Source By JANIE HARAugust 16, 2020 SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — When the coronavirus emerged in the U.S. this year, public health officials and advocates for the homeless feared the virus would rip through shelters and tent encampments, ravaging vulnerable people who often have chronic health issues. They scrambled to move people into hotel rooms, thinned […]
Source You sometimes hear about lawsuits that result in damage awards with enough zeros to make your mind spin. Millions. Billions. Despite what some people think, filing a lawsuit is never a get-rich-quick scheme. A single lawsuit can take years to get through the courts, the litigation process is expensive and time-consuming. But in some situations, […]
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Source Losartan is not a receptor, but it does block a chemical (angiotensin II), from binding to a receptor, type 1 angiotensin 2 (AT1), which lowers blood pressure. Losartan does not block the virus causing COVID-19, called SARS-CoV-2, but it may reduce the activity of the renin-angiotensin system, which is overactive in people with high […]
Source Published: Dec. 16, 2020 at 11:04 a.m. ET By Jaimy Lee Wall Street analysts expect that the week will end with the FDA granting an emergency use authorization to the company’s experimental vaccine. If the Food and Drug Administration authorizes Moderna Inc.’s COVID-19 vaccine candidate, it will be the second vaccine to be made available […]
Source US-based pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has made the first compensation payment to Nigerian families affected by a controversial drug trial 15 years ago. It paid $175,000 (£108,000) each to four families in the first of a series of payments it is expected to make. The payouts are part of an out-of-court settlement reached in 2009. […]
Source Pharmaceutical company Pfizer, Inc. (Pfizer), based in New York, NY, has agreed to pay $23.85 million to resolve claims that it used a foundation as a conduit to pay the copays of Medicare patients taking three Pfizer drugs, in violation of the False Claims Act, the Justice Department announced today. When a Medicare beneficiary […]
Source Pfizer to Pay $2.3 Billion for Fraudulent Marketing WASHINGTON – American pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc. and its subsidiary Pharmacia & Upjohn Company Inc. (hereinafter together “Pfizer”) have agreed to pay $2.3 billion, the largest health care fraud settlement in the history of the Department of Justice, to resolve criminal and civil liability arising from […]
Source None of the potentially contaminated Johnson & Johnson shots produced at the Baltimore Emergency BioSolutions were ever distributed, but 15 million doses had to be discarded. The latest report says more may be compromised. CBS News: FDA Inspectors Find “Brown Residue” And Other Violations In Plant Making Johnson & Johnson Vaccine The Baltimore factory contracted […]
