The Food and Drug Administration on Monday extended the emergency use authorization for the Pfizer and BioNTech Covid-19 booster shot to include teens aged 12 to 15, paving the way for them to be eligible for the jabs later this week. It is the first booster shot to be authorized for this age group. A ...
California‘s roughly 2.5 million health care workers have until Feb. 1 to get a coronavirus vaccine booster shot or risk losing their jobs, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Wednesday. Newsom gave more details on the booster mandate during a Wednesday news conference at a vaccine clinic in Oakland. He had initially announced the new rule on ...
Former Vice President Mike Pence on Monday announced his advocacy group has filed an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to reject the Biden administration’s attempt to require large businesses to mandate the COVID-19 vaccine for its workers or require frequent testing. Pence filed the brief, which was shared with The Hill, through his political advocacy group Advancing American Freedom. In ...
The Supreme Court is fast-tracking two legal cases challenging President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandates, including a requirement for certain healthcare workers. The high court announced Wednesday it will hold a special hearing Jan. 7 to hear oral arguments over federal vaccine mandates that are at the heart of the Biden administration’s efforts to address COVID in ...
The Biden administration is appealing a federal ruling that said drugmakers have the authority to restrict sales of 340B-discounted products to contract pharmacies. The Department of Justice filed an appeal Tuesday to a lawsuit brought by Novartis and United Therapeutics over drugmakers’ ability to cut off sales to contract pharmacies. It also appealed several aspects of other ...
The past several years have seen headline after headline about investors buying up Medicare Advantage-focused providers for huge sums of money and throwing cash behind startup insurers that promise to disrupt the $350 billion market. Meanwhile, there’s been an eye-popping number of new ventures seeking to capture a corner of the growing patient population. This ...