Nathan Frei, a former active-duty infantry officer who served from 2011 to 2015, first noticed problems with his hearing in 2013, shortly after returning from training with the US Army. Nate was identified with tinnitus and is now one of more than 200,000 plaintiffs suing 3M over its Combat Arms earplugs. Nathan Frei Former active-duty …
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FDA Approves Pfizer’s Covid-Omicron Booster as Fourth Vaccine for Kids Beneath 5
An employee at the Mainz vaccination center draws up a syringe with the Comirnaty vaccine from Biontech and Pfizer, adapted to the Omicron BA.1 variant. Sebastian Christoph Gollnow dpa | Picture Alliance | Getty Images The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved it on Tuesday Pfizers omicron booster shot for children under the age of …
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Pfizer will carry Seagen’s most cancers medicine to the world on an unprecedented scale, says the CEO
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said on Monday the pharma giant would be able to deliver Seagens Cancer therapy in the world ‘on an unprecedented scale’ with $43 billion acquisition. “We can add value to what Seagen is bringing,” Bourla said in a CNBC interview. “It’s more or less a situation like when mRNA was in …
How Medicare and Medicaid Fraud Turned a $100 Billion Downside for the US
A nondescript row of offices in a bland building tucked away in a quiet suburb of Miami seemed as good a place as any for a medical supply company to rent office space. But this company rented two floors above a regional office of the US Department of Health and Human Services Criminal Investigation Department. …
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California will not renew Walgreens contract over abortion tablet
California will not renew a $54 million contract Walgreens on the drugstore chain’s decision not to sell the abortion pill mifepristone in some states due to legal restrictions. “California will not stand by as businesses cave in to extremists and shut down critical access to reproductive care and freedom,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a …
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Home of Representatives votes to launch details about potential lab leak in Wuhan
Security personnel stand guard outside the Wuhan Institute of Virology during the visit of the World Health Organization (WHO) team tasked with investigating the origins of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Wuhan, China’s Hubei province, 3 February 2021 . Thomas Peter | Reuters The House of Representatives on Friday voted unanimously to release information about …
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North Carolina lawmakers are stepping in to defend restrictions
Boxes of the drug mifepristone, used to induce a medical abortion, are prepared for patients at the Planned Parenthood Health Center in Birmingham, Alabama March 14, 2022. Evelyn Hockstein Reuters A federal judge on Friday allowed North Carolina lawmakers to defend restrictions on the abortion pill mifepristone after the attorney general’s denial. dr Amy Bryant, …
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The Biden price range caps the month-to-month value of insulin for privately insured sufferers at $35
A woman who has had type 1 diabetes since adolescence displays her insulin for injection March 02, 2023 in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images President Joe Biden’s federal budget proposal would limit insulin prices to $35 per month for people with private insurance plans. The Inflation Mitigation Act in January capped monthly …
Eli Lilly’s therapy with solanezumab didn’t decelerate the illness
Eli Lilli on Wednesday said it would halt development of its Alzheimer’s treatment candidate solanezumab after the antibody failed to slow the progression of the disease. The failure of solanezumab is a setback to efforts to treat Alzheimer’s disease in people who are very early in the disease and have not yet presented clinical symptoms. …
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WeightWatchers inventory surges after Sequence deal
shares of WW Internationalalso known as WeightWatchers, soared on Tuesday after the company announced it would buy Sequence, a telehealth platform used to treat obesity. The stock closed 79% higher on Tuesday. Its market value was more than $488 million. “As the trusted leader in weight management, it is our responsibility to support those interested …
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