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Parent/Caretaker Relatives with viagra 100mg online MAGI-like Budgeting - Including Medicare Beneficiaries. Consumers who fall into the DAB category (Age 65+/Disabled/Blind) and would otherwise be budgeted with non-MAGI rules can opt to use Affordable Care Act MAGI rules if they are the parent/caretaker of a child under age 18 or under age 19 and in school full time. This is referred to as Ã¢ÂÂMAGI-like budgeting.Ã¢ÂÂ Under MAGI rules income can be up to 138% of the FPLÃ¢ÂÂagain, higher than the limit for DAB budgeting, which is equivalent to only 83% FPL. MAGI-like consumers can be enrolled viagra 100mg online in either MSP or MIPP, depending on if their income is higher or lower than 120% of the FPL.

If their income is under 120% FPL, they are eligible for MSP as a SLIMB. If income is above 120% FPL, then they can enroll in MIPP. (See GIS 18 MA/001 - 2018 Medicaid Managed Care Transition for Enrollees Gaining Medicare, #4) viagra 100mg online 3. New Medicare Enrollees who are Not Yet in a Medicare Savings Program When a consumer has Medicaid through the New York State of Health (NYSoH) Marketplace and then enrolls in Medicare when she turns age 65 or because she received Social Security Disability for 24 months, her Medicaid case is normally** transferred to the local department of social services (LDSS)(HRA in NYC) to be rebudgeted under non-MAGI budgeting.

During the transition process, she should be reimbursed for the Part B premiums via MIPP. However, the transition time can viagra 100mg online vary based on age. AGE 65+ For those who enroll in Medicare at age 65+, the Medicaid case takes about four months to be rebudgeted and approved by the LDSS. The consumer is entitled to MIPP payments for at least three months during the transition.

Once the case is with the LDSS viagra 100mg online she should automatically be re-evaluated for MSP. Consumers UNDER 65 who receive Medicare due to disability status are entitled to keep MAGI Medicaid through NYSoH for up to 12 months (also known as continuous coverage, See NY Social Services Law 366, subd. 4(c). These consumers should receive MIPP payments viagra 100mg online for as long as their cases remain with NYSoH and throughout the transition to the LDSS.

NOTE during erectile dysfunction treatment emergency their case may remain with NYSoH for more than 12 months. See here. See GIS 18 MA/001 - 2018 Medicaid Managed Care Transition for Enrollees Gaining Medicare, #4 for an explanation viagra 100mg online of this process. Note.

During the erectile dysfunction treatment emergency, those who have Medicaid through the NYSOH marketplace and enroll in Medicare should NOT have their cases transitioned to the LDSS. They should keep the same MAGI budgeting and automatically receive MIPP viagra 100mg online payments. See GIS 20 MA/04 or this article on erectile dysfunction treatment eligibility changes 4. Those with Special Budgeting after Losing SSI (DAC, Pickle, 1619b) Disabled Adult Child (DAC).

Special budgeting is available to those who are 18+ and lose SSI because they begin receiving viagra 100mg online Disabled Adult Child (DAC) benefits (or receive an increase in the amount of their benefit). Consumer must have become disabled or blind before age 22 to receive the benefit. If the new DAC benefit amount was disregarded and the consumer would otherwise be eligible for SSI, they can keep Medicaid eligibility with NO SPEND DOWN. See this viagra 100mg online article.

Consumers may have income higher than MSP limits, but keep full Medicaid with no spend down. Therefore, they are eligible for payment of their Part B premiums. See page 96 of the Medicaid Reference Guide (Categorical viagra 100mg online Factors). If their income is lower than the MSP SLIMB threshold, they can be added to MSP.

If higher than the threshold, they can be reimbursed via MIPP. See also viagra 100mg online 95-ADM-11. Medical Assistance Eligibility for Disabled Adult Children, Section C (pg 8). Pickle &.

1619B. 5. When the Part B Premium Reduces Countable Income to Below the Medicaid Limit Since the Part B premium can be used as a deduction from gross income, it may reduce someone's countable income to below the Medicaid limit. The consumer should be paid the difference to bring her up to the Medicaid level ($904/month in 2021).

