A committee of leading U.S. vaccine scientists recommended Thursday that the Food and Drug Administration authorize the first COVID-19 vaccine for Americans.
The endorsement paves the way for a final decision by the FDA and mass vaccinations to begin within days in thousands of front-line heath care workers and nursing home residents.
After an eight-hour public hearing, the independent Vaccines and Related Biological...
Pfizer and BioNTech announced Monday their coronavirus vaccine was more than 90% effective in preventing Covid-19 among those without evidence of prior infection, hailing the development as “a great day for science and humanity.”
“I think we can see light at the end of the tunnel,” Pfizer Chairman and CEO Dr. Albert Bourla told CNBC’s Meg Tirrell on “ Squawk Box .” “I...
The Wyoming Action Coalition, managed through the Wyoming Center for Nursing and its partners at the Wyoming Institute for Disabilities (WIND) at the University of Wyoming, is among 10 organizations that will receive up to $25,000 in Nursing Innovations Fund awards for new or ongoing work that addresses nursing’s role in building health equity, well-being and promoting a culture of health.
The announcement was made by the Future of...
Dr. Jonathan Gruber is the Ford Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Director of the Healthcare Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Highly involved in healthcare public policy, he was a key architect of Massachusetts’ health reform efforts, “Romneycare” from 2003 to 2006. As a technical consultant to the Obama Administration from 2009 to 2010, he helped develop the...
The Trump administration, through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), recently announced it has distributed almost $2.5 billion of a planned $5 billion distribution to nursing homes to support increased testing, staffing and personal protective equipment (PPE) needs. This includes $135,903,600 to 951 facilities in Ohio. This funding allocation was made through the Health Resources and Services Administration...
More good news in the pursuit of a COVID-19 vaccine: A fifth vaccine developer has released promising results from a small, early trial.
Novavax Inc., of Gaithersburg, Maryland, released the results via a news release and call with media late Tuesday, showing the vaccine appeared safe and elicited a similar immune response to an active infection with COVID-19.
"Good news," said Dr. William Schaffner, a...
Sue Kinnick introduced the now-familiar bar code scanner in 1995 at the Topeka Veterans Affairs Medical Center . Since then, it has become a standard in the health care industry.
Here is her story.
At the crossroads of technology and patient care stand the nurses who have chosen nursing informatics as their specialty. Today, informatics is an integral part of health care delivery. Health information technology promotes safe,...
Since the passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010 and its activation in 2014, there has been a huge amount of debate about what form our health protection system should take. (I am deliberately avoiding the word health insurance.)
For many, the answer has been very plain and simple: Do away with insurance companies’ involvement in providing protection for people’s health care needs, and have the “government”...
Health sciences is a rewarding field to study as it prompts students and researchers to strive for a safer and healthier world.
For Northeastern University Professor Andrea Grimes Parker and her colleagues, their research in this discipline of applied science led to the development of fitness trackers that aid vulnerable and marginalised populations.
“Existing fitness platforms focus so much on goal setting, data...
In many ways, it is the best of times for those among us who are interested in transforming American health care.
With the emergence of COVID19, there is deep, broad recognition of our deeply fractured system of healthcare and public health and the long road ahead to improve on it. The question is no longer whether we should strengthen our healthcare infrastructure but how.
For the first time, we have broad recognition of both the...