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A man wearing a protective face mask walks past an indoor waterfall at Jewel Changi Airport in Singapore. Roslan Rahman | AFP | Getty Images SINGAPORE — Singapore’s government said Friday it will further ease Covid-related restrictions next week, but at a slower pace than previously announced as local infections have not declined significantly. The

Can you mix and match two-dose COVID-19 vaccines? It’s likely safe and effective, but researchers are still gathering data to be sure. The authorized COVID-19 shots around the world are all designed to stimulate your immune system to produce virus-fighting antibodies, though the way they do so varies, noted Dr. Kate O’Brien, director of the

A small, walk-in vaccination clinic held in Waterbury on Thursday is one of the reasons Vermont was able to be the first state in the country to give at least one COVID-19 vaccination shot to 80% of the eligible population. On Thursday seven people were vaccinated at a pop-up clinic held by the Waterbury Ambulance

Mount Sinai researchers have created a neighborhood-level Covid-19 equity index to explore the relationship between socioeconomic disadvantages and infection and mortality rates during the pandemic, the health system announced Thursday. The index was part of a study published this month in Nature Communications. It measured factors including employment, commuting patterns, population density, food access, socioeconomic

Fresh off a merger that grew it to a system of 35 acute-care hospitals, Ochsner Health announced Thursday it plans to get even bigger by combining with a seven-hospital system in Mississippi. Rush Health Systems, based in Meridian, Miss., plans to become part of Ochsner, headquarted in New Orleans, La. The two not-for-profit systems described

The Supreme Court voting to uphold the Affordable Care Act on Thursday was greeted with applause from payers and providers—and the biosimilar drug development industry. While opponents of the ACA large criticized the law’s expansion of insurance and mandates around coverage, undoing the law would have unraveled the federal framework for reviewing and approving biosimilars,

In this article ME Anne Wojcicki, 23andMe co-founder & CEO (right) celebrates with 23andMe employees after remotely ringing the NASDAQ opening bell at the headquarters of DNA tech company 23andMe in Sunnyvale, California, U.S., June 17, 2021. Peter DaSilva | Reuters The newest trade in the stock market is “ME.” Personalized medicine and at-home genetic

Brian E. Keeley, president & CEO of Baptist Health South Florida, will retire in 2022, the system announced Wednesday. Current executive vice president and chief operating officer Albert “Bo” Boulenger will succeed Keeley as president immediately. He’s held his two roles since 2018 and has been with the system since 1985. Keeley will continue as

Former Athenahealth CEO Jonathan Bush has launched a new health record data platform and software services for healthcare agencies to build their own workflow apps. Zus Health recently raised $34 million and plans to create a shared development platform for doctors of any specialty to access their patients’ data, while also empowering digital-first healthcare builders

As the Supreme Court refused to strike down the Affordable Care Act a third time, Modern Healthcare looks back at the major litigation President Barack Obama’s 2010 healthcare law has faced. 2012: The first challenge After Congress passed the Affordable Care Act and HHS regulations started to take effect, 28 states sued to strike down

Fewer Medicare Advantage plan members actively managed their care in 2020, and they had less communication with their health plans, a new report finds. Data analytics firm J.D. Power wrote in its 2021 U.S. Medicare Advantage Study that the country’s nine largest plans are still struggling when it comes to member communication and engagement. The

President Joe Biden speaks in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, June 2, 2021. Samuel Corum | Bloomberg | Getty Images With less than three weeks to go until Independence Day, President Joe Biden’s latest vaccination goals are in jeopardy. The country is not on pace to hit his two

A US Marine stands guard in front of the US embassy December 21, 2001 in Kabul, Afghanistan. Paula Bronstein | Getty Images WASHINGTON – The U.S. Embassy in Kabul was placed on lockdown on Thursday as Covid cases surge in Afghanistan, pushing the nation’s fragile health care system to its limits. At the embassy, 114

With more than 600,000 Americans dead of COVID-19 and questions still raging about the origin of the virus and the government’s response, a push is underway on Capitol Hill and beyond for a full-blown investigation of the crisis by a national commission like the one that looked into 9/11. It is unclear whether such a

Travelers look at Covid-19 results after being tested inside JFK International airport in New York on December 22, 2020. Kena Betancur | AFP | Getty Images Federal health officials are continuing to push for more Americans to get vaccinated as the delta variant accounts for a bigger share of new cases in the United States.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., conducts a news conference outside the Capitol to reintroduce the Universal Child Care and Early Learning Act, on Tuesday, April 27, 2021. Tom Williams | CQ-Roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren is pressing the CEO of a major pharmaceutical trade group on its lobbying efforts against a

President Joe Biden speaks in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Monday, March 29, 2021. Stefani Reynolds | Bloomberg | Getty Images The U.S. is investing $3.2 billion to advance the development of antiviral pills to treat Covid-19 and other viruses that have pandemic potential, the Biden administration announced Thursday. The

Lucien Wiggins, 12, arrived at Tufts Children’s Hospital by ambulance June 7 with chest pains, dizziness and high levels of a protein in his blood that indicated inflammation of his heart. The symptoms had begun a day earlier, the morning after his second vaccination with the Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA shot. For Dr. Sara Ross, chief of

Visoot Uthairam | Moment | Getty Images The Covid-19 delta variant originally discovered in India is now spreading around the world, becoming the dominant strain in some countries, such as the U.K., and likely to become so in others, like the U.S. On Wednesday, the World Health Organization said the variant had been detected in