Blood banks report severe shortages
With winter storms across the country and the recent COVID-19 surge, a “national blood crisis” is stressing the fragile health system devastated by the pandemic and prompting nonprofits leading collection efforts to put out a call for blood donations. Vitalant, the nation’s largest independent nonprofit blood bank, said in a Jan. 10 news release that Read More →
Health care providers deal with yet another COVID wave
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New CEO, new board chair, new funding for ImmPact Bio
Camarillo-based ImmPact Bio made multiple headlines with one announcement on Jan. 20: the a new CEO, a new board chair, and the closing of a $111 million Series B funding round. ImmPact, a biotechnology company developing cancer treatments based on chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapies, named Sumant Ramachandra as its new president and CEO. Read More →
Opinion: Supreme Court vaccine rulings hold more questions than answers for employers
By Ryan Haws On Jan. 13, as COVID-19 cases across the nation surged to seemingly omnipresent levels, a divided United States Supreme Court issued two key orders affecting President Joe Biden’s “Path Out of the Pandemic” action plan. The first order belatedly held that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration exceeded its authority with its Read More →
Opinion: Top 10 pandemic hopes for 2022
By Ritch Eich Pandemic fatigue is a real thing. I’m tired of the pandemic, you’re tired of the pandemic, people the world over are tired of the pandemic. But COVID-19 continues to harass us, and no one knows when the pandemic will end. In the meantime, let’s do what we can to make life better, Read More →
Women continue to bear economic brunt of pandemic, especially in California
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In this COVID wave, businesses must make their own public health decisions
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