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A woman receives a booster dose of the Moderna coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine at a vaccination centre in Antwerp, Belgium, February 1, 2022.Johanna Geron | ReutersPatients are now enrolling in an early stage clinical trial to test a universal flu vaccine based on messenger RNA technology, the National Institutes of Health announced Monday. Scientists hope the vaccine will protect against a wide variety of flu strains and provide long-term immunity so people do not have to receive a shot every year.  related…

A sign outside of a hospital advertises COVID-19 testing on November 19, 2021 in New York City.Spencer Platt | Getty ImagesThe U.S. public health emergency declared in response to Covid-19 comes to an end Thursday more than three years after the pandemic began.The Biden administration's decision to end the emergency comes as deaths and hospitalizations have declined dramatically due to the availability of vaccines, antiviral treatments and widespread exposure to the virus.Deaths from Covid have fallen to their lowest…

The logo of Gilead Sciences pharmaceutical company is seen in Oceanside, California, April 29, 2020.Mike Blake | ReutersA Delaware federal court jury on Tuesday cleared Gilead Sciences of civil claims by the U.S. government that the company violated patents held by the Centers for Disease and Prevention for an HIV prevention drug.The government sued Gilead in 2019, arguing that the company was profiting off CDC patents through the company's sales of Truvada and Descovy, oral medications taken to prevent HIV infection.But…

Bay Area and Los Angeles officials renewed pandemic-era rent laws in cities with high housing costs. Landlords say the laws shield delinquent tenants. Bay Area and Los Angeles officials renewed pandemic-era rent laws in cities with high housing costs. Landlords say the laws shield delinquent tenants. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified.…

U.S. trade with the rest of the world increased in March as companies shipped more oil, natural gas and vehicles overseas and exported more products to China after it lifted Covid restrictions.  U.S. businesses also imported more consumer goods, but reduced imports of industrial supplies and capital goods. The trade figures aren’t adjusted for inflation and reflect both demand and price changes. U.S. trade with the rest of the world increased in March as companies shipped more oil,…

In the intensive care ward of Radboud University Medical Center, a sprawling hospital in the southeastern Netherlands, Paul Verweij was worried. The physician-scientist was accustomed to dealing with very sick patients; as chair of medical microbiology, his job was to identify dire pathogens so the right treatments could be prescribed.One group of patients had the kind of grave illnesses that are frequent in an ICU: blood cancers, immune disorders, end-stage lung disease. But layered on top of those, they all were…

A CVS location in New York, US, on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023.Stephanie Keith | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesCVS Health on Wednesday reported first-quarter results that beat earnings and revenue expectations, but the company lowered its full-year profit guidance due to costs related to recent acquisitions.Shares fell more than 1% in premarket trading Wednesday.Here's what CVS reported compared with Wall Street's expectations, based on a survey of analysts by Refinitiv:Earnings per share: $2.20 adjusted, vs. $2.09 expectedRevenue:…

Gilead Sciences logo displayed on a laptop screen and medical pills are seen in this illustration photo taken in Krakow, Poland on October 18, 2021. (Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images)Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesGilead Sciences and the U.S. government faced off in court Tuesday in the first day of a trial that will probe allegations that the drugmaker violated patents for a crucial HIV prevention drug regimen.The U.S. is trying to enforce four patents issued to the Centers for Disease Control and…

Juanmonino | E+ | Getty ImagesSeniors with early Alzheimer's disease will face major hurdles to get treated even if promising new drugs roll out more broadly in the coming years, putting them at risk of developing more severe disease as they wait months or perhaps years for a diagnosis.The U.S. health-care system is not currently prepared to meet the needs of an aging population in which a growing number of people will need to undergo evaluation for Alzheimer's, according to neurologists, health policy experts and the…

Patients who took Eli Lilly's weight loss drug tirzepatide lost up to 34 pounds on average, or 16% of their body weight, the company said in clinical trial results released Thursday.Eli Lilly plans to complete its application for Food and Drug Administration approval of the drug in the coming weeks and expects regulatory action as early as later this year. The FDA approved tirzepatide for Type 2 diabetes last year, but the drug is not cleared for weight loss.The approval would open "up the opportunity for many more people…