STAT

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Children’s hospitals were spared from the worst ravages of the pandemic, putting them in a much stronger financial position than their acute-care peers. The result, according to a new Fitch report , is children’s hospitals have more cash and stronger margins than larger hospitals.

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STAT

MARCH 7, 2024

A new monoclonal antibody product to protect against respiratory syncytial virus was 90% effective at preventing little children from being hospitalized with RSV, according to new data from the first season it was in use.

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STAT

OCTOBER 31, 2022

An investigation by Kaiser Health News in 2021 showed that nearly all of the Covid-19 vaccine registration websites reviewed weren’t accessible to people who are blind, a major violation of disability rights laws in the middle of a public health emergency. Read the rest…

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STAT

JANUARY 9, 2023

Moderna disclosed Monday that it plans to price its Covid-19 vaccine at anywhere from $110 to $130 per dose when the company pivots from a focus on government contracts to commercial distribution efforts. The timing was not disclosed, but the company is holding talks with hospitals, pharmacy chains and pharmacy benefit managers.

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STAT

AUGUST 20, 2024

Even when people like me are vaccinated against the virus, we are at higher risk of being infected and are more likely to experience adverse health outcomes, including hospitalization and death. Unfortunately, my lifesaving medication also makes me more susceptible to infectious diseases like measles, the flu, and Covid-19.

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STAT

MAY 4, 2023

Food and Drug Administration licensed the first-ever vaccine for respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV , completing an elusive quest that has been decades in the making , STAT writes. A vaccine that was developed by Pfizer and aimed at the same demographic is expected to be approved by the end of the month.

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Pharma Times

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Novel tuberculosis vaccine tested in a large phase 3 trial against severe respiratory infection disease

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STAT

OCTOBER 13, 2022

… Newly released data showed a GSK vaccine for respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, was 82.6% RSV is a leading cause of pneumonia in toddlers and the elderly, causing thousands of hospitalizations and deaths each year, but the complex molecular structure of the virus and safety concerns have stymied efforts to develop a vaccine.

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STAT

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Flu hospitalizations are also on the rise. At the same time, hospitals across the country are filling up with children who’ve contracted RSV — a virus that causes common cold-like symptoms that can sometimes lead to serious illness, particularly in infants and older adults.

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STAT

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

As of Friday afternoon, the organ recipient, a 58-year-old Navy veteran and former vaccine researcher at the National Institutes of Health named Lawrence Faucette, is awake, able to sit in a chair and breathe on his own, and his new heart is pumping without help from supportive devices, hospital officials said in a statement.

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STAT

APRIL 19, 2023

The result was scores of infants and toddlers in need of hospitalization, greatly exceeding the capacities of our nation’s hospitals.

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STAT

JULY 19, 2024

He often appeared on public service announcements in a white lab coat emblazoned with“N-Y-C” in big, bold letters, urging urbanites to mask up , get tested , and get vaccinated. Read the rest…

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Pharma Times

DECEMBER 11, 2023

New data highlights the inequalities in emergency hospital rates and vaccinations - News - PharmaTimes

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STAT

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has been working since last year on rules governing masks and vaccination requirements in hospitals.

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STAT

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released data Friday indicating that the newer two-strain Covid booster shots provide substantial protection against illness and hospitalization, even in the previously vaccinated.

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ID Stewardship

MARCH 7, 2025

Although I have practiced in the area of infectious diseases pharmacy for quite a while now, measles has not been of much clinical relevance to me beyond MMR for routine vaccination. Vaccination is the best way to prevent measles This is an obvious one, but necessary to state right out the gate. MMR is given in 2 doses.

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STAT

AUGUST 31, 2022

WASHINGTON — Federal health officials are starting to push new, variant-targeting vaccines that they say will curb a winter coronavirus wave and protect America’s most medically vulnerable people. The question is whether Americans feel any urgency to get them. Read the rest…

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NY Times

AUGUST 3, 2021

The Food and Drug Administration’s move is expected to kick off more vaccination mandates for hospital workers, college students and federal troops.

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STAT

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Those taking Ozempic also had 32% lower odds of needing to be readmitted to the hospital, with no increase in risk for postoperative complications. Semaglutide is sold under the name Wegovy for weight loss. Novo Holdings, the controlling shareholder of Novo Nordisk, plans to invest about $35 billion by 2030 , Reuters writes.

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STAT

MAY 2, 2024

They include things such as controlling blood sugar for people with diabetes, ensuring that eligible adults are screened for colon and breast cancer, and guaranteeing that children are up to date on their vaccines and are receiving topical fluoride treatments. But the number of quality metrics has ballooned.

