Angelica LaVito
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New York, NY, United States
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The Next RNA Breakthrough? Maybe Bending Strands Into Circles
Investors flock to biotech startup Orna Therapeutics on the promise of low-cost treatment. → Read More
Majority of NFL Teams Have Immunized 95% of Players as Season Begins
Seventeen of the National Football League’s 32 teams have vaccinated 95% of their players against the coronavirus, according to league officials, with a new season set to begin this week. → Read More
CDC Advisers Back Use of Pfizer-BioNTech Vaccine in Adolescents
A group of medical experts said children ages 12 to 15 years old can safely take the Covid-19 vaccine made by Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE, opening an important new phase of the U.S. immunization effort. → Read More
White House to Reallocate Vaccines Based on State Demand
President Joe Biden’s administration told governors Tuesday that it would begin reallocating vaccines that go unclaimed by states -- essentially clawing back unwanted doses from places where the pace of shots is lagging in order to steer them elsewhere, three people familiar with the call said. → Read More
CDC Advisers Reaffirm Backing of J&J’s Vaccine After Pause
A panel of medical experts reaffirmed their support for Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine, setting the stage for regulators to allow use of the shot to resume after a pause to study rare, severe blood clots in some recipients. → Read More
Covid Battle Pivots to New Tactics to Get Shots to All Americans
Having made its way through those who lined up eagerly to get vaccinated for Covid-19, the campaign to inoculate every American is now slowing down with surplus supply and open appointments appearing in pockets nationwide. → Read More
J&J Shot’s Future Depends on 15 Cautious Vaccine Experts
Advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are under pressure to decide whether the U.S. can resume use of Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine, perhaps with some limits, 10 days into a pause on using it. → Read More
Despite ‘Right to Try’ law, experimental drugs still often elude patients: ‘I just want a fighting chance’
The Right to Try law was intended to make it easier for companies to provide experimental drugs by sidestepping regulators. But it doesn’t require them to provide the drugs. → Read More
NYC Says Vaccines May Be Available to All as Soon as Late April
New York City could offer Covid-19 vaccines to all residents by late April, the city’s health commissioner said Wednesday in an interview with Bloomberg News. → Read More
CDC Sets Guidance for Schools to Reopen Safely During Pandemic
Schools should use masks and social distancing to safely resume in-person learning as soon as possible, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended Friday. → Read More
If They Nail Vaccinations, Drugstores Will Be the Heroes of 2021
CVS, Walgreens, and Walmart have pharmacies almost everywhere, experience administering shots, and are standing by to help speed along the troubled rollout. → Read More
White House Turns to Corporate America to Fix Testing Shortfall
The Trump administration is leaning heavily on the nation’s drug retailers and lab-testing companies to try to solve a problem that has vexed it since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic: Getting mass testing up and running smoothly. → Read More
White House Turns to Corporate America to Fix Testing Shortfall
The Trump administration is leaning heavily on the nation’s drug retailers and lab-testing companies to try to solve a problem that has vexed it since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic: Getting mass testing up and running smoothly. → Read More
Vaping could increase health risks tied to COVID-19, FDA says
Vaping may leave users with underlying health conditions at higher risk of serious complications if they contract the respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus, the Food and Drug Administration said. → Read More
U.S. Vaccine Data Reveal Big Racial Gaps in Who’s Getting Shots: Covid-19 Tracker
The coronavirus pandemic has exposed underlying racial inequalities in U.S. healthcare. That inequality seems to extend to Covid-19 vaccinations: more White and Asian Americans are receiving the shots than Blacks or Hispanics. → Read More
CVS Shuffles Executive Roles With Drug-Plan Chief Set to Depart
(Bloomberg) -- CVS Health Corp. unveiled a series of management changes, including appointing a new chief for its pharmacy-benefit management business, as the health giant absorbs insurer Aetna, its biggest-ever acquisition, and makes over more of its drugstores.The company said in a statement Wednesday → Read More
Study finds more teens vaping marijuana even as mysterious lung illness claims young lives
Fourteen percent of 12th graders said they vaped marijuana in the previous month, nearly double the rate from 2018, the National Institutes of Health says. → Read More
FDA authorizes low-nicotine cigarettes by 22nd Century Group for public sale
The FDA cleared applications from 22nd Century Group for its Moonlight and Moonlight Menthol cigarettes, which contain less nicotine than conventional cigarettes. → Read More
Juul revolutionized e-cigarettes — and now the industry's in jeopardy
Juul's success led the surge of the e-cigarette industry over the past decade, but teen vaping and health concerns have put the future in jeopardy. → Read More
Senate panel advances Trump's nominee for FDA commissioner
The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions approved Hahn's nomination in an 18 to 5 vote, sending his nomination to the full Senate. → Read More