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Kyle Reinhardt, 53, got stellar evaluations and made $325,000 a year at Guidehouse, but he says he soon fell prey to the freewheeling drinking and sexual culture at the consulting firm.

Updated July 20 Tentative opioid deal would provide $26 billion and a new way to regulate painkillers Opioid overdose deaths in the U.S. have claimed more than 500,000 lives since 1999, and Maines drug overdose deaths increased by 33% in 2020. By Meryl Kornfield and Lenny BernsteinThe Washington Post Read Article WASHINGTON — More than two decades and 500,000 overdose deaths after the U.S. opioid epidemic began, the biggest penalty for drug companies’ role in the crisis was announced Tue...

Jan 28, 2021 10:36am Pfizer and BioNTechs COVID-19 vaccine vials contain an extra doses of the in-demand shot, but those doses can only be accessed with a special needle.(Kunal Mahto/iStock/Getty Images Plus/Getty Images) Syringe makers are scrambling to meet demand for so-called low dead space syringes as Pfizer and the U.S. look to squeeze out extra vaccine doses. The specialty needles are needed to eke out a sixth shot in Pfizer and BioNTechs Comirnaty prepared five-dose glass vials. Phy...

Of the 286 million needles and syringes that BD is slated to deliver the US by March, only 40 million will be low dead space ones, the company told the Washington Post. The DPA should bolster supply.

To account for extra doses, Pfizer will ship fewer vaccine vials in US P fizer on Friday announced that it will distribute fewer vials of Covid-19 vaccine doses in the United States than it had originally planned, because the company is now counting the extra vaccine doses that providers have found in the companys vials toward its commitment to deliver 200 million vaccine doses to the country by the end of July. However, extracting the additional doses requires special syringes that are in shor...

Jan 25, 2021 10:56am Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla, Ph.D., said the extra dose now approved in each vial of the companys vaccine would count toward its overall production goal for the year. (Pfizer) When pharmacists discovered a sixth dose could be pulled from vials of Pfizer and BioNTech’s vaccine, rather than the original five, it looked like a solution to supply-constrained vaccine rollouts. But now that the FDA has approved that tactic, Pfizers counting those extra doses toward its established...

The Department of Health and Human Services is scrambling for supply of special syringes. It said it advised the FDA that the move authorizing six doses of the Pfizer vaccine per vial posed hurdles.