They will only be reimbursed for the difference between their countable income and $904, not necessarily the full amount of the premium. See GIS 02-MA-019. Reimbursement of Health Insurance Premiums MIPP and MSP are similar in that they both pay for the Medicare Part B premium, but there are some key differences. MIPP structures the payments as reimbursement -- beneficiaries must continue to pay their premium (via a monthly deduction from their Social Security check or quarterly billing, if they do not receive Social Security) and then are reimbursed via check.

In contrast, MSP enrollees are not charged for their premium. Their Social Security check usually increases because the Part B premium is no longer withheld from their check. MIPP only provides reimbursement for Part B. It does not have any of the other benefits MSPs can provide, such as.

A consumer cannot have MIPP without also having Medicaid, whereas MSP enrollees can have MSP only. Of the above benefits, Medicaid also provides Part D Extra Help automatic eligibility. There is no application process for MIPP because consumers should be screened and enrolled automatically (00 OMM/ADM-7). Either the state or the LDSS is responsible for screening &.

Distributing MIPP payments, depending on where the Medicaid case is held and administered (14 /2014 LCM-02 Section V). If a consumer is eligible for MIPP and is not receiving it, they should contact whichever agency holds their case and request enrollment. Unfortunately, since there is no formal process for applying, it may require some advocacy. If Medicaid case is at New York State of Health they should call 1-855-355-5777.

Consumers will likely have to ask for a supervisor in order to find someone familiar with MIPP. If Medicaid case is with HRA in New York City, they should email mipp@hra.nyc.gov. If Medicaid case is with other local districts in NYS, call your local county DSS. Once enrolled, it make take a few months for payments to begin.

Payments will be made in the form of checks from the Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), the fiscal agent for the New York State Medicaid program. The check itself comes attached to a remittance notice from Medicaid Management Information Systems (MMIS). Unfortunately, the notice is not consumer-friendly and may be confusing. See attached sample for what to look for.

Health Insurance Premium Payment Program (HIPP) HIPP is a sister program to MIPP and will reimburse consumers for private third party health insurance when deemed Ã¢ÂÂcost effective.Ã¢ÂÂ Directives:Medicare Savings Programs (MSPs) pay for the monthly Medicare Part B premium for low-income Medicare beneficiaries and qualify enrollees for the "Extra Help" subsidy for Part D prescription drugs. There are three separate MSP programs, the Qualified Medicare Beneficiary (QMB) Program, the Specified Low Income Medicare Beneficiary (SLMB) Program and the Qualified Individual (QI) Program, each of which is discussed below. Those in QMB receive additional subsidies for Medicare costs. See 2021 Fact Sheet on MSP in NYS by Medicare Rights Center ENGLISH SPANISH State law.

ÃÂ§ 367-a(3)(a), (b), and (d). 2020 Medicare 101 Basics for New York State - 1.5 hour webinar by Eric Hausman, sponsored by NYS Office of the Aging Note. Some consumers may be eligible for the Medicare Insurance Premium Payment (MIPP) Program, instead of MSP. See this article for more info.

TOPICS COVERED IN THIS ARTICLE 1. No Asset Limit 1A. Summary Chart of MSP Programs 2. Income Limits &.

Rules and Household Size 3. The Three MSP Programs - What are they and how are they Different?. 4. FOUR Special Benefits of MSP Programs.

Back Door to Extra Help with Part D MSPs Automatically Waive Late Enrollment Penalties for Part B - and allow enrollment in Part B year-round outside of the short Annual Enrollment Period No Medicaid Lien on Estate to Recover Payment of Expenses Paid by MSP Food Stamps/SNAP not reduced by Decreased Medical Expenses when Enroll in MSP - at least temporarily 5. Enrolling in an MSP - Automatic Enrollment &. Applications for People who Have Medicare What is Application Process?. 6.

Enrolling in an MSP for People age 65+ who Do Not Qualify for Free Medicare Part A - the "Part A Buy-In Program" 7. What Happens After MSP Approved - How Part B Premium is Paid 8 Special Rules for QMBs - How Medicare Cost-Sharing Works 1. NO ASSET LIMIT!. Since April 1, 2008, none of the three MSP programs have resource limits in New York -- which means many Medicare beneficiaries who might not qualify for Medicaid because of excess resources can qualify for an MSP.

