The White House is rushing ahead to roll out a new COVID-19 booster shot campaign in early September, but is facing an uphill battle to ensure it is successful.   The vaccines being used in the campaign are the first ones that have been manufactured to specifically target the subvariants of omicron that are currently causing the most infections, and administration officials have indicated […]

The federal government is set to suspend its offer of free at-home COVID-19 tests by Friday, Sept. 2, without congressional authorization for an extension.  The U.S. Postal Service’s page for ordering the tests states that orders will pause by next Friday “or sooner if supplies run out.”  “Ordering through this program will be suspended on Friday, September 2 because Congress […]

Healthcare design projects are unique by nature, each responding to the specific needs of an organization and community to support the program housed within its walls. And that’s exactly how the judging of the Healthcare Design Showcase submissions is approached—projects aren’t weighed or pitted against one another, but rather assessed on their own merit and how well the end design […]

In less than two weeks, you could walk out of a pharmacy with a next-generation COVID booster in your arm. Just a few days ago, the Biden administration indicated that the first updated COVID-19 vaccines would be available shortly after Labor Day to Americans 12 and older who have already had their primary series. Unlike the shots the U.S. has […]

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Behold, dear readers, a poem that the people at NPR wrote about that one time a scientist unearthed and then ate part of a 55,000-year-old frozen bison. We don’t know.  Today in health care, two of the major COVID-19 vaccine makers, Moderna and Pfizer, are now in a legal battle over patents. Welcome to Overnight Health Care, where we’re following […]

Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said on Friday she was “cautiously optimistic” about the direction of the monkeypox outbreak amid early reports of cases trending down both in the U.S. and globally. During a press briefing, Walensky noted that some jurisdictions including New York, Chicago and San Francisco have begun to report a […]

Following the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision to remove federal protection to abortion, Texas has become a tense battleground. The state and anti-abortion physician groups sued the Department of Health and Human Services in July, claiming federal protections for emergency abortion violate Texas state law. On Tuesday, a Texas judge agreed.  The same day, several non-profit groups that support reproductive justice […]

The Biden administration said Friday there’s enough monkeypox vaccine available now but health officials say the shots aren’t getting to some of the people who need the protection the most. About 10% of monkeypox vaccine doses have been given to Black people, even though they account for one-third of U.S. cases, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. […]

  When a novel respiratory virus emerged and sparked global worries, Moderna responded with a new infectious disease division. The biotech’s scientists developed a messenger RNA vaccine that encoded the full length of the spike protein characteristic of this novel coronavirus. Animal tests of the lipid nanoparticle-encapsulated mRNA showed that the technology worked. This vaccine was not for SARS-CoV-2. Rather, […]