Dr. Mandy Cohen, the head of North Carolina’s health department and face of regular updates on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the state for two years, is stepping down from her post, Gov. Roy Cooper announced Tuesday. “Dr. Cohen, North Carolinians owe you a deep debt of gratitude,” Cooper said during Tuesday’s briefing…
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President Joe Biden’s bid to boost COVID-19 vaccination rates among healthcare personnel hit a roadblock when a federal judge halted its enforcement Tuesday. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services published an interim final rule this month that effectively made COVID-19 inoculations a condition of participation in Medicare and Medicaid, meaning healthcare employers that don’t…
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Prosecutors interrogated Elizabeth Holmes about her response to the investigative article that pierced her company’s rosy image in 2015 as the Theranos founder took the stand for a fifth day of testimony in her criminal fraud trial. Holmes said repeatedly on Tuesday she could not recall details about the tactics prosecutors said the blood-testing start-up…
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US government advisers have narrowly recommended that doctors be allowed to prescribe Merck’s antiviral pill to high-risk patients, paving the way for emergency authorisation of a new Covid-19 treatment amid concerns about the Omicron variant and a recent uptick in infections. Health experts on a US Food and Drug Administration panel voted by a margin…
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Microsoft’s shareholders have overwhelmingly backed a protest vote calling on the technology company to reveal more about its handling of sexual harassment claims, in the shadow of recent cases and the revelation that co-founder Bill Gates had a relationship with an employee. The call amounted to a rare rebellion at Microsoft’s annual shareholder meeting, with…
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Medicare Part D plans should be required to pay pharmacists for counseling patients and dispensing oral antiviral medications that treat COVID-19, organizations representing druggists say. Several promising COVID-19 treatments have emerged in recent weeks, led by a Merck drug that a Food and Drug Administration advisory panel recommended be approved for emergency use on Tuesday.…
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Hospital labor costs continue to rise as nurses leave the profession for higher-paying jobs, requiring providers to reconfigure their workforce. Total labor expenses rose 12.6% from October 2020 to October 2021, and 14.8% from October 2019 to October 2021, according to Kaufman Hall’s analysis of around 900 hospitals. Full-time equivalents per adjusted bed decreased 4.5%…
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David Marcus, the Meta executive tasked with launching its stuttering digital currency project, has announced he is leaving the company at the end of the year. The departure comes after Meta, Facebook’s parent company, suffered a string of setbacks in its attempts to launch ambitious cryptocurrency products, including a new digital token, Diem. In a…
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UK prime minister Boris Johnson on Tuesday pledged to offer all eligible adults in England a Covid-19 booster vaccination by the end of January 2022 in response to the rapid spread of the Omicron variant of coronavirus. Speaking at a televised briefing, Johnson said he recognised the “frustration that we all feel with this Omicron…
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