1.A. SUMMARY CHART OF MSP BENEFITS QMB SLIMB QI-1 Eligibility ASSET LIMIT NO LIMIT IN NEW YORK STATE INCOME LIMIT (2021) Single Couple Single Couple Single Couple $1,094 $1,472 $1,308 $1,762 $1,469 $1,980 Federal Poverty Level 100% FPL 100 Ã¢ÂÂ 120% FPL 120 Ã¢ÂÂ 135% FPL Benefits Pays Monthly Part B premium?. YES, and also Part A premium if did not have enough work quarters and meets citizenship requirement. See Ã¢ÂÂPart A Buy-InÃ¢ÂÂ YES YES Pays Part A &.

B deductibles &. Co-insurance YES - with limitations NO NO Retroactive to Filing of Application?. Yes - Benefits begin the month after the month of the MSP application. 18 NYCRR ÃÂ§360-7.8(b)(5) Yes Ã¢ÂÂ Retroactive to 3rd month before month of application, if eligible in prior months Yes Ã¢ÂÂ may be retroactive to 3rd month before month of applica-tion, but only within the current calendar year.

(No retro for January application). See GIS 07 MA 027. Can Enroll in MSP and Medicaid at Same Time?. YES YES NO!.

Must choose between QI-1 and Medicaid. Cannot have both, not even Medicaid with a spend-down. 2. INCOME LIMITS and RULES Each of the three MSP programs has different income eligibility requirements and provides different benefits.

The income limits are tied to the Federal Poverty Level (FPL). 2021 FPL levels were released by NYS DOH in GIS 21 MA/06 - 2021 Federal Poverty Levels Attachment II NOTE. There is usually a lag in time of several weeks, or even months, from January 1st of each year until the new FPLs are release, and then before the new MSP income limits are officially implemented. During this lag period, local Medicaid offices should continue to use the previous year's FPLs AND count the person's Social Security benefit amount from the previous year - do NOT factor in the Social Security COLA (cost of living adjustment).

Once the updated guidelines are released, districts will use the new FPLs and go ahead and factor in any COLA. See 2021 Fact Sheet on MSP in NYS by Medicare Rights Center ENGLISH SPANISH Income is determined by the same methodology as is used for determining in eligibility for SSI The rules for counting income for SSI-related (Aged 65+, Blind, or Disabled) Medicaid recipients, borrowed from the SSI program, apply to the MSP program, except for the new rules about counting household size for married couples. N.Y. Soc.

Serv. L. 367-a(3)(c)(2), NYS DOH 2000-ADM-7, 89-ADM-7 p.7. Gross income is counted, although there are certain types of income that are disregarded.

The most common income disregards, also known as deductions, include. (a) The first $20 of your &. Your spouse's monthly income, earned or unearned ($20 per couple max). (b) SSI EARNED INCOME DISREGARDS.

* The first $65 of monthly wages of you and your spouse, * One-half of the remaining monthly wages (after the $65 is deducted). * Other work incentives including PASS plans, impairment related work expenses (IRWEs), blind work expenses, etc. For information on these deductions, see The Medicaid Buy-In for Working People with Disabilities (MBI-WPD) and other guides in this article -- though written for the MBI-WPD, the work incentives apply to all Medicaid programs, including MSP, for people age 65+, disabled or blind. (c) monthly cost of any health insurance premiums but NOT the Part B premium, since Medicaid will now pay this premium (may deduct Medigap supplemental policies, vision, dental, or long term care insurance premiums, and the Part D premium but only to the extent the premium exceeds the Extra Help benchmark amount) (d) Food stamps not counted.

You can get a more comprehensive listing of the SSI-related income disregards on the Medicaid income disregards chart. As for all benefit programs based on financial need, it is usually advantageous to be considered a larger household, because the income limit is higher. The above chart shows that Households of TWO have a higher income limit than households of ONE. The MSP programs use the same rules as Medicaid does for the Disabled, Aged and Blind (DAB) which are borrowed from the SSI program for Medicaid recipients in the Ã¢ÂÂSSI-related category.Ã¢ÂÂ Under these rules, a household can be only ONE or TWO.

