The Biden administration has decided to stretch out its limited supply of monkeypox vaccine by allowing a different method of injection that uses one-fifth as much per shot, according to people familiar with the discussions. In order for the Food and Drug Administration to authorize so-called intradermal injection, which would involve injecting one-fifth of the ...

When the pandemic started, Tomeka Kimbrough-Hilson knew she had a small growth inside her uterus. She was first diagnosed with uterine fibroids back in 2006 and had been able to have the non-cancerous mass removed through outpatient laser surgery. Over the years, she’d also been able to manage her symptoms with medication and changes in ...

San Francisco has demanded more vaccines and treatment options for its escalating cases of monkeypox — but the city has all but abandoned a time-honored method of containing outbreaks: contact tracing.U.S. health officials declared monkeypox a national health emergency last week, as did California and San Francisco city officials, and although it’s typically non-fatal, no one ...

Generic drugmakers are warning that Democrats’ plan to let Medicare negotiate the prices of drugs may undercut competition from lower-cost copycats, inject massive uncertainty into their market and forfeit potential long-term savings. Why it matters: Experts say the concern about downstream effects on generics is valid and point to larger questions about whether the overriding focus ...

Our country is on the verge of another health care crisis, and families across Nevada will pay the price if Congress fails to protect our access to affordable care and coverage.

The Secretary of State has announced that the California Fair Pay and Employer Accountability Act qualified for the 2024 ballot on the random sample count of signatures. The initiative’s campaign submitted 962,217 signatures in support of the reform, meeting the 110% validity rate threshold The ballot measure will put workers’ labor claims back in the ...