
Top Stories for Week of August 24, 2020
Top FDA official in charge of overseeing new COVID-19 vaccines says he’ll resign if agency is pressured into a premature approval. A top US health regulator who will help decide… Read more »
Top FDA official in charge of overseeing new COVID-19 vaccines says he’ll resign if agency is pressured into a premature approval. A top US health regulator who will help decide… Read more »
CDC makes it official: public should wear face masks. The CDC is now advocating that everyone should wear a cloth face shield out in public places to protect others in… Read more »
The News: Healthcare stocks swooned again last week after President Donald Trump on Thursday slammed the pharmaceutical industry for high prices of prescription drugs and vowed to allow US states… Read more »
The News: Jeffrey E. Keller, MD, FACEP, is a board-certified emergency physician with 25 years of experience before moving full time into his “true calling” of correctional medicine. In a… Read more »
The News: Stepping into ethically and legally uncertain territory, a New York end-of-life agency has approved a new document that lets people stipulate in advance that they don’t want food… Read more »
A draft of President Donald Trump’s executive order on drug prices lists several proposals to lessen regulatory hurdles for the pharmaceutical industry, reports The New York Times. Here are four things… Read more »
The News: The US House of Representatives will send its healthcare overhaul plan passed earlier this month to the Senate in a couple of weeks after it receives a final… Read more »
The insurance markets were envisioned as dynamic engines of private competition. But in many states, they have run into problems. Worried that insurers bailing out of the health law’s markets… Read more »