UNICEF has released a report shedding light on the negative impacts of the pandemic on migrant women in Italy. It said discrimination already linked to gender and migration, combined with the challenges imposed by COVID-19, had increased the likelihood that migrant women in Italy will suffer violence.
May 10, 2021 at 3:57PM
In President Joe Biden s first proposed budget to Congress, he requested authorization for spending increases in a number of areas. One of the most prominent was healthcare. Specifically, the president proposed a new agency within the National Institutes of Health (NIH) with a directive to cure some of the most pressing diseases of our time, including Alzheimer s disease.
The hope is that targeting resources toward a disease that already affects nearly 6 million Americans would accelerate a cure, much like the government backing of
Moderna s vaccine for COVID-19. If the budget is adopted, biotechs like
Denali
Cassava
Eli Lilly (NYSE:LLY) could find themselves with more resources than ever in a market that is estimated to reach $13 billion by 2028.