The Alzheimer’s treatment will cost $56,000 per patient, and millions may use it. The result: “crazy numbers” for Medicare. View original article Contributor: Josh Katz, Sarah Kliff and Margot Sanger-Katz
(JOHANNESBURG) — The World Health Organization is in talks to create the first-ever technology transfer hub for coronavirus vaccines in South Africa, a move to boost supply to the continent that’s desperately in need of COVID-19 shots, the head of the U.N. agency announced. The new consortium will include drug makers Biovac and Afrigen Biologics … Read more
Even those who supported the F.D.A.’s approval of the controversial new drug said authorizing it for anyone with Alzheimer’s disease was much too broad. View original article Contributor: Pam Belluck
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention analyzed adult vaccination rates by age through May 22, finding 80 percent of adults older than 65 had been immunized compared with just 38.3 percent of 18- to 29-year-olds. View original article Contributor: Akilah Johnson
The advice includes annually reviewing your prescriptions with your doctor, using mail order and doing a spring-cleaning checkup of your meds. View original article Contributor: Hallie Levine
Some people joined because they lost jobs and income, while others continued to get the safety-net insurance because of pandemic rules against removing enrollees. View original article Contributor: Amy Goldstein
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention analyzed adult vaccination rates by age through May 22, finding 80 percent of adults older than 65 had been immunized compared with just 38.3 percent of 18- to 29-year-olds. View original article Contributor: Akilah Johnson
The advice includes annually reviewing your prescriptions with your doctor, using mail order and doing a spring-cleaning checkup of your meds. View original article Contributor: Hallie Levine
Some people joined because they lost jobs and income, while others continued to get the safety-net insurance because of pandemic rules against removing enrollees. View original article Contributor: Amy Goldstein
Fiber can help with weight and has been shown to help lower risk for diabetes and cardiovascular disease, experts say. View original article Contributor: Linda Searing