New Jersey is the only state sticking to indoor mask mandates for fully vaccinated people following the CDC's more relaxed guidelines. 'We're not ready yet,' its governor said.
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy Jose F. Moreno/The Philadelphia Inquirer/AP Images The CDC said Thursday that fully vaccinated Americans don't need a mask in most places. Every state other than New Jersey has...
Healios raises $10M to scale its mental health platform for children scarred by the COVID-19 pandemic
Heaven knows what will happen to the mental health of children who’ve gone through this past year but if there’s one thing we need right now it’s mental health provision for young people that can scale. And as...
Amazon may launch healthcare business line with at-home COVID test and other diagnostic services
Amazon first started building out its internal COVID-19 testing lab with diagnostic equipment from third-party manufacturers in April 2020. (Amazon Photo / Hardy Wilson) Amazon is reportedly considering launching a new...
GoodRx Picks Its Battles With Amazon And Healthcare Costs
The market is wondering what to make of GoodRx after a mixed earnings report last week. Q1 revenue was up 20 percent, rising to $160.4 million from $133.4 million a year earlier. But net income was a miss — down $27.3 million to $1.7 million, a situation the company attributed to bringing on $46.5 million in stock-based compensation expenses. “We’re transitioning from the COVID crisis into the other healthcare crisis, which is...
Irish Prime Minister says government won't pay ransom after hack forces hospitals to alter services
Ireland’s public health care system on Friday shut down its IT systems in response to what it called a “criminal ransomware attack.” Emergency departments have continued to operate normally, but health officials said in a statement Monday that they were working to get computer systems supporting maternity, infant care and radiology back online. The ransomware intrusion at Ireland’s Health Service Executive (HSE), the $25...
745,000 deaths a year can be linked to long working weeks of 55 hours or more, a WHO study suggests
World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Fabrice Coffrini / AFP via Getty Images Working 55 hours or more a week was linked to 745,000 deaths from strokes and heart disease in 2016, a...
The WHO must invite Taiwan to the World Health Assembly to convince the world it isn't beholden to China
The Taiwan United Nations Alliance Chairman Michael Tsai during a conference in May 2020 about Taiwan's efforts to get into the World Health Assembly organized by the World Health Organization. Walid Berrazeg/SOPA...
Sanofi and GlaxoSmithKline say their COVID-19 vaccine triggers a strong immune response, bolstering the late-comer program's potential as a booster shot
Sanofi CEO Paul Hudson Reuters Sanofi and GlaxoSmithKline said that their experimental COVID-19 vaccine succeeded in a mid-stage trial. The pharma giants plan to launch a pivotal-stage study with 35,000 volunteers...
