Month: February 2022

The California Supreme Court upheld a lower court’s decision to cut a $4.25 million malpractice award for pain and suffering to the $250,000 state limit […]

The CDC eased indoor mask guidance Feb. 25, now relying on how COVID-19 is affecting a community’s healthcare system — rather than transmission rates alone […]

Judge backs Johnson & Johnson in bankruptcy ploy for talc litigation, clears way for settlement kdunleavy Fri, 02/25/2022 – 16:07

An infectious disease expert warned Friday that the United States isn’t ready for the next pandemic, adding that its easy for Americans to become “shortsighted […]

The lawsuit alleges that if UnitedHealth acquired Change, the payer would be able to gain a competitive advantage be seeing “very competitively sensitive” data from […]

Increasing flu vaccination coverage could have a modest benefit for reducing antibiotic-prescribing, according to a study published Feb. 24 in Epidemiology & Infection.

A scientific advisory panel said that the U.S. transplant system must be overhauled in the next five years, The Associated Press reported.A report from the National Academies […]

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Friday significantly eased its mask recommendations, including for schools, as part of long-awaited updated guidance for […]

A new study from Kaiser Permanente saw mortality rates drop, while the gap between Black and white patients declined, as screening for colorectal cancer increased […]

The Health Resources and Services Administration has distributed nearly $7.5 billion in American Rescue Plan Rural payments to 44,475 providers since the program began in […]

FDA approves Jardiance (empagliflozin) for wider range of patients with heart failure.

Medication abortion made up 54 percent of U.S. abortions in 2020, according to preliminary data from the Guttmacher Institute’s census of all known abortion providers.

Teladoc Health and Amwell, two of the largest telehealth companies, outlined their growth strategies to investors this week. Teladoc posted $2 billion in revenue for […]

Teladoc Health and Amwell, two of the largest telehealth companies, outlined their growth strategies to investors this week. Teladoc posted a $2 billion in revenue […]

Greenville, N.C-based Vidant Health has selected Christina Bowen, MD, to serve as its inaugural chief well-being officer. 

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Wednesday authorized the first-ever condom intended for safe anal intercourse.Authorization of the One Male Condom is expected to help reduce […]

Two states are reporting moderate flu activity and three are reporting low levels of activity, according to the CDC’s FluView report published Feb. 25.

Aragen (GVK Bio) -Walk-Ins for Discovery Chemistry On 26th Feb’ 2022 Job Description Greetings from Aragen Life Sciences (Formerly GVK Bio-Sciences…!!! Walk-in Event for Chemistry […]

Columbia, Tenn.-based Maury Regional Health has named Davin Turner, DO, its new CEO.  

Mylan Laboratories Ltd. (Viatris) Hiring B.Pharm/ M.Pharm / M.Sc for Officer -IPQA -Apply Now Job Description Hiring B.Pharm/ M.Pharm / M.Sc for Officer IPQA (Injectable) […]

I have fairly simple opinions on scientific papers that are found to be full of fakery. I think that they should be retracted, expunged from […]

Moving to transform payment to a value-based system — with payments tied to quality, cost effectiveness and patient experience — offers a solution that should […]

The biotech will start trials in the U.S. and U.K. of a vaccine that targets both the original coronavirus strain and the omicron variant.

A new investment fund launched by one of the few Black venture capitalists in healthcare is focused on backing Black entrepreneurs.

Lifesaving medical advances don’t happen by accident. They’re a direct consequence of good public policy.

Aragen (GVK Bio) -Walk-Ins for Synthesis Chemistry Solutions (Discovery) On 26th Feb’ 2022 Job Description Greetings from Aragen Life Sciences (Formerly GVK Bio-Sciences…!!! Aragen Life […]

Drugmaker Johnson & Johnson and three major distributors finalized nationwide settlements over their role in the opioid addiction crisis Friday, an announcement that clears the […]

Hetero Labs Limited -Walk-In Interviews for Fershers in Production/ QA/ QC/ Engineering / IPQA 28th Feb’ 2022 Job Description Greetings from Hetero !!! Hetero Labs […]

The following executive moves made by or involving women have been reported by or shared with Becker’s since Feb. 18. 

