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Robert Califf became the new commissioner of the U.S. Food & Drug Administration and emphasized the use of real-world evidence (RWE) in Agency decisions.
Several cases of Japanese encephalitis have been confirmed in Australia and may have spread from pigs to humans, although it can also spread from horses.
Members of the Sackler family will dedicate at least $5.5 billion plus 100% of the debtors’ assets to opioid abatement and victims.
On Wednesday, Massachusetts-based ConforMIS said it was suspending all distribution of its orthopedic medical devices to Russia and any Russian-based entities.
President Biden announced updates to the “Test to Treat” initiative that will allow people to get tested for COVID at a pharmacy and receive a treatment round of Pfizer’s Paxlovid at no cost.
Throughout history, many different countries have had their biopharma supply chains changed – sometimes profitably, sometimes detrimentally – by war.
The National Brain Tumor Society is investing over $1 million in the DNA damage response consortium’s start. Here’s how this consortium will help researchers.
Health authorities in Malawi discovered an outbreak of wild poliovirus type 1 on Thursday. The announcement comes after a case was detected in a young child in Lilongwe.
The COVID-19 pandemic and the virus that causes it, SARS-CoV-2, has been resilient, unpredictable and confounding from the very beginning.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is under fire for failing to publish large swaths of hospitalization data related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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