Popular Medications Cost 2.5 Times More In the US Than Elsewhere
Yet more evidence of how much more Americans pay for prescription drugs is revealed in a survey, while pharmaceutical companies make little progress helping poor Americans afford them.
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Yet more evidence of how much more Americans pay for prescription drugs is revealed in a survey, while pharmaceutical companies make little progress helping poor Americans afford them.
The announcement is a key change in how health insurers view transgender patients' medical needs. Many have excluded breast augmentation as cosmetic. In other industry news, hospitals register their opposition to a Trump administration effort to tie Medicare drug prices to what patients pay in other countries and Walgreens gets a new leader.
For the full year, 3M reported 12.3% sales growth in its health care segment, which includes its respirator masks and products such as hand sanitizers.
People with lingering symptoms of covid-19 months after initially recovering are finding more help. Doctors seek answers to multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children, or MIS-C, a rare inflammatory condition potentially linked to covid.
In other good news, hospitalizations are also down. News outlets report on the possible reasons behind the decreases while experts try to forecast which way the trends will continue.
The Moderna covid vaccine sometimes causes an itchy rash, but it is merely annoying and not a reason for concern, the company says. The WHO makes recommendations for pregnant women.
Overlake Medical Center in Washington state was rebuked for offering the vaccine to major donors; the Medical Center of Elberton in Georgia was suspended from giving out vaccines after offering them to school staff; and seniors in Johnson County, Kansas, waited outside for hours in bad weather.
A health care worker from Orange County died after receiving the second dose of vaccine. A separate case from Placer County is also under investigation by multiple agencies.
Lawmakers demand more information on the covid outbreaks among the thousands of troops stationed at the U.S. Capitol since the Jan. 6 insurrection. And a second police officer who responded to those violent events has died by suicide.
Pfizer says its vaccine works against mutations, but nonetheless Pfizer and Moderna are both working on a booster to fight the new variants.
An HHS inspector general investigation finds that federal funds allocated for scientific advancement by the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority were misappropriated for 10 years by federal officials in the Obama and Trump administrations. They called it tapping the "Bank of BARDA," ABC News reports.
Setting federal guidelines is part of President Joe Biden's strategy to get most schools back open during his first 100 days. That goal is getting pushback from teachers' unions, Politico reports.
In the first of regular pandemic briefings, White House officials tried to manage expectations about the timeline for vaccine distribution.
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Only one African nation has begun to vaccinate and others might not have vaccines until 2023. Public health experts say vaccine inequality will prolong the epidemic and possibly allow variants to emerge.
Amy Acton, a Democrat, resigned from the post after people threatened her because of her strong public health stance and Republican Gov. Mike DeWine loosened restrictions.
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