Epidemiological data suggests populations with the highest measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccination rates often have the fewest deaths from COVID-19.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has broadened access to Medicare telehealth services so beneficiaries can receive a wider range of services from their doctors without having to travel to a healthcare facility.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has launched a campaign to help consumers use the new Nutrition Facts label that appears on packaged foods to maintain healthy dietary practices.
In March, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) finalized two rules that give patients unprecedented safe and secure access to their health data.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is using a $100 billion hospital and provider relief fund to pay hospitals at Medicare rates for uncompensated COVID-19 care for uninsured individuals.
Efgartigimod, an investigational human IgG1 Fc fragment, induced a rapid reduction in total IgG levels and clinically relevant increases in platelet counts in patients with primary immune thrombocytopenia (ITP), according to findings from a Phase II, placebo-controlled multinational study.
A study in previously untreated patients (PUPs) with severe hemophilia A found replacement therapy with a fourth-generation recombinant factor VIII (FVIII) product was associated with an incidence of high-titer inhibitors similar to the rate seen in a landmark trial evaluating plasma-derived FVIII products.
Two analyses by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show the influenza (flu) vaccine can reduce the likelihood of hospitalization in children and death in adults.
A Phase III study has found a trivalent hepatitis B virus (HBV) vaccine demonstrated superiority in adults 45 years and older and noninferior in adults older than 18 years compared with a monovalent vaccine.
Researchers have found combining immune tolerance induction (ITI) with Hemlibra (emicizumab, Roche) is a feasible and safe way of treating children with severe hemophilia A.
A new study shows cardiovascular outcomes may improve in individuals with hypertension if they receive the influenza (flu) vaccine during the flu season.
Researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center in New York City have developed a new type of skin patch that could replace needles as a method to deliver the influenza (flu) vaccine.
