Modern CEO Stéphane Bancel is due to testify before the Senate Health Committee in March about the company’s price for its Covid-19 vaccine if the shots are sold on the private market. Senator Bernie Sanders, chair of the health panel, confirmed in a statement Wednesday that Bancel would appear at a hearing titled, “Taxpayers paid…

Tek Image/Science Photo Library | Science Photo Library | Getty Images Japanese drugmaker Eisai expects the Food and Drug Administration to fully approve its Alzheimer’s treatment Leqembi this summer, which would expand access to the expensive new antibody under Medicare. US CEO Ivan Cheung said the FDA, which granted accelerated approval in January, could grant…

U.S. senators Friday called for Medicare to offer broad coverage of Alzheimer’s treatments approved by the Food and Drug Administration, warning that the current restrictions are costing patients valuable time as their disease progresses. “Given the progressive nature of this terminal disease, we encourage you to take action now to ensure patients have immediate access…

Philip O’Keefe, one of Synchron’s patients in the SWITCH clinical trial, with his BCI. Source: Synchronous In a Brooklyn lab crammed with 3D printers and a makeshift pickleball rig, employees at a brain-interface startup called Synchron are working on technology that promises to transform the daily lives of people living with paralysis. The Synchron Switch…

US Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) leaves a secret briefing for US senators on the latest unidentified objects shot down by the US military on Capitol Hill in Washington, United States, February 14, 2023. Evelyn Hockstein Reuters Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., will be hospitalized for a few weeks as he seeks treatment for his clinical depression,…

Sharon Kimbrough went to Atlanta’s Black Women’s Expo to sell her memoir. Getting tested for Alzheimer’s was the furthest thing on her mind, but off as nurses Eli Lilli When she approached her about the company’s new process, she decided to have blood drawn. “I had two family members who had Alzheimer’s,” said Kimbrough, a…

The independent advisors to the Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday unanimously recommended over-the-counter use of the nasal spray Narcan to reverse opioid overdoses, which would greatly expand access to the life-saving treatment. Emerging biosolutions‘ Narcan is the top-selling treatment for opioid overdoses. The FDA is expected to make a decision by March 29 on…

House Republicans have named former White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony, asked to testify before Congress as they launch a new investigation into the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic. GOP leaders on the select subcommittee on the coronavirus pandemic and the committee on oversight and accountability sent Fauci a letter Monday asking for a…

People gather in front of the ArtScience Museum at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore on January 17, 2023. (Photo by Roslan RAHMAN/AFP) (Photo by ROSLAN RAHMAN/AFP via Getty Images) Roslan Rahman | AFP | Getty Images SINGAPORE – Singapore is set to allow travelers who have not been fully vaccinated to enter the country without…

Novartis-Fertigungsmitarbeiter überprüft Stempel an einer Komprimiermaschine. Quelle: Novartis 2010 brach in Island ein Vulkan aus. Für Dr. Oliver Sartor, Professor für Krebsforschung an der medizinischen Fakultät der Tulane University, war dies ein Problem. Asche des Ausbruchs störte Flüge in ganz Europa – einschließlich einer zeitkritischen Lieferung einer experimentellen Radioligandentherapie, die Sartor aus Norwegen erwartet hatte.…