Senate Republicans and Democrats Close to Agreement on $10 Billion COVID-19 Aid
Republicans and Democrats in the US Senate have reached an “agreement in principle” over a $10 billion COVID-19 aid package, [...]
Health Affairs Analysis: 2021-2030 National Health Expenditure Projections
A new analysis in Health Affairs projects national health expenditures in the US from 2021-2030. Although the COVID-19 pandemic has [...]
Study: COVID-19 Outcomes Worse Among Black Cancer Patients Compared to White Cancer Patients
Health disparities have been brought to the forefront due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In a new study published in JAMA [...]
Politico Live: 2022 Health Care Summit
This Thursday, March 31st, Politico is hosting its inaugural 2022 Health Care Summit. In this virtual/in-person hybrid event, speakers will [...]
AstraZeneca’s EvuSheld Receives Market Authorization Recommendation by CHMP
The EU’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has released their recommendation that the COVID-19 preventative treatment Evusheld [...]
Moderna seeks FDA Emergency Authorization for Children Under 6
Moderna touts new data supporting the use of its COVID-19 vaccine Spikevax in children under 6 as it prepares to [...]
Health Affairs Pathways Podcast: ED Clinicians and Emergency Psychiatric Care
Amidst the ballooning mental health crisis that has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, emergency department clinicians face an uphill [...]
COVID-19 Vaccine Intellectual Property Compromise Praised by WTO Chief
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, current World Trade Organization chief, has expressed optimism to developments in intellectual property deliberations for COVID-19 vaccine technology. [...]
Machine Learning Offers Insights on COVID-19 ICU Utilization
The influx of COVID-19 patients pushed intensive care units (ICUs) to the breaking point in early 2021. Triaging who would [...]
Moderna Evaluates Smaller Doses of COVID-19 Vaccine for Teens and Children
As Moderna waits for the FDA’s decision on emergency use authorization (EUA) of its COVID-19 vaccine for 12-17-year-olds at 100-microgram [...]
ICER Publishes Cost-Effectiveness Study of Remdesivir for COVID-19 Patients
Researchers from the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review have published their cost-effectiveness analysis of remdesivir in the most recent [...]
Mask Mandates May Pose Harms for Children with Disabilities
In a new Brownstone article, Patricia Doran argues that mask mandates may place an undue burden on neurodivergent children and [...]
Racial Discrimination and Income Inequality Worsen COVID-19 Outcomes
Evidence mounting since the beginning of the pandemic indicates that low-income patients and people from marginalized backgrounds suffer worse COVID-19 [...]
NEMJ Study: Patient Safety Backslides During COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has reversed improvements in hospital patient safety from previous years, as reported by an article published in [...]
How Social Media Undermines Public Health
In a new Health Populi blog post, Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, MA, MHSA, explains the detrimental role of social media on public [...]
Public Citizen Calls Out Pfizer’s “Patent Wall” for COVID-19 Treatment
Public Citizen has released a statement accusing Pfizer of filing a barrage of patents for a key component of their [...]
FDA and Pfizer Step Away From COVID-19 Vaccine Expedited Review
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Pfizer are backing down from initial plans to fast-track approval of their [...]
Model Outlines the Cost of Vaccinating the World and the Human Cost of Doing Otherwise
A new model shows that vaccinating inhabitants of lower-middle and lower-income countries would save between 1.2 to 1.5 million lives [...]
EU and Africa Summit Overshadowed by Vaccine Access
A cloud of frustration about Europe’s refusal to share vaccine technology looms over a two day summit of African and [...]
US Hospital Spending Report: Remdesivir Takes the Lead
A recently spending report released by Vizient shows that Remsdesivir, the COVID-19 treatmetn by Gilead Sciences Inc, was the medicine [...]
Biden Administration Spent Billions of Hospital Covid-19 Funding on Vaccines and Therapeutics
In a move mirroring the Trump administration, the Biden Administration diverted almost $7 billion that was initially allocated to hospitals [...]
FAIR Health Releases COVID-19 Cost Tracker Brief
In a new brief released by FAIR Health, 2020-2021 private healthcare claims data was analyzed to deliver state by state [...]
CADTH Annual Report 2020–2021: Unprecedented
The Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health’s (CADTH) 2020-2021 annual report was themed “unprecedented.” The authors break down [...]
Spike in Employer Insurance Costs in 2021 Raises Uncertainty Toward the Future
Results from a new Mercer survey show that the average insurance cost per employee jumped by 6.3% in 2021. This [...]
COVID-19 Data Destruction Investigation Begins at the University of Florida
Following several complaints that University of Florida faculty members were pressured to delay or destroy COVID-19 research data, the university [...]
