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JPMorgan Chase JPM -0.87% & Co. is moving its big annual healthcare conference in San Francisco to a virtual setting, telling participants the spreading Omicron variant of Covid-19 had made the in-person gathering too risky.

Pfizer is spending $6.7 billion to buy a drugmaker that is developing treatments for inflammatory conditions like Crohn’s disease but has no products on the market.

A Canadian drugmaker said its plant-based COVID-19 vaccine showed strong protection against the virus and will soon seek authorization at home and elsewhere.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said his new vaccine mandate for all private businesses is necessary to "avert shutdowns."

Pfizer has prepared the first shipments of its COVID-19 antiviral pill PAXLOVID and sent them to the airport for distribution across Europe and America once it receives approval.

Omicron variant could lead to more infections among vaccinated people but they will most likely remain protected from severe illness, according to the inventor of one of the first COVID-19 vaccines.

Stéphane Bancel, the CEO of Moderna, said in an interview published Tuesday that current vaccines for COVID-19 will likely be much less effective against the new omicron variant.

Some hospitals, nursing homes and other healthcare providers are preparing to operate without up to a third of their staff at the start of next year, if those workers don’t comply with a federal mandate to get vaccinated against Covid-19.

Jurors heard testimony this week from voices that have been scant in Elizabeth Holmes’s criminal-fraud trial so far: patients who took Theranos Inc. tests, as well as Holmes herself.

A New Jersey Starbucks employee tested positive for hepatitis A this week

Moderna filed a request with the Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday for authorization for of its COVID-19 vaccine booster shots for all Americans aged 18 and older.

Nurses are winning raises worth thousands of dollars a year from hospitals, the latest employer reckoning with a tight labor market.

The government on Friday directed nursing homes to open their doors wide to visitors, easing many remaining pandemic restrictions while urging residents, families and facility staff to keep their guard up against outbreaks.

The FDA announced this week that the recall of more than 2.2 million at-home COVID-19 tests by digital diagnostics firm Ellume is being classified as a class 1 recall, which is the most serious type due to the potential for "serious adverse health consequences or death."

George Yancopoulos, the co-founder, president and chief scientific officer of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, claimed that a single administration of his company’s COVID-19 antibody therapy “will protect people” for many months “pretty much as well as a vaccine does.”

The CEO of Pfizer said people who spread misinformation about the coronavirus vaccines are “criminals.”

A California mom is accusing a CVS Pharmacy of giving her 16-year-old son the COVID-19 vaccine without her consent, according to a local report.

Biogen said it is investigating the recent death of a 75-year-old patient who had taken the company’s new Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm.

The number of Boeing employees seeking a vaccine exemption on religious or medical grounds has reached more than 11,000 - or nearly 9% of its U.S. workforce - a level many times higher than executives initially estimated, people familiar with the matter told Reuters.

Prevea Health announced Saturday it is ending its partnership with Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rogers after the football celeb defended his decision to remain unvaccinated.