New Covid Pills Offer Hope as Omicron Looms
Merck and Pfizer will soon debut prescription pills to treat Covid-19. And more drugs are on the way.
Merck and Pfizer will soon debut prescription pills to treat Covid-19. And more drugs are on the way.
President Biden emphasized how the bill would lower prescription drug costs, an issue his administration hopes will build support for the broader package.
President Biden presented a key provision from his Build Back Better bill that would take steps to combat the high costs of prescription drugs.
Scientists in a cutting-edge laboratory do part of the work. Local health workers on foot do the rest.
Powerful associates of Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad, are making and selling captagon, an illegal amphetamine, creating a new narcostate on the Mediterranean.
Vaccine shortages and skepticism, and rewarding countries for discovering variants. Also: Happiness and politics; unwanted children; beware of psychedelics.
Spain surpassed others in Europe by avoiding politicized debate about Covid shots. Citizens also largely heeded the health guidance from their leaders.
In 2001, U.N. estimates suggested 150 million people would be infected with H.I.V. by 2021. That preceded an ambitious global campaign to curb the virus. How well did it work?
The world must not repeat history by making Covid-19 drugs inaccessible.
Taken together, the provisions in the social policy bill represent the biggest step toward universal coverage since the passage of the Affordable Care Act.