New York City public schools will no longer require students and staff to wear masks outdoors on school property, though indoor mask mandates will remain […]

Paushak Limited-Walk-Ins for  Production/ QA/ QC/ ADL/ R&D/ Mechanical/ Maintenance/ Operations/ TDG/ Instrumentation On 26th Feb’ 2022 Job Description Departments: Production/ QA/ QC/ ADL/ R&D/ Mechanical/ […]

Emergent underway with $100M in manufacturing upgrades as it gears up for ‘post-pandemic work’ kdunleavy Fri, 02/25/2022 – 10:15

Researchers find personalized antibiotic prescriptions can reduce the emergence of antibiotic resistance.

In an effort to improve health equity, CMS has changed to the Global and Professional Direct Contracting model after receiving stakeholder feedback, it said Feb. […]

Editor’s Corner: Fierce Pharma gets a fierce makeover esagonowsky Fri, 02/25/2022 – 09:38

RA Chem Pharma -Walk-In Interviews for Production On 26th Feb’ 2022 Job Description Greetings for the Day!!!We are hiring candidates for below positions in Formulations […]

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo, MD, updated the state’s COVID-19 guidance Feb. 24, which shortens isolation periods, advises against masks […]

The agency will announce a change to the metrics it uses to determine whether to recommend face coverings, shifting from looking at COVID-19 case counts to […]

Procedural Guidance

The close-knit, flexible outer layer – like chain mail – which protects superbug C.difficile has been unveiled.

A study newly published in The Lancet medical journal shows that from March 1, 2020, to April 30, 2021, about 5.2 million children globally lost a parent or […]

Unapproved New Drugs/Misbranded

29/03/2022 Workers get involved in preventing musculoskeletal disorders Image Photo by Scott Blake on Unsplash Active worker involvement is key to identifying and solving musculoskeletal […]

29/03/2022 Workers get involved in preventing musculoskeletal disorders Image Photo by Scott Blake on Unsplash Active worker involvement is key to identifying and solving musculoskeletal […]

29/03/2022 Workers get involved in preventing musculoskeletal disorders Image Photo by Scott Blake on Unsplash Active worker involvement is key to identifying and solving musculoskeletal […]

29/03/2022 Workers get involved in preventing musculoskeletal disorders Image Photo by Scott Blake on Unsplash Active worker involvement is key to identifying and solving musculoskeletal […]

29/03/2022 Workers get involved in preventing musculoskeletal disorders Image Photo by Scott Blake on Unsplash Active worker involvement is key to identifying and solving musculoskeletal […]

29/03/2022 Workers get involved in preventing musculoskeletal disorders Image Photo by Scott Blake on Unsplash Active worker involvement is key to identifying and solving musculoskeletal […]

29/03/2022 Workers get involved in preventing musculoskeletal disorders Image Photo by Scott Blake on Unsplash Active worker involvement is key to identifying and solving musculoskeletal […]

29/03/2022 Workers get involved in preventing musculoskeletal disorders Image Photo by Scott Blake on Unsplash Active worker involvement is key to identifying and solving musculoskeletal […]

29/03/2022 Workers get involved in preventing musculoskeletal disorders Image Photo by Scott Blake on Unsplash Active worker involvement is key to identifying and solving musculoskeletal […]

29/03/2022 Workers get involved in preventing musculoskeletal disorders Image Photo by Scott Blake on Unsplash Active worker involvement is key to identifying and solving musculoskeletal […]

Valneva expects to receive a positive CHMP recommendation for the conditional approval of its VLA2001 vaccine

Fierce Pharma Asia—Enhertu’s HER2-low breast cancer win; Takeda’s $2B gene therapy pact; Xtandi march-in campaign aliu Fri, 02/25/2022 – 06:53

Horizon joins with internet sensation to bring lyrical awareness to rare diseases sharon.coey Fri, 02/25/2022 – 06:36