18 NYCRR 360-4.2. See DAB Household Size Chart. Married persons can sometimes be ONE or TWO depending on arcane rules, which can force a Medicare beneficiary to be limited to the income limit for ONE person even though his spouse who is under 65 and not disabled has no income, and is supported by the client applying for an MSP. EXAMPLE.

Bob's Social Security is $1300/month. He is age 67 and has Medicare. His wife, Nancy, is age 62 and is not disabled and does not work. Under the old rule, Bob was not eligible for an MSP because his income was above the Income limit for One, even though it was well under the Couple limit.

In 2010, NYS DOH modified its rules so that all married individuals will be considered a household size of TWO. DOH GIS 10 MA 10 Medicare Savings Program Household Size, June 4, 2010. This rule for household size is an exception to the rule applying SSI budgeting rules to the MSP program. Under these rules, Bob is now eligible for an MSP.

When is One Better than Two?. Of course, there may be couples where the non-applying spouse's income is too high, and disqualifies the applying spouse from an MSP. In such cases, "spousal refusal" may be used SSL 366.3(a). (Link is to NYC HRA form, can be adapted for other counties).

In NYC, if you have a Medicaid case with HRA, instead of submitting an MSP application, you only need to complete and submit MAP-751W (check off "Medicare Savings Program Evaluation") and fax to (917) 639-0837. (The MAP-751W is also posted in languages other than English in this link. (Updated 4/14/2021.)) 3. The Three Medicare Savings Programs - what are they and how are they different?.

1. Qualified Medicare Beneficiary (QMB). The QMB program provides the most comprehensive benefits. Available to those with incomes at or below 100% of the Federal Poverty Level (FPL), the QMB program covers virtually all Medicare cost-sharing obligations.

Part B premiums, Part A premiums, if there are any, and any and all deductibles and co-insurance. QMB coverage is not retroactive. The programÃ¢ÂÂs benefits will begin the month after the month in which your client is found eligible. ** See special rules about cost-sharing for QMBs below - updated with new CMS directive issued January 2012 ** See NYC HRA QMB Recertification form ** Even if you do not have Part A automatically, because you did not have enough wages, you may be able to enroll in the Part A Buy-In Program, in which people eligible for QMB who do not otherwise have Medicare Part A may enroll, with Medicaid paying the Part A premium (Materials by the Medicare Rights Center).

2. Specifiedl Low-Income Medicare Beneficiary (SLMB). For those with incomes between 100% and 120% FPL, the SLMB program will cover Part B premiums only. SLMB is retroactive, however, providing coverage for three months prior to the month of application, as long as your client was eligible during those months.

3. Qualified Individual (QI-1). For those with incomes between 120% and 135% FPL, and not receiving Medicaid, the QI-1 program will cover Medicare Part B premiums only. QI-1 is also retroactive, providing coverage for three months prior to the month of application, as long as your client was eligible during those months.

However, QI-1 retroactive coverage can only be provided within the current calendar year. (GIS 07 MA 027) So if you apply in January, you get no retroactive coverage. Q-I-1 recipients would be eligible for Medicaid with a spend-down, but if they want the Part B premium paid, they must choose between enrolling in QI-1 or Medicaid. They cannot be in both.

It is their choice. DOH MRG p. 19. In contrast, one may receive Medicaid and either QMB or SLIMB.

4. Four Special Benefits of MSPs (in addition to NO ASSET TEST). Benefit 1. Back Door to Medicare Part D "Extra Help" or Low Income Subsidy -- All MSP recipients are automatically enrolled in Extra Help, the subsidy that makes Part D affordable.

They have no Part D deductible or doughnut hole, the premium is subsidized, and they pay very low copayments. Once they are enrolled in Extra Help by virtue of enrollment in an MSP, they retain Extra Help for the entire calendar year, even if they lose MSP eligibility during that year. The "Full" Extra Help subsidy has the same income limit as QI-1 - 135% FPL. However, many people may be eligible for QI-1 but not Extra Help because QI-1 and the other MSPs have no asset limit.

