Tuesday, January 11, 2022: D.C. News

The Biden administration on Monday issued rules requiring private health insurers to cover the cost of at-home COVID-19 tests. Under the policy, insurers will be required to cover the cost of eight at-home COVID-19 tests per person each month starting January 15. The...

Monday, January 10, 2022: Life Sciences

Pfizer Inc. will pay up to $1.35 billion to partner with gene-editing specialist Beam Therapeutics Inc. The four-year deal will allow Pfizer to develop three drugs for rare genetic diseases of the liver, muscle, and central nervous system using base editing, a...

Monday, January 10, 2022: Life Sciences

Moderna donated 2.7 million COVID-19 vaccine doses to Mexico as cases surge in the country. The donations arrived on Saturday at an airport in Toluca after the country this week surpassed more than 300,000 total confirmed coronavirus deaths. The government said the...

Monday, January 10, 2022: Life Sciences

The FDA on Friday authorized adults 18 and older who are vaccinated with Moderna to get a booster shot five months after their second dose, shortening the waiting period by a month. Days earlier, the agency shortened the booster shot waiting period for everyone 12 and...

Monday, January 10, 2022: D.C. News

The Biden administration will re-evaluate its decision to ship three types of monoclonal antibody treatments to states, after data showed that two of the three authorized antibodies may be ineffective against the omicron variant. David Kessler, chief scientific...