Figures by National Audit Office estimate that programme prevented up to 262,000 hospitalisations

28/02/2022 Eusebio Rial González Innovation and Practice Award in Occupational Health Psychology – applications are open Image The European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology (EAOHP), […]

General practice delivered a far greater share of COVID-19 jabs than anticipated in the pandemic vaccination campaign – and at lower cost than other delivery […]

General practice delivered a far greater share of COVID-19 jabs than anticipated in the pandemic vaccination campaign – and at lower cost than other delivery […]

Amneal Pharmaceuticals-Walk-In Interview for QA/ QC (OSD) On 27th Feb’ 2022 Job Description Greetings from Amneal Pharma…!!! Walk-In Interview for QA/ QC (OSD) @ Amneal […]

People with chronic health conditions or weakened immune systems are at greater risk of getting seriously sick from COVID-19. This includes people living with diabetes, […]

Supply chain woes existed long before the pandemic, and not many scientists want to spend time sourcing ingredients. There is a way to ensure you […]

What if you could rely on one partner to source APIs, formulate and develop drug products, and manufacture at clinical and commercial scale? Rather than […]

When the patent on a brand-name dental paste expired, our client saw an opportunity to offer sufferers of painful oral lesions a generic alternative. Their […]

Vaccination against influenza (flu) is important this year. Vaccination is our best defence against flu viruses.

Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Dr Ruth Vine, answers the top three questions you’ve been asking on our social accounts around mental health.

Welcome to Thursday’s Overnight Health Care, where we’re following the latest moves on policy and news affecting your health. Subscribe here: thehill.com/newsletter-signup. There’s a lot going […]

The state of Maine plans to distribute over $9 million in aid for mental health and substance use disorders, reports The Associated Press.The sum will […]

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is expected to ease its guidelines on masking in an announcement on Friday after a number of states […]

King of Prussia, Pa.-based Universal Health Services reported higher revenue and profit in 2021 than a year earlier. 

Canadian regulators said Thursday Medicago’s two-dose vaccine can be given to adults ages 18 to 64, but said there’s too little data on the shots […]

The coronavirus mutant widely known as “stealth omicron” is now causing more than a third of new omicron cases around the world, but scientists still […]

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Medicare Advantage companies added 2.3 million enrollees in 2021, with 1.3 million of those individuals switching from traditional, fee-for-service Medicare, according to a report released […]

Neidorff plans to retire this year, but the insurer will have several executives step in to run Centene’s day-to-day operations during his absence.

Providers, patient advocates and some lawmakers are taking aim at health insurers, arguing that low payments and restrictions on coverage limit access.

Yale New Haven (Conn.) Health is expecting a $200 million deficit in 2022, including an operating loss of $100 million, New Haven Register reported Feb. […]

The federal No Surprises Act formally went into effect Jan. 1, but CMS’ decision to apply “enforcement discretion” throughout 2022 has compounded confusion and concerns […]

The federal judge ruled that some parts of the rule give too much power to insurers in the arbitration process and that HHS did not […]

FDA licenses Certara’s Immunogenicity Simulator to research and evaluate immunogenicity in protein-based therapeutics.

Cloud adoption in healthcare was considered slow compared with other industries, mostly because of the many commercial off-the-shelf products in use. But recently, healthcare organizations […]

AstraZeneca and Honeywell will partner to develop next-generation respiratory inhalers as part of AstraZeneca’s Ambition Zero Carbon program.

The acquisition is the home health, hospice and personal care company’s second home health purchase this month.

The new ACO model will incorporate health equity requirements, make changes to risk adjustment policies and more.

The Pentagon experimented with an algorithm that uses data gathered by fitness trackers to predict whether a user has COVID-19 two days before they show […]

Below are six hospitals and health systems that posted job listings seeking COOs over the last few weeks.