People applying to the Social Security Administration for Extra Help might be rejected for this reason. Recent (2009-10) changes to federal law called "MIPPA" requires the Social Security Administration (SSA) to share eligibility data with NYSDOH on all persons who apply for Extra Help/ the Low Income Subsidy. Data sent to NYSDOH from SSA will enable NYSDOH to open MSP cases on many clients. The effective date of the MSP application must be the same date as the Extra Help application.

Signatures will not be required from clients. In cases where the SSA data is incomplete, NYSDOH will forward what is collected to the local district for completion of an MSP application. The State implementing procedures are in DOH 2010 ADM-03. Also see CMS "Dear State Medicaid Director" letter dated Feb.

18, 2010 Benefit 2. MSPs Automatically Waive Late Enrollment Penalties for Part B Generally one must enroll in Part B within the strict enrollment periods after turning age 65 or after 24 months of Social Security Disability. An exception is if you or your spouse are still working and insured under an employer sponsored group health plan, or if you have End Stage Renal Disease, and other factors, see this from Medicare Rights Center. If you fail to enroll within those short periods, you might have to pay higher Part B premiums for life as a Late Enrollment Penalty (LEP).

Also, you may only enroll in Part B during the Annual Enrollment Period from January 1 - March 31st each year, with Part B not effective until the following July. Enrollment in an MSP automatically eliminates such penalties... For life.. Even if one later ceases to be eligible for the MSP.

AND enrolling in an MSP will automatically result in becoming enrolled in Part B if you didn't already have it and only had Part A. See Medicare Rights Center flyer. Benefit 3. No Medicaid Lien on Estate to Recover MSP Benefits Paid Generally speaking, states may place liens on the Estates of deceased Medicaid recipients to recover the cost of Medicaid services that were provided after the recipient reached the age of 55.

Since 2002, states have not been allowed to recover the cost of Medicare premiums paid under MSPs. In 2010, Congress expanded protection for MSP benefits. Beginning on January 1, 2010, states may not place liens on the Estates of Medicaid recipients who died after January 1, 2010 to recover costs for co-insurance paid under the QMB MSP program for services rendered after January 1, 2010. The federal government made this change in order to eliminate barriers to enrollment in MSPs.

See NYS DOH GIS 10-MA-008 - Medicare Savings Program Changes in Estate Recovery The GIS clarifies that a client who receives both QMB and full Medicaid is exempt from estate recovery for these Medicare cost-sharing expenses. Benefit 4. SNAP (Food Stamp) benefits not reduced despite increased income from MSP - at least temporarily Many people receive both SNAP (Food Stamp) benefits and MSP. Income for purposes of SNAP/Food Stamps is reduced by a deduction for medical expenses, which includes payment of the Part B premium.

Since approval for an MSP means that the client no longer pays for the Part B premium, his/her SNAP/Food Stamps income goes up, so their SNAP/Food Stamps go down. Here are some protections. Do these individuals have to report to their SNAP worker that their out of pocket medical costs have decreased?. And will the household see a reduction in their SNAP benefits, since the decrease in medical expenses will increase their countable income?.

The good news is that MSP households do NOT have to report the decrease in their medical expenses to the SNAP/Food Stamp office until their next SNAP/Food Stamp recertification. Even if they do report the change, or the local district finds out because the same worker is handling both the MSP and SNAP case, there should be no reduction in the householdÃ¢ÂÂs benefit until the next recertification. New YorkÃ¢ÂÂs SNAP policy per administrative directive 02 ADM-07 is to Ã¢ÂÂfreezeÃ¢ÂÂ the deduction for medical expenses between certification periods. Increases in medical expenses can be budgeted at the householdÃ¢ÂÂs request, but NYS never decreases a householdÃ¢ÂÂs medical expense deduction until the next recertification.

Most elderly and disabled households have 24-month SNAP certification periods. Eventually, though, the decrease in medical expenses will need to be reported when the household recertifies for SNAP, and the household should expect to see a decrease in their monthly SNAP benefit. It is really important to stress that the loss in SNAP benefits is NOT dollar for dollar. A $100 decrease in out of pocket medical expenses would translate roughly into a $30 drop in SNAP benefits.

