President Joe Biden’s administration is taking steps to expand availability of the life-saving COVID-19 antiviral treatment Paxlovid.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden's administration is taking steps to expand availability of the life-saving COVID-19 antiviral treatment Paxlovid, seeking to reassure doctors that there is ample supply for people at high risk of severe illness or death from the virus.
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President Joe Biden is sending his administration's first national drug control strategy to Congress as the U.S. overdose death toll hit a new record of nearly 107,000 during the past 12 months.
The strategy , released Thursday, is the first national plan to prioritize what's known as harm reduction, said White House drug czar Dr. Rahul Gupta. That means it focuses on preventing death and illness in drug users while...
When Americans go to a hospital or visit a doctor, they expect that the drugs they need will be on the shelf — whether to treat an infection or save a life. They can’t imagine that a hospital might tell them their cancer treatment has to be delayed for weeks because of a drug shortage, or that the safest and most effective medications for their condition simply aren’t available.
It’s not unthinkable:...
CURRY — Mia Daniels is well on her way to a career in medicine.
Daniels, a senior at Curry High, will begin studying nursing at the University of Alabama in Huntsville in the fall. Her goal is to one day be a nurse practitioner and to possibly specialize in neurology or psychology.
Daniels is becoming a nurse because of her brother, Chase Hacker, who was diagnosed with epilepsy when she was 10 and he was 13.
"He went from...