At the end of February, the Centers forDisease Control and Prevention (CDC)reported that the 2014-15 seasonal influenza vaccine was just 18 percent effective against the dominant strain of flu.
Title II of the Drug Quality and Security Act (DQSA), known as theDrug Supply Chain Security Act(DSCSA), took effect on January 1, 2015.
Under the Affordable Care Act, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) awarded millions in health grants in 2014.
In June, the U.S. Supreme Court voted 5-4 to allow a key exemption to the Affordable Care Act’s contraception coverage requirements, meaning closely held, for-profit businesses can assert a religious objection.
A new Drug Enforcement Administration regulation allows pharmacies,hospitals, clinics and other authorized collectors such as long-term care facilities to serve as authorized drop-off sites for unused prescription drugs.
A proposed rule by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services would add to the list of Medicare-reimbursable telehealth activities, as well as pay for telehealth services in rural areas nearer big cities under a geographical expansion.
Interim Phase II/III and III findings of a study conducted by CSLBehring demonstrate an improved pharmacokinetic profile of recombinant fusion protein linking coagulation factor IX with recombinant albumin (rIX-FP) among hemophiliaB patients in all age groups.
Baxter’s Phase III clinical trial of BAX855, an investigational, extended half-life recombinant factor VIII (rFVIII) treatment for hemophilia A based on ADVATE (Antihemophilic Factor[Recombinant]), has met its primary endpoint in reducing annualized bleeding rates (ABR) in the prophylaxis arm compared with the on-demand arm.
Eight consecutive patients with acute-onset purpura fulminans (PF) secondary to systemic bacterial infection survived following treatment with a licensed human plasma-derived protein C concentrate (Ceprotin, Baxter Healthcare) in conjunction with standard sepsis therapy.
An analysis of 67 research studies published in the July 1 edition of Pediatrics has found that serious complications related to vaccines are very rare, and there is no evidence that immunizations cause autism.
The Department of Health andHuman Services (HHS) will allow certain hospitals to receive discounts on orphan drugs when they are used for non-orphan conditions, despite a ruling by the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia that HHS did not have the authority to do so.
bioCSL has announced the donation of more than 700,000 doses of its influenza vaccine to the Partnership for Influenza Vaccine Introduction.
