Category: healthcare

Despite Falling Stock Of This Medicare Litigation Firm, Its SPAC Deal Mints Two Billionaires

Shares of MSP Recovery tumbled more than 50% on Tuesday, the first day of trading as a newly-merged SPAC, but its founder and chief legal officer are now billionaires.

Peanut Butter Product Recall Expanded Beyond Jif Due To 12-State Salmonella Outbreak

Just three days after J.M. Smucker Company had voluntarily recalled certain lots of their Jif brand peanut butter products, Cargill issued their own recall of peanut buttery products.

Pfizer Offers Low-Cost Drugs And Vaccines—Including Covid Treatments—To World’s Poorest Countries

Pfizer said it would sell its patented medicines and vaccines—including for Covid-19, breast cancer and pneumonia—to low-income countries on a not-for-profit basis.

Telehealth’s Newest Frontier: Emergency Medicine

Tele-triage, tele-care, and virtual rounds: just a few ways that remote emergency medicine is being envisioned.

Smallpox Antiviral May Help Ease Monkeypox Symptoms, Study Says

The U.S. Strategic National Reserve includes 1.7 million doses of tecovirimat—a smallpox treatment that might also be effective against monkeypox, a rare disease that has been diagnosed in dozens of American and European patients in recent weeks.

Strenuous Exercise Causes Massive Increase In Respiratory Aerosol Production

The researchers suggest their findings may explain why so many Covid-19 superspreader events occur at indoor fitness venues.

Billionaire Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel Pledges Stock Options Worth $355 Million To Undisclosed Charitable Causes

Despite a steep Moderna stock crash this year, the longtime biotech executive has amassed a $4.6 billion fortune.

Monkeypox Outbreak ‘Not Normal’ But ‘Containable’ As Confirmed Cases Grow, WHO Says

Sylvie Briand, the WHO’s director for Global Infectious Hazard Preparedness said it isn’t clear whether the monkeypox outbreak is just the “tip of the iceberg” or if transmission has already peaked.

Butterfly Network Inks Deal To Provide Portable Ultrasound Devices To Medical University Of South Carolina

The company’s devices will be used in clinical and research settings first before being introduced to the medical school.

“No More Government Overreactions!”: Steve Forbes Tears Into Covid-19 Restrictions

Let’s have no more Covid overreactions from government.