by Aaron Mehta A week before the Federal Communications Commission officially signed off on a plan for Ligado Networks to use L-Band spectrum, Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Oregon, the chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure committee, sent a letter to Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao, warning the plan could harm the Global Positioning System. The April missive was the… Read more »

by Alex Edwards Amazon has chosen North Texas as the first location for its latest venture. This week, the e-commerce giant announced a new healthcare pilot with primary care services provider Crossover Health to establish health centers near Amazon fulfillment centers and operations facilities. The first will be in Las Colinas. Amazon plans to establish 20 health centers in five… Read more »

by Kristina Peterson WASHINGTON—Senior Republicans and Democrats expect the next round of coronavirus aid to include tens of billions of dollars to fund vaccine research and the broad distribution of an eventual vaccine, but they have disagreements over how much Americans should be charged for it. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.), ahead of the start of expected aid… Read more »

by Ripon Advance News Service In an effort to help alleviate the struggles of the U.S. energy industry amid the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. Rep. Michael Burgess (R-TX) on July 13 sponsored the Save American Vital Energy (SAVE) Jobs Act. H.R. 7579, if enacted, would assist the American energy sector in retaining jobs during challenging economic times, such as during a public health… Read more »

by Liz Bonis & Marby Curtis CINCINNATI (WKRC) - The company Moderna along with the National Institutes of Health announced early vaccine testing results. Those results show it does appear to help the body fight off COVID-19. "I think what you are seeing right now is that there's a high likelihood that, at the beginning of the year, which would be less than 12 calendar months… Read more »

by Samantha McGrail Amazon and Crossover Health launched a healthcare pilot to establish local, convenient health centers near Amazon fulfillment centers and boost access to care for employees and their families. The Neighborhood Health Centers will provide many different services, such as full-spectrum acute, chronic, and preventive primary care, in addition to prescription… Read more »

by FWBR Staff The Dallas-Fort Worth area will be the first site of a pilot project for a health care from Amazon for their employees. Collaborating with national provider Crossover Health, Amazon will pilot health centers near its fulfillment centers and operations facilities in Texas, with additional centers planned for other states in months ahead. Available exclusively to Amazon… Read more »

As top White House officials criticized the nation’s leading infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci — including a top aide sharing a mocking cartoon — four former directors of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have penned an op-ed warning that “undermining” science and the “willful disregard for public health guidelines” is “leading to a sharp rise in infections and… Read more »

by Zachary Brennan Some of the pharmaceutical companies developing Covid-19 vaccine candidates have pledged to not take a profit. But neither the companies nor the U.S. government bankrolling a great deal of the vaccine research has defined precisely what forgoing a profit means or how long that will last. And that’s feeding skepticism and uncertainty among industry watchers and… Read more »

by Dr. Marc Siegel  My father, who is 96 years old, felt suddenly fatigued back in March with some shortness of breath and fever. He laid down on his couch and said he didn’t think he was going to get up again. He has heart disease and a pacemaker, and his cardiologist weighed the options and agreed to start him on hydroxychloroquine. He was much better within a day. I made the… Read more »