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Moderna Inc. said it is seeking a full approval for its COVID-19 vaccine, a move that could make a shot cleared on an emergency basis during the pandemic into a

For 40 years researchers have tried to block a mutant gene. They’ve now done so with a drug the FDA has approved

May 26, 2021 6:10 AM By Brandon Lee and Alex Ruoff The National Institutes of Health’s emerging technologies agency proposed by the Biden White House won’t detract from the rest of the agency’s $43 billion research portfolio, but it may fold in some existing programs. House Appropriations Chair Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.), whose spending panel has to sign off on President Joe Biden‘s request for a $6.5 billion agency called the Advanced Research Projects Agency for He...

May 11, 2021 7:00 AM By Zachary Sherwood and Brandon Lee President Joe Biden will trade ideas with U.S. governors about how to vaccinate more Americans, after the number of people signing up for shots fell sharply over the last month. Biden will meet today virtually with the leaders of Massachusetts, Utah, Ohio, New Mexico, Maine and Minnesota to discuss “innovative ways governors are working to get the people in their states vaccinated,” White House Press Secretary Jen Ps...

April 1, 2021 6:07 AM By Brandon Lee President Joe Biden’s call to spend $400 billion to expand home and community-based care is raising advocates’ hopes that lawmakers might finally address long-standing challenges the industry, the elderly and people with disabilities face. Biden’s multi-trillion-dollar infrastructure proposal unveiled yesterday included the new funds over eight years to boost access to long-term care under Medicaid, the federal government’s pu...

Sunburn — The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics — 3.1.21 With apologies to the late, great Tim Russert … The top three issues facing the 2021 Florida Legislature are COVID, COVID, COVID. It’s no surprise that just about everything that will happen during the 60-day Session will be directly or indirectly related to the pandemic or influenced by the countless ways it has changed life in our state. From health care policy to the budget, from education policy ...

February 25, 2021 6:06 AM By Brandon Lee Xavier Becerra, President Joe Biden’s pick to lead the Health and Human Services Department, assured lawmakers yesterday that as HHS secretary he’d build on the existing private sector insurance scheme in the U.S. rather than push for Medicare for All. When he was a member of the House, Becerra championed the federal government-operated health-care program that would cover all Americans, in a shift that would effectively wipe out th...

Pfizer details ‘multiple steps’ it’s taking to study booster shots against variants Updated Feb 25, 2021; Posted Feb 25, 2021 A vial of Pfizer and BioNTechs COVID-19 vaccine is seen at Northwell Health at Long Island Jewish Medical Center during a press conference in Queens, New York on December 14, 2020. - . (Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images/TNS)TNS Facebook Share Pfizer Inc. and partner BioNTech SE have begun a clinical study to see if a third shot of their existing Covid-19 vacc...

February 22, 2021 6:09 AM By Brandon Lee Nearly a month after U.S. vaccination campaigns ramped up to give Covid-19 shots to more than a million people a day, their second doses are coming due, straining state rollouts and leaving some without complete immunizations. In Texas alone, almost 6,000 people were overdue for their second shots in early February. In Washington state, health officials said last week that some mass vaccination clinics would be delivering follow-up doses only...

New virus variants raise alarm Filling syringes with vaccines at Fenway Park in Boston (Getty) What happened Even as the U.S. saw a continuing steep drop in Covid-19 cases this week, health officials expressed growing concern about the accelerated spread of new coronavirus variants and their resistance to vaccines’ protection. Maryland and South Carolina reported five cases of the South Africa variant, or B.1.351, which has overwhelmed South Africa and spread to at least 32 countries—...