LONDON — Victims of the U.K.'s infected blood scandal, in which tens of thousands of people were infected by contaminated blood or blood products provided by the public health service, will start receiving their final compensation payments this year, the government said Tuesday. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Monday apologized for the “decades-long moral failure at the heart of our …
Gilead Sciences Inc. is among the top 15 largest biopharmaceutical firms in the world, generating over $27 billion in revenue and paying its CEO over $19 million in 2021 alone. AHF - AIDS HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION, continues pressuring, pharmaceutical giant Gilead Sciences to stop its greedy tactics and put lives before profits, Gilead is one of the worst offenders of big …
This UCLA Health mobile clinic is part of a study that is assessing the effectiveness of a one-stop mobile unit to link people who inject drugs to health services, including treatment for hepatitis C. Fewer people have gotten crucial medication for hepatitis C under Medi-Cal in recent years, troubling advocates who have pushed to expand the lifesaving treatment. The California …
The Narendra Modi government is planning to use CoWIN — the tech backbone of India’s Covid vaccination drive — for booking polio, hepatitis, and other routine vaccines for children under the country’s universal immunisation programme. In an exclusive interview with News18.com, Dr RS Sharma, chief executive officer of the National Health Authority, said that the work to repurpose CoWIN has …
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