Andy Stone is one of the lucky ones. The New York City resident saw a tweet from a local AIDS activist saying that monkeypox vaccines would be available that day at a clinic in Manhattan. Stone, 35, and his husband booked appointments online right away and got their shots last month. “I want to do what I can to protect […]
The Biden administration announced on Thursday that it will distribute 144,000 more doses of the Jynneos vaccine across the country to address a recent spike in confirmed cases of monkeypox. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said in a press release it would begin shipping the vaccines from the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) on Monday. HHS has already […]
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) on Thursday said she supports the Senate removing the procedural filibuster rule in order to codify abortion rights into law. Feinstein said she “certainly would vote” to support a carveout to the filibuster to pass the Women’s Health Protection Act and codify federal-level abortion protections. “Let me be clear: If it comes down to protecting the […]
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) announced on Thursday that his state will be producing its own “low cost” insulin, stating, “People should not go into debt to get life-saving medication.” Newsom said that the state budget he recently signs includes $100 million for California to “contract and make [its] own insulin at a cheaper price, close to at-cost, and to […]
The rising levels of both type 1 and type 2 diabetes in American youth is quickly becoming a major public health concern. Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that 210,000 of the estimated 26.9 million Americans with diagnosed diabetes in 2018 were children and adolescents younger than age 20. To help address this problem, New York […]
The Medicare Shared Savings Program could see big changes soon if the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services enacts a set of policies unveiled Thursday. CMS proposes offering advanced shared savings payments to low-revenue accountable care organizations and allowing more flexibility for ACOs that take on performance-based risk. CMS also aims to adjust ACO benchmarks to fix glitches that make […]
Global inflation has hit the zoo. Facing rising costs, a Japanese zoo is giving its penguins and otters cheaper fish than usual. Some of the animals are less than impressed and refusing to eat the cheap stuff. In health news, with Roe overturned, Republican House members are now thinking of restricting abortions across the country, though any legislation faces several obstacles. Welcome […]
CareConnectMD Inc. — a Costa Mesa, California-based and physician-led medical group — has raised a $25 million financing round led by the Minneapolis-based TT Capital Partners. The funds will go towards expanding CareConnectMD’s footprint in California, Ohio and Texas, as well as other markets. The $25 million has also been earmarked for investment into the company’s technology platform as well. […]
Pharmaceutical giant AbbVie generates almost all of its sales in the U.S. but has allegedly exploited former President Trump’s tax law to shield much of its sales from taxes, according to an interim report released Thursday by Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee. The report details how loopholes in the 2017 tax law have allowed AbbVie, a large multinational corporation […]
What will data privacy look like now that the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade (as well as Planned Parenthood of Southeastern PA v. Casey) and removed federal Constitutional protection for abortion in the case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization? The exact answer, for now, will depend how each state wants to treat abortion, how aggressive each state and […]