Two Biden administration officials released a letter on Wednesday calling on teachers to help encourage parents to get their children vaccinated against COVID-19 now that vaccines are available to nearly all children. In a “Dear Colleagues” letter provided to The Hill, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra and Education Secretary Miguel Cardona called on the staff for early childhood […]
ReCode Therapeutics was formed around new science potentially enabling delivery of genetic medicines to various organs in the body, and the startup has encouraging data for its therapeutic candidates targeting the lungs. Now the biotech startup has $120 million to show that it can deliver on the technology’s promise in other organs and cell types in the body. The […]
Health Tech By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH “Being an unpaid caregiver is the epicenter of Life Sucks Disease,” says Alexandra Drane, Co-Founder & CEO of ARCHANGELS, “but it’s also one of the most glorious, one of the most magnificent jobs we’ll ever have.” So, what’s the trick to managing the “sucky” side of caregiving? Data. Alex’s company ARCHANGELS has invented […]
A two-dose vaccine, Jynneos, is approved for monkeypox in the U.S. The government has many more doses of an older smallpox vaccine — ACAM2000 — that they say could also be used, but that vaccine is considered to have a greater risk of side effects and is not recommended for people who have HIV. So it’s the Jynneos vaccine that […]
La Organización Mundial de la Salud dijo el 25 de junio que la viruela del simio aún no es una emergencia de salud pública que preocupe a nivel internacional. Se han informado más de 4,500 casos en todo el mundo, y ya superan los 300 en los Estados Unidos. Aunque es probable que haya un subregistro porque no se hace […]
A group of Democratic governors is calling on Congress to avert what they call “disastrous” ObamaCare premium increases for next year, as lawmakers search for a solution in their economic package. The letter from 14 Democratic governors to congressional leaders calls for extending enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies enacted last year as part of President Biden’s American Rescue Plan […]
Population genomics and viral surveillance company Helix said Tuesday that it has begun a new partnership with Texas’ Memorial Hermann Health System to launch a new population health program targeting 100,000 individuals. Expected to be one of the largest such programs in the region, the effort will give participants no-cost access to genetic data intended to help them and their […]
The University of California San Francisco (UCSF) opened the Nancy Friend Pritzker Psychiatry Building in San Francisco. The new facility houses mental health care, research, and training services. Situated adjacent to UCSF’s Mission Bay campus, the five-story, 150,000-square-foot project includes a child, teen, and family center, rooftop garden, therapeutic kitchen for families of patients with eating disorders, therapy gym, and […]
Political will seems to be growing to reshape the increasingly popular Medicare Advantage program. At a House Energy and Commerce committee hearing on Tuesday, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle called for more oversight of MA following watchdog reports that found impediments to receiving covered care, including improper denials of prior authorization requests, and plans gaming the system in […]
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) slammed “Sesame Street” on Wednesday after the popular children’s show promoted COVID-19 vaccines in a recent episode, accusing it of “aggressively” advocating for the inoculations for young kids despite citing “zero scientific evidence.” The Texas lawmaker shared a recent clip from the show’s Twitter account in which Elmo’s father, Louie, tells his son he was “super-duper” […]