Across the country, some nursing home directors and health care officials say the partnership between federal government and pharmacy retailers is actually hampering the vaccination process by imposing paperwork and cumbersome corporate policies on facilities that are thinly staffed and reeling from the devastating effects of the coronavirus
Starting this month, most people with private insurance will no longer have to decide whether they can afford to protect themselves against HIV. Most health plans must begin to cover the drugs then without charging consumers anything out-of-pocket.
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
Public health laws typically come long after social norms shift, affirming a widespread acceptance that a change in habits is worth the public good and that it’s time for stragglers to fall in line. This fast-moving pandemic, however, doesn’t afford society the luxury of time. State mandates have put local officials in charge of changing behavior while general understanding catches up.
The rollout of two newly authorized Covid-19 vaccines is a bright ray of hope at the pandemic’s darkest hour. Both are expected to be available to the public in the first few months of next year. Here are answers to some questions you might be asking yourself about the new vaccines.
The country is just one week into the Covid-19 vaccine rollout, and it has become clear that America is ill-prepared for a mass vaccination campaign of this scale.
A new analysis shows that more than 2,900 healthcare workers have died amid Covid-19 pandemic — a much higher number than reported by the government.
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
As Covid-19 vaccine doses make their way around the country, there has been a lack of guidance and miscommunication at the federal level, leaving state officials to make key decisions on distribution amid a chaotic mass vaccination effort.
The CEO of Howard University Hospital, located on the campus of one the country's oldest historically Black colleges in Washington, D.C., received the Covid-19 vaccine in the hopes of encouraging her staff to follow her lead and help dispel the generations-long mistrust in the U.S. healthcare system among the Black community.
Covid-19’s impact on children represents a tiny fraction of the suffering and death experienced by vulnerable adults. Yet it's pretty serious having caused 154 deaths and more than 7,500 hospitalizations as of Dec. 3 among people 19 and younger in the United States.
Even as FDA engaged in intense deliberations ahead of Friday’s authorization of the Pfizer and BioNTech Covid vaccine, and days before the initial 6.4 million doses were to be released, hospitals across the country have been grappling with how to distribute the first scarce shots.
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Xavier Becerra, President-elect Joe Biden’s choice to head the Department of Health and Human Services, is set to be a pandemic-era secretary with no public health experience. Whether that matters depends on whom you ask. Becerra built his career in the U.S. House of Representatives before becoming California’s attorney general, and some wonder whether […]
The new coverage option was established through a rule issued by the Trump administration last year and could be helpful for workers whose income is too high to qualify for the Affordable Care Act’s tax credits that help pay for policies sold on the individual market.
As the winter surge picks up and cases skyrocket daily, health officials report that backup clinicians are becoming much harder to find.
A health journalist, a physician and a former foreign correspondent sits down with Dr. Anthony Fauci for a lengthy Q&A about safety during Covid times.
Bandannas, like plastic face shields, allow the virus to escape out the bottom in aerosolized particles that can hang in the air for hours. And gaiters are often made of such thin material that they don’t trap as much virus as cloth masks.