Health News Loading the player… Pfizer says an early peek at its vaccine data suggests the shots may be 90% effective at preventing COVID-19, indicating the company is on track later this month to file an emergency use application with U.S. regulators. Monday’s announcement doesn’t mean a vaccine is imminent: This interim analysis, from an… Read More »
Celgene needed to sell psoriasis blockbuster Otezla to win an OK to merge with Bristol Myers Squibb, which had a potential rival in the pipeline, and Amgen stepped up with $ 13 billion. Now, that BMS candidate has topped Otezla in a head-to-head study—and Amgen’s quick success with the med could be in jeopardy. In a… Read More »
Dive Brief: Hospitals now must send CMS their seasonal flu data alongside COVID-19 data or risk losing Medicare and Medicaid funding, senior officials announced at a press conference Tuesday. Beginning Wednesday, hospitals will receive notice whether they are in line with current reporting requirements, CMS Administrator Seema Verma said. They will be issued guidance on… Read More »
Universal Health Services issued a statement on Saturday morning saying it is continuing to recover from an IT security issue that led to a network shutdown throughout all its U.S. facilities. “The recovery process has been completed for all servers at the corporate data center. All U.S. based inpatient facilities have connectivity established back to the… Read More »
In the COVID-19 era, most U.S. consumers believe they have an obligation to share personal health information to stop the spread of the coronavirus. However, only 44% would be willing to share their personal data with a national database, a MITRE study learned. Only one-third of Americans would be willing to share their temperature, 29% their… Read More »