A federal judge in Louisiana on Tuesday restricted the Biden administration from communicating with social media platforms about broad swaths of content online, a ruling that could curtail efforts to […]
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Back to news homeGilead Wins Key Patent Rights Suit Over PrEP Drugs for Preventing HIV
A federal jury in Delaware on Tuesday found that the federal government did not have an ownership claim to lucrative drugs to prevent H.I.V. that are sold by the pharmaceutical […]
Phony Diagnoses Hide High Rates of Drugging at Nursing Homes
The handwritten doctor’s order was just eight words long, but it solved a problem for Dundee Manor, a nursing home in rural South Carolina struggling to handle a new resident […]
Biden Administration Moves to Unkink Supply Chain Bottlenecks
Most of the world’s lithium, a key ingredient in the batteries that power electric vehicles, is mined in Australia, China, Chile and Argentina. China dominates global production of rare earth […]
How U.S. Ratings of Nursing Homes Mislead the Public
The pandemic laid bare the flaws in the government rating system.The state health inspections do little to penalize homes with poor records of preventing and controlling infections. From 2017 to […]
Frustrations Boil at Pace of Vaccinations at Long-Term Care Facilities
In mid-December, a top Trump administration official floated an enticing possibility: All nursing home residents in the United States could be vaccinated against the coronavirus by Christmas. “It’s really a […]