Elisabeth Rosenthal A few months ago, it seemed as though the country was poised to finally tame the pandemic, after two years of restrictions and tens of billions in government spending. The Biden administration in March released the first national covid-19 preparedness plan to help Americans safely “return to normal,” a strategy to live with the continued presence of the […]
DEERFIELD, Ill. & SAN FRANCISCO, June 15, 2022 – Walgreens and Greater Than AIDS, a public information initiative of KFF (Kaiser Family Foundation), are teaming up with health departments and community organizations in more than 250 cities to host the largest coordinated National HIV Testing Day (NHTD) event in the nation. Click here for a list of participating Walgreens stores […]
An outside Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panel on Wednesday unanimously recommended the agency grant emergency use authorization to Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine for children between the ages of 6 months and 5 years. The agency’s vaccine advisers voted 21-0 to recommend the agency authorize the vaccine. An advisory panel for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will meet […]
In late summer 2021, during the Delta wave of the coronavirus pandemic, the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation issued a disturbing wake-up call: According to its calculations, more than 11 million Americans were already experiencing long COVID. The academy’s dashboard has been updated daily ever since, and now pegs that number at 25 million. Even this may be […]
The Covid-19 public health crisis continues to reverberate across many aspects of our lives, particularly in the workplace. Employers have sought ways to improve access to mental health and telehealth providers, not just because working remotely has led to this need. Employees also have higher expectations for health benefits like these and if their employers can’t deliver them, they may […]
Covid-19 research built on decades of research to produce safe and effective vaccines in about a year. The effort was a confluence of elements, said John Trizzino, executive vice president and chief commercial and business officer of Novavax. In addition to the scientific foundations of the vaccines themselves, logistics and manufacturing also came into play. But the next time, […]
Health Tech If you want to come see the best of health plans and health tech aimed at them, plus try your hand at the craps tables, it’s not too too late to get a ticket to AHIP 2022 in Las Vegas next week! Plus meet Matthew Holt & Jess DaMassa as they tour/troll the exhibit hall and look for […]
Dignity Health’s (San Francisco) Arroyo Grande Community Hospital (Arroyo Grande, Calif.) and Kindred Rehabilitation Services (Louisville, Ky.), a business unit of LifePoint Health (Brentwood, Tenn.), announced a joint venture to build and operate a new inpatient rehabilitation hospital on the Arroyo Grande Community Hospital campus in Arroyo Grande, Calif. The 46,000-square-foot hospital will be built adjacent to a current rehabilitation […]
Happy Pride month! In this post, I’d like to share about a research project in progress that is relevant to the LGBTQ+ community. This post may also be interesting to those of you who care about health equity and the social determinants of health (SDoH). Throughout, I use the term “queer people” as an umbrella term for members of the […]
Doctors heads and hearts are jammed with concerns beyond curing patients’ medical conditions: U.S. physicians are worried about big social issues, according to a Medscape survey report, Physicians’ Views on Today’s Divisive Social Issues 2022. Topping physicians’ list of their top-five most important social issues, far above all others ranked healthcare access. Underneath that top-line statistic, it’s important to note […]