Category: eHealth

Despite warnings from the CDC, air travel soared over Thanksgiving week — and even more people are expected to travel in the coming weeks ahead of the holidays. POLITICO’s Sam Mintz breaks down what we know — and don’t know…

Fauci went on to defend the Food and Drug Administration, which he called “the gold standard of regulation,” and said the U.S. regulatory agency was carrying out its vaccine approval process “in a very careful way.” Fauci lamented that Americans…

Lujan Grisham, who currently co-chairs Biden’s transition team, had been a leading candidate for HHS secretary but also turned down an offer in recent days to run the Interior Department, according to two sources close to the transition. “It’s a…

Biden vowed on Tuesday to work with Congress to “dramatically ramp up health care protections” and “get Americans universal coverage.” He also reiterated campaign pledges to tackle the prescription drug costs and expand coverage to the millions of uninsured people…

“Authorizing these monoclonal antibody therapies may help outpatients avoid hospitalization and alleviate the burden on our health care system,” FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn said in a press release. Background: President Donald Trump, who received the Regeneron antibody cocktail during his…

As the virus rages across the country, schools are shutting down again — or remain shuttered — even though they haven’t turned out to be the super-spreader sites experts feared. At the same time, many bars and restaurants remain open…

Biden will take office at a crucial moment in the fight against drug addiction. Some states are contending with double-digit spikes in overdose deaths, sparse public health workforces are already stretched thin fighting the coronavirus and widening budget deficits brought…

While federal and state officials agree that the nation’s 21 million health care workers should be first in line for the vaccine, there is no consensus about how to balance the needs of other high-risk groups. Azar said this week…

As the virus rages across the country, schools are shutting down again — or remain shuttered — even though they haven’t turned out to be the super-spreader sites experts feared. At the same time, many bars and restaurants remain open…

Wednesday’s planned one-hour meeting was steered by Rear Adm. Erica Schwartz, the career health department official in charge of the transition, and included attendees like HHS chief of staff Brian Harrison, HHS deputy chief of staff Paul Mango, and Operation…