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Syringe with Covid-19 vaccine against XBB variant. Fight against the virus Covid-19 coronavirus, vaccination and immunization. undefined undefined | Istock | Getty Images U.S. Food and Drug Administration officials said Monday that updated Covid boosters for the upcoming fall-winter vaccination campaign should target XBB-omicron subvariants. The US should recommend a monovalent vaccine against XBB.1.5, XBB.1.16 …

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Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) arrives at the US Capitol on June 1, 2023 in Washington, DC. Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images Senator Bernie Sanders on Wednesday called on the US Department of Health and Human Services to take action to ensure seniors can actually afford expensive Leqembi Alzheimer’s treatment. Sanders, chair of the Senate Health …

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Workers work on a production line at the Qilu Pharmaceutical factory in Haikou, east China’s Hainan province, 11 February 2022. Su Bikun | vcg | Getty Images The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the temporary importation of an unapproved chemotherapy drug from China to help alleviate the acute shortage of cancer drugs in …

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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 37 million people in the United States have diabetes. That is just over 11% of the total population. A diabetic’s body does not produce enough insulin, or no insulin at all. Sick people need to check their blood sugar regularly. This is traditionally done …

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New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy Scott Mill | CNBC New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy said Wednesday he would consider defying the Supreme Court and continuing to provide mifepristone if the court rules in favor of a ban on the abortion pill. When asked if the state would prescribe mifepristone following such a ruling, Murphy told …

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Mifepristone, the first drug in a medical abortion, is prepared for a patient April 20, 2023 at the Alamo Women’s Clinic in Carbondale, Illinois. Evelyn Hockstein Reuters A federal appeals court Wednesday afternoon will hear arguments in a closely watched lawsuit aimed at removing the abortion pill mifepristone from the US market. The hearing in …

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A person walks next to the Google Cloud logo at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, ​​Spain, on February 27, 2023. Sweet Nacho | Reuters Google Cloud on Tuesday launched two new AI-powered tools designed to help biotech and pharmaceutical companies accelerate drug discovery and advance precision medicine. A tool called the Target and …

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A woman receives a booster dose of Moderna coronavirus vaccine (COVID-19) at a vaccination center in Antwerp, Belgium, February 1, 2022. Johanna Geron | Reuters The National Institutes of Health announced Monday that patients are now enrolling in an early clinical trial to test a universal influenza vaccine based on messenger RNA technology. Scientists hope …

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A health care worker prepares a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at a immunization clinic at the Peabody Institute Library in Peabody, Massachusetts on Wednesday, January 26, 2022. Vanessa Leroy | Bloomberg | Getty Images For now, uninsured Americans will continue to have free access to Covid-19 vaccines even after the US public health …

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In most states, Americans will no longer receive notifications of a Covid infection on their smartphones after the end of the US public health emergency. As of 2020, almost 30 countries are using a Bluetooth system developed by Apple And Google to track the spread of Covid infections and to send push notifications to all …

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