Author: Scott Welch
In its first analysis, the newly formed End Drug Shortages Alliance (EDSA) warns that the recent shuttering of a troubled Teva Pharmaceuticals manufacturing plant in Irvine, California, could affect the availability of 24 generic sterile injectable drugs, including 5 essential medications for which the company had an over 15% market share. The Israel-based, multinational Teva, one ...
Anthem’s shareholders have signed off on the insurer’s corporate rebrand as Elevance Health. With the shareholder approval, Anthem will commemorate the name change on June 28 by ringing the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange before trading under the new ticker ELV, the company said in an announcement. “The result of today’s vote reflects the shareholders’ ...
When Johanna Trenerry found a nursing home for her husband after his stroke, she expected his stay would be temporary. He never came home. Arthur Trenerry died at Windsor Redding Care Center in Northern California in October 2020. The 82-year-old great-grandfather is among more than 9,900 California nursing home residents who have died of covid-19. The nursing ...
Even as other states surpass their pre-pandemic job levels, the Bay Area and California have recuperated from coronavirus-linked business shutdowns and closures at a mediocre pace. The feeble rebound means a full recovery from COVID-spawned job losses remains months away, and has prompted some experts to warn that the Golden State and Silicon Valley aren’t ...
Dive Brief: * Searches on Google for 20 common, nonemergent procedures are above pre-pandemic levels, providing another data point that indicates demand is recovering, according to analysts at Needham. * The analysts believe Google Trends data may indicate the level of consumer interest in certain procedures, leading them to track the resource to understand changes over ...
When it comes to passing legislation to mandate or urge more people to get COVID-19 vaccines, there seems to be a common refrain at the California Capitol: Maybe next year. Lawmakers still have months left in their 2021 session, but an ambitious slate of vaccine bills proposed by Democrats is on life support. Its two ...
After years of multimillion-dollar battles over medical malpractice awards, California legislators passed a deal increasing the monetary amount patients could claim in lawsuits while also averting a costly November ballot battle. The deal, which passed both chambers with near unanimous votes, replaced a ballot measure with legislation raising the cap for a patient’s “non-economic damages,” or ...
Congress has backed off "Medicare for All" for the time being. But legislators in several states are now taking up the charge.
Remote work has resulted in a boost in productivity, according to a new report, but worker burnout has also skyrocketed. That’s according to a survey of 175 HR executives in the U.S. recently released by The Conference Board. Sixty-two percent of organizations with primarily remote workforces said they’ve seen productivity grow since the start of the pandemic, the report said. ...
When she was Pennsylvania’s insurance commissioner, Jessica Altman, the appointee of a Democratic governor, often bumped against the political limits of health care policy in a state where Republicans controlled the legislature. Despite the constraints of a divided government, Altman played a key role in persuading lawmakers in 2019 to join Gov. Tom Wolf in passing ...