In addition to its annual awards, the association will present a President’s Award for the first time since 2015 as well as two lifetime achievement […]

Eli Lilly, Boehringer Ingelheim’s Jardiance clinches heart failure edge with FDA nod for wider label fkansteiner Thu, 02/24/2022 – 14:11

Drug industry executives are worried that sanctions against Russian banks may impact remittances of outstanding trade receivables from that country.

A new portfolio of chromatography and mass spectrometry consumables launched by Thermo Fisher Scientific is designed to meet higher performance requirements while remaining economical.

An anti-tumor drug promotes weight loss in mice at low doses by activating a natural hunger-suppressing pathway, according to a new study. The results provide […]

TFF Pharmaceuticals announces findings that inhaled niclosamide significantly inhibits viral replication of the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2.

Fueled by the rapid uptake of remote work and sustained by the move to hybrid frameworks, video calling platform Zoom remains one of the most […]

COVID-19 deaths are falling nationwide but 10 states are still seeing higher daily death averages than recorded two weeks prior.

Medicago and GSK have announced that Health Canada has approved COVIFENZ, an adjuvanted plant-based COVID-19 vaccine.

USP is developing mRNA quality guidelines to help companies and regulators bring innovative medicines to market faster.

It’s difficult to do a normal blog post today. I’ve known and worked with a number of Ukrainian chemists over the years. The country’s chemical […]

HHS will distribute more than $560 million in phase-4 Provider Relief Fund payments to more than 4,100 providers.

A group of Air Force officers is suing the service in an Ohio federal court after being denied religious exemptions to the COVID-19 vaccine mandate.The […]

Researchers have uncovered a new role of a chromatin-modulatory enzyme, termed EZH2, during cancer development. They then designed a new small-molecule, MS177, based on the […]

Six cardiologists who recently joined new practices or stepped into new roles: 

Here are seven recalls drug companies issued in February, as listed by the FDA.

The U.S. Department of Justice sued to block UnitedHealth Group $13 billion proposed acquisition of health IT company Change Healthcare, and the insurer said it […]

About 40 percent of CVS Caremark clients saw negative specialty drug trends during the first three quarters of 2021, according to a report the pharmacy […]

Teva, Endo and more back on the hook in San Francisco opioid trial fkansteiner Thu, 02/24/2022 – 11:23

Merck KGaA pledges $550M in manufacturing upgrades after closing buyout of mRNA CDMO Exelead kdunleavy Thu, 02/24/2022 – 11:20

From EHR systems to patient mobile applications, hospitals and health systems are deploying digital tools that have transformed the way they deliver patient-centric care.

Lifespan and Care New England’s boards decided “not to pursue litigation,” according to a joint statement released Wednesday.

Several hospitals are trimming their workforces due to financial and operational challenges, and some are offering affected workers new positions.

COVID-19 cases have fallen significantly since mid-January, when omicron peaked in the U.S. Still, no state has achieved a low transmission rate, based on the […]

North Dakota is seeing a higher average rate of daily COVID-19 hospitalizations per 100,000 people than any other state, surpassing West Virginia, which held the […]

The Florida State Senate on Wednesday approved Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R-Fla.) nominee to be the state’s Surgeon General who has publicly opposed federal health policies to combat […]

Hospitals’ use of remote patient monitoring has exploded during the pandemic, and many providers are exploring ways to further leverage the technology. Here, innovation executives […]

Los Angeles County is relaxing its indoor mask requirements as the spread of COVID-19 reduces in the area.Beginning Friday, various establishments, businesses and venues are […]

Rusan Pharma Ltd- Walk-In Interview for QC / Plant Head On 26th Feb’ 2022 Job Description Greetings from Rusan Pharma Limited!!! Department: Quality Control (API Manufacturing […]

Global COVID-19 cases overall are declining, but sequences of the BA.2 omicron subvariant are rising, with the strain now dominant in 18 countries, the World […]

Two leaders at Southfield, Mich.-based Beaumont Health have been promoted as three others plan to leave the health system. 

Silver City, N.M.-based Gila Regional Medical Center is negotiating the departure of Kathleen Cahill as CEO of the county-owned facility, the hospital confirmed to Becker’s.