Background: Parents of children with rare diseases often face uncertainty about diagnosis, treatment, and costs associated with healthcare for their child. Health insurance status impacts each of these areas, but no U.S. study has explored parents’ perceptions of the...
The Alpha-1 Foundation has created a detailed guideline of criteria that will be used to determine Foundation event activities in 2022. The Alpha-1 Foundation COVID Grid takes into consideration multiple factors such as positive cases in a given locality,...
“On behalf of Alpha-1 patients and families, we applaud Grifols for this incredible milestone of 1 million screenings through their free testing program. Your commitment to the community is outstanding and raising awareness for Alpha-1 , as well as, providing better...
Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) for Pfizer’s Paxlovid (nirmatrelvir tablets and ritonavir tablets, co-packaged for oral use) for the treatment of mild-to-moderate coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in adults and...
Emergence of Omicron CDC has been collaborating with global public health and industry partners to learn about Omicron, as we continue to monitor its course. CDC has been using genomic surveillance throughout the course of the pandemic to track variants of SARS-CoV-2,...
