When the monkeypox outbreak was first detected in the United States, it seemed, as far as infectious-disease epidemics go, like one this country should be able to handle. Tests and antivirals for the virus already existed; the government had stockpiled vaccines. Unlike SARS-CoV-2, monkeypox was a known entity, a relative softball on the pathogenic field. It wasn’t hypertransmissible, moving mainly […]
I was on a flight from Chicago to Sacramento when the lymph nodes in my neck swelled up, cutting off my airway. The flight crew wanted to do an emergency landing to get me to a hospital as soon as possible. I began to panic — not because I couldn’t breathe but because I was terrified about how much it […]
New York’s attorney general is suing CVS Health, alleging the healthcare company violated antitrust laws and forced safety-net hospitals to forgo millions in drug savings that are part of a federal discount program. CVS said in a statement that the “allegations are without merit and we will defend ourselves vigorously.” The lawsuit filed Thursday alleges that CVS told eligible hospitals […]
About This Tracker This tracker provides current data on the share of the population having received at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose by country, income-level, region, and globally. Additionally, this tool estimates future vaccine coverage levels if the current rate of first dose administration is maintained going forward and compares these coverage levels to global vaccination targets. These targets include […]
The Biden administration announced that it is buying 66 million doses of updated Moderna COVID-19 vaccine targeting the omicron variant ahead of a planned booster campaign starting in “early fall.” The updated vaccine will specifically target the BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants of omicron which are currently circulating and fueling a new increase in hospitalizations. The Moderna purchase comes on […]
RWJBarnabas Health’s (West Orange, N.J.) held a topping-out ceremony for a 15-story ambulatory medical pavilion at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, N.J. The 229,000-square-foot project will expand outpatient services on the campus and is scheduled to be completed in second quarter 2023.
BioMEMS Diagnostics, a Michigan-based diagnostics developer, has opened an assay development/optimization laboratory on the Gunnison, Colorado campus of Western Colorado University. The laboratory will create high-performance assay chemistry and optimized antibodies for the company’s electrochemical assays. The assays are integrated with BioMEMS’s proprietary microelectromechanical sensor arrays, housed within a single-use test cartridge which captures and processes biofluid samples. Zane Baird […]
Hospice care, once provided primarily by nonprofit agencies, has seen a remarkable shift over the past decade, with more than two-thirds of hospices nationwide now operating as for-profit entities. The ability to turn a quick profit in caring for people in their last days of life is attracting a new breed of hospice owners: private equity firms. That rapid growth […]
That is the conclusion from a recent report from some of my colleagues at FTI Consulting’s Center for Healthcare Economics and Policy. In the report titled “Protecting the Pipeline: How a Public Option Could Impact Our Nation’s Health Care Workforce“. An excerpt and some empirical findings are below. …government rate setting under a public option […]
We are now just hours away from the premiere of Beyoncé’s new album “Renaissance,” her seventh solo album, and the Beyhive can barely contain itself. Today in health care, lowering the cost of insulin could be back on the agenda, and Democrats make another stab at trying to get COVID-19 funding passed. Welcome to Overnight Health Care, where we’re […]