Tag: Pandemics
Eli Lilly weight loss drug tirzepatide data released
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 [...]
Eli Lilly (LLY) Q1 earnings 2023
Medical bottles and syringe are seen with Eli Lilly and Company logo displayed on a screen in the background in this illustration photo taken in Krako [...]
Mpox shows smallpox risk, vaccine maker Bavarian Nordic says
A health care worker prepares a dose of the JYNNEOS Monkeypox vaccine at a pop-up vaccination clinic in Los Angeles, California, on August 9, 2022.Pat [...]
Drug company CEOs will testify at Senate Health on insulin price
In this photo illustration, an insulin pen manufactured by the Novo Nordisk company is displayed on March 14, 2023 in Miami, Florida.Joe Raedle | Gett [...]
Supreme Court rules on abortion pill mifepristone
Demonstrators rally in support of abortion rights at the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, April 15, 2023. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds | AFP | Getty I [...]
Seniors, immunocompromised can receive additional omicron shots
Sylvester Fisher gets a influenza vaccine from pharmacist Patricia Pernal during an event hosted by the Chicago Department of Public Health at the So [...]
Most nursing home residents have not received omicron booster
Less than 50% of nursing home residents, one of the country's most vulnerable populations to severe illness from Covid-19, have received an omicron bo [...]
Biden administration makes at-home Covid tests available for free again this winter
Take home COVID-19 self testing kits provided by the District of Columbia government, which provides city residents four free take home tests per day, [...]
BQ, XBB omicron subvariants pose serious threat to boosters
Evusheld injection, a new COVID treatment that people can take before becoming symptomatic, in Chicago on Friday, Feb. 4, 2022.Chris Sweda | Tribune N [...]
Marijuana sales decline after pandemic surge
A customer lights a joint at Lowell Farms, America's first official Cannabis Cafe offering farm-to-table dining and smoking of cannabis in West Hollyw [...]
Covid and flu hospitalizations increasing, RSV declining
Healthcare workers treat a Covid-19 patient on the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) floor at Hartford Hospital in Hartford, Connecticut, U.S., on Monday, Jan [...]
Children under age 5 now eligible for omicron vaccines
Luca Moore, 11 months, receives a vaccine against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) while his mother Dr. Danielle Smith holds him at Northwell Health [...]
Pfizer rejects Moderna claim it copied Covid vaccine, accuses rival of rewriting history
Pfizer has rejected allegations made by rival Moderna that its Covid-19 vaccine is a copy, accusing the Boston biotech company of rewriting history to [...]
Biden administration will end monkeypox public health emergency
People line up to get a monkeypox vaccination at a new walk-up monkeypox vaccination site at Barnsdall Art Park on Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022 in Hollywood, [...]
FDA pulls antibody bebtelovimab because not effective against omicron BQ.1
An Eli Lilly and Company pharmaceutical manufacturing plant is pictured at 50 ImClone Drive in Branchburg, New Jersey, March 5, 2021.Mike Segar | Reut [...]