A federal judge on Wednesday refused HHS’ request to dismiss AstraZeneca’s challenge to a December advisory opinion from Health and Human Resources Administration blocking drugmakers from charging a covered entity more than the ceiling price for 340B drugs. U.S. District Judge Leonard Stark in Delaware didn’t rule on the wisdom of the policy but said…
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Monique Roffey in London with a poster of her novel ‘The Mermaid of Black Conch’, which is published in paperback this month by Vintage © Monique Roffey In April 2020, as coronavirus spread around the world, Monique Roffey published her seventh book. She went with UK-based Peepal Tree Press, a small Caribbean-focused independent company, to…
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OnlyFans, the online platform where sex workers, influencers and celebrities sell subscription content, is exploring a share sale to new investors. Documents filed with Companies House this week showed that Fenix International, OnlyFans’ UK-based parent company, had increased its share count from 100 to 1m. One person close to the company said management was holding…
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Care home staff in England will have to be immunised against Covid-19 as a condition of keeping their jobs, the government has announced, and the stricture may also be extended to health workers. Under proposed legislation, from October anyone working in a registered care home in England for residents requiring nursing or personal care “must have…
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Google announced today it’s updating and expanding its digital safety and citizenship curriculum called Be Internet Awesome, which is aimed at helping school-aged children learn to navigate the internet responsibly. First introduced four years ago, the curriculum now reaches 30 countries and millions of kids, says Google. In the update rolling out today, Google has…
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Brussels wants to tighten rules to prevent some forms of wood-burning energy from counting towards the EU’s green energy targets after rising pressure from environmental groups and scientists. The European Commission will propose strengthening its “sustainability criteria” to measure whether forms of biomass — which involves combustible pellets made from wood or organic waste —…
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HHS’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology on Wednesday released the first draft of Project [email protected], an effort to create an industrywide data standard for documenting patient addresses in healthcare. Public comment on the draft standard will open July 1 and close July 31. ONC plans to issue a final version of…
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Sony Music Entertainment has acquired Somethin’ Else, the biggest independent producer of audio programmes in the UK, as the record label accelerates its push into the fast-growing global podcast market. The takeover of the company behind The Sun King and Power: The Maxwells is the latest in a series of podcast deals that have seen…
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