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Valisure also detected the carcinogen in hand sanitizers earlier this year

Note that some links may require registration or subscription. Moderna announced that its phase III TeenCOVE trial met the primary endpoint, with its COVID vaccine in kids ages 12 to 17 demonstrating non-inferior immunogenicity versus an adult comparator group, and showing 93-100% efficacy after the second dose. Describing the "scandalous inequity" in global COVID-19 vaccine distribution, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, PhD, called on wealthier countries to donate enough supply...

email article The University of Pennsylvania Health System and RWJBarnabas Health have joined Houston Methodist in mandating employees get vaccinated against COVID-19, spokespeople for the two health systems confirmed Thursday. Penn Medicine in Philadelphia is dictating all clinical and other employees get fully inoculated by September 1. RWJBarnabas in New Jersey is requiring supervisors and executives to be fully vaccinated by June 30; the system has not issued a mandate for all employe...

Ohio MD pleaded guilty to lying on grant applications, planned to share research with China

email article Welcome to the latest edition of Investigative Roundup, highlighting some of the best investigative reporting on healthcare each week. Pharmacy Chains Waste Vaccine CVS and Walgreens alone have accounted for more than half of the thousands of wasted COVID-19 vaccine doses, according to an analysis of public data conducted by Kaiser Health News ( KHN). KHN revealed that, of 182,874 total wasted doses documented by the CDC as of late March, about half were unused by CVS and 2...

email article A Minnesota arbitrator has decided that Allina Health must reinstate former nurse Cliff Willmeng, RN, but it does not have to issue him back pay. The arbitrator also ruled that the systems United Hospital didnt fail to maintain a safe work environment by dictating nurses use their own scrubs early in the pandemic. Willmeng was fired last May for wearing hospital-issued scrubs instead of his own. A state nursing board case against him was dropped recently, and he still has an...

email article Houston Methodist has told all 26,000 employees that they need to get vaccinated against COVID-19 by June 7, or theyll be fired, a spokesperson confirmed to MedPage Today. In phase 1 of its mandate, the health system required management and new employees to get vaccinated. Now, employees, including physicians, will need to get their shots or secure a religious or medical exemption from its human resources department. Those who dont meet the deadline are being placed on a 2-...

President Biden is expected to announce new CDC guidance on outdoor masking on Tuesday. ( CNN) Check back later on MedPage Today for the full story. Meanwhile, some public health experts say fully vaccinated people should continue masking when gathering in public. ( Washington Post) Over the coming months, the U.S. plans to unload all 60 million doses of its AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, assuming they clear a federal safety review. ( AP) As of Tuesday at 8:00 a.m. EDT, the unofficial U.S. COVI...

email article As the quest to diagnose and treat chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in the living continues, Boston Universitys CTE Center will examine the brains of two recently deceased former NFL players, including one who committed a terrible crime. One belonged to Vincent Jackson, 38, who was found dead in a Florida hotel room in February, with no cause yet determined; the other is from Phillip Adams, 32, who shot six people to death last week -- including a well-known local ph...

email article Following through on a promise made last month, HHS on Thursday formally moved to rescind the Trump administrations "gag rule" that bars clinicians who receive Title X funding from discussing, offering, or referring patients for abortions. Under President Trump, HHS had instituted the rule in February 2019, requiring "clear financial and physical separation between Title X funded projects and programs or facilities where abortion is a method of family planning." That erected...