KN95 masks, the highly protective masks worn by medical workers, if they can do so consistently. The Biden administration has so far declined to officially recommend that people...
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