After having already made its “established technology”—that is, GSK’s “pandemic vaccine adjuvant system”—available to several regional players earlier in the year, a splashy mid-April announcement reported that GSK would override its ordinarily fierce competition with Sanofi to embark on a Co...
OHE, under the CDC’s new organizational rules, “coordinates programs, practices, policies and budget decisions” in a way that takes into consideration health disparities among different races, genders and sexual orientations, according to an announcement posted to the Federal Register. Another arm...
Paul Offit would like the world to see him as a champion of children’s health and a disinterested observer of controversial issues in autism and vaccine safety. In the view of many in the autism community, he is the worst kind of partisan: a Merck-made millionaire, a determined propagandi...
The announcement comes on the heels of a review of the agency’s response to Covid that Walensky commissioned in the spring. Jim Macrae, associate administrator for primary health care at the Health Resources and Services Administration — part of HHS — was tasked in early April with doing a...
What adds to the mystery in all this is the fact thatthe CDC just issued a “laboratory alert,”announcing their intention to withdraw the faulty PCR testing protocol by the end of this year. As part of their announcement, they implied...
The announcement doesn’t mean all viruses act the same or have the same impact, Cohen noted. Instead, she said that having a set of uniform recommendations to limit the spread of respiratory infections makes them easier to follow and more likely to be adopted. Symptom-based recommendations als...
The announcement of the Goalkeepers Global Goals Awards and the Accelerators follows the release last week of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's annualGoalkeepers Report.This year's report shows how economic damage caused by COVID-19 has reinforced inequities and derailed ach...
The head of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday he expects an update in coming days from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on the factory contamination issues that have delayed millions of doses of the Johnson & Johnson single-shot COVID-19 vaccine around ...
The announcement was foreshadowed for days by top officials and demanded for weeks by some activists. The new recommendation is likely to prompt a raft of new mask mandates around the country and has already done so in the U.S. Capitol. "For the Congress, representing a collection of ...