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STAT

JULY 2, 2024

judge refused to block a Mississippi law requiring drugmakers to offer discounts on medicines dispensed by third-party pharmacies that contract with hospitals and clinics serving low-income population s, Reuters writes. District Judge Halil Ozerden in Gulfport, Miss., 

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STAT

JUNE 7, 2023

 government will launch a $50 million pilot program to explore how new weight-loss drugs such as Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy can be given to more obese patients outside of specialist services in hospitals , Reuters writes. government said the program would reduce pressure on hospitals. The move comes after the U.K.’s

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STAT

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

This year’s flu shot generated relatively robust levels of protection, new data show, with the vaccine’s effectiveness ranging between about 45% and 55%, depending on the age group and the metric studied, such as whether there was protection against any infection or infection that was severe enough to require hospitalization.

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STAT

JULY 21, 2023

and around the world to obtain needed medicines the next time they visit a hospital, STAT explains. The tornado that struck parts of North Carolina on Wednesday not only damaged the immediate area, but could soon make it much harder for countless people across the U.S. Among the damaged buildings was a Pfizer plant in Rocky Mountain, N.C.,

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The Pharmacist

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Hospital admission rates for flu and Covid are more than two times higher for people living in more deprived areas, the analysis by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has concluded. […] The post Covid and flu hospital admissions twice as high in deprived areas, UKHSA warns appeared first on The Pharmacist.

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STAT

JULY 17, 2023

1 cause of hospitalization of babies in this country. 3 to vote on whether to recommend the antibody, and on whether to add it to the Vaccines for Children program, which would require the federal government to pay for it for children without health insurance. A special meeting of the ACIP has been set for Aug. Read the rest…

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NY Times

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

The study found that the shots’ effectiveness in preventing hospitalization fell to 77 percent from 91 percent four months after full vaccination.

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NY Times

AUGUST 23, 2021

The move was expected to kick off a round of new vaccination mandates from hospitals, schools and private companies.

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STAT

JANUARY 18, 2023

Notably, the slightly higher projection “may be the continuation of a trend toward expectations for double-digit increases” for prescription medicines in the future, wrote analysts at Cowen, who queried 26 hospitals, pharmacy benefit managers, and health maintenance organizations that purchased about $90 billion in medicines in 2022.

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LifeProNow

MAY 4, 2023

FDA approved Arexvy, the first respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine approved for use in the United States. RSV leads to approximately 60,000-120,000 hospitalizations and 6,000-10,000 deaths among adults 65 years of age and older. May 03, 2023: “The U.S. director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research.

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STAT

MAY 19, 2023

Food and Drug Administration advisory panel recommended the agency approve a Pfizer RSV vaccine, although the panelists expressed some safety concerns , STAT writes. The But on a second question — whether the available data support the safety of immunization with this vaccine — the committee voted 10-4.

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STAT

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Her struggle with shingles, which sent her to the hospital in February and contributed to the deterioration of her health — leading to encephalitis and facial paralysis — also reflects the great shifts regarding that disease.

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Community Pharmacy

MARCH 26, 2024

Vaccinations are among the most powerful tools modern medicine provides for public health. It’s estimated that before 2040, as many as 50 million deaths will be prevented by their protection, and whether it’s measles, hepatitis, or COVID-19 and its variants, vaccines save lives around the world.

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LifeProNow

APRIL 21, 2023

FDA amended the emergency use authorizations (EUAs) of the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 bivalent mRNA vaccines to simplify the vaccination schedule for most individuals. This action includes authorizing the current bivalent vaccines (original and omicron BA.4/BA.5 April 18, 2023: “The U.S.

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European Pharmaceutical Review

OCTOBER 24, 2023

PENBRAYA (meningococcal groups A, B, C, W and Y vaccine), the first and only pentavalent vaccine that provides the broadest serogroup coverage of any meningococcal vaccine available in the US for meningococcal disease in individuals aged 10 to 25 years old, has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

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Express Pharma

MARCH 5, 2025

Belgium, particularly the Wallonia region, has been a European hub for vaccine and biotherapeutics development, biopharmaceutical companies, biotech startups, and research institutions. GSK contributes to more robust, long-term vaccine access worldwide. Through partnerships with Indian companies like Bharat Biotech and Biological E.,

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STAT

MARCH 6, 2023

Still, when doctors told her last year that the cancer was growing despite two operations, radiation therapy, and a fifth regimen of chemotherapy, the retired business-meeting facilitator decided to do something unorthodox: spend $83,000 out of pocket on an unproven experimental cancer vaccine.

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