The Department of Health and Human Services has unveiled the first set of Part B prescription drugs that will be subject to Medicare inflation rebates because they raised their prices faster than inflation. Under prescription drug law, prescription drug companies have to pay back Medicare if they raise prices on seniors at a higher rate than inflation. From next month, some Medicare beneficiar
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has authorized bivalent Pfizer-BioNTech covid-19 vaccine as booster dose for certain children 6 months through 4 years of age. In a statement, the health regulator said it has amended the emergency use authorization or EUA of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine, Bivalent. According to the agency, children 6 months through 4 years of age who completed ...
Key findings from the 2022 World Air Quality Report reveal the dangerous levels of air pollution measured in most of the 131 countries and regions under study. 118 countries exceeded the WHO annual PM2.5 guideline value of 5 µg/m3, says IQAir's 5th Annual World Air Quality Report. The top five most polluted countries in 2022 were Chad (89.7 µg/m3 - more than 17 times higher than the WHO annual g
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