See more info on SNAP/Food Stamp benefits by the Empire Justice Center, and on the State OTDA website. Some clients will be automatically enrolled in an MSP by the New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) shortly after attaining eligibility for Medicare. Others need to apply. The 2010 "MIPPA" law introduced some improvements to increase MSP enrollment.

See 3rd bullet below. Also, some people who had Medicaid through the Affordable Care Act before they became eligible for Medicare have special procedures to have their Part B premium paid before they enroll in an MSP. See below. WHO IS AUTOMATICALLY ENROLLED IN AN MSP.

Clients receiving even $1.00 of Supplemental Security Income should be automatically enrolled into a Medicare Savings Program (most often QMB) under New York StateÃ¢ÂÂs Medicare Savings Program Buy-in Agreement with the federal government once they become eligible for Medicare. They should receive Medicare Parts A and B. Clients who are already eligible for Medicare when they apply for Medicaid should be automatically assessed for MSP eligibility when they apply for Medicaid. (NYS DOH 2000-ADM-7 and GIS 05 MA 033).

Clients who apply to the Social Security Administration for Extra Help, but are rejected, should be contacted &. Enrolled into an MSP by the Medicaid program directly under new MIPPA procedures that require data sharing. Strategy TIP. Since the Extra Help filing date will be assigned to the MSP application, it may help the client to apply online for Extra Help with the SSA, even knowing that this application will be rejected because of excess assets or other reason.

SSA processes these requests quickly, and it will be routed to the State for MSP processing. Since MSP applications take a while, at least the filing date will be retroactive. Note. The above strategy does not work as well for QMB, because the effective date of QMB is the month after the month of application.

As a result, the retroactive effective date of Extra Help will be the month after the failed Extra Help application for those with QMB rather than SLMB/QI-1. Applying for MSP Directly with Local Medicaid Program. Those who do not have Medicaid already must apply for an MSP through their local social services district. (See more in Section D.

Below re those who already have Medicaid through the Affordable Care Act before they became eligible for Medicare. If you are applying for MSP only (not also Medicaid), you can use the simplified MSP application form (theDOH-4328(Rev. 8/2017-- English) (2017 Spanish version not yet available). Either application form can be mailed in -- there is no interview requirement anymore for MSP or Medicaid.

See 10 ADM-04. Applicants will need to submit proof of income, a copy of their Medicare card (front &. Back), and proof of residency/address. See the application form for other instructions.

One who is only eligible for QI-1 because of higher income may ONLY apply for an MSP, not for Medicaid too. One may not receive Medicaid and QI-1 at the same time. If someone only eligible for QI-1 wants Medicaid, s/he may enroll in and deposit excess income into a pooled Supplemental Needs Trust, to bring her countable income down to the Medicaid level, which also qualifies him or her for SLIMB or QMB instead of QI-1. Advocates in NYC can sign up for a half-day "Deputization Training" conducted by the Medicare Rights Center, at which you'll be trained and authorized to complete an MSP application and to submit it via the Medicare Rights Center, which submits it to HRA without the client having to apply in person.

Enrolling in an MSP if you already have Medicaid, but just become eligible for Medicare Those who, prior to becoming enrolled in Medicare, had Medicaid through Affordable Care Act are eligible to have their Part B premiums paid by Medicaid (or the cost reimbursed) during the time it takes for them to transition to a Medicare Savings Program. In 2018, DOH clarified that reimbursement of the Part B premium will be made regardless of whether the individual is still in a Medicaid managed care (MMC) plan. GIS 18 MA/001 Medicaid Managed Care Transition for Enrollees Gaining Medicare ( PDF) provides, "Due to efforts to transition individuals who gain Medicare eligibility and who require LTSS, individuals may not be disenrolled from MMC upon receipt of Medicare. To facilitate the transition and not disadvantage the recipient, the Medicaid program is approving reimbursement of Part B premiums for enrollees in MMC." The procedure for getting the Part B premium paid is different for those whose Medicaid was administered by the NYS of Health Exchange (Marketplace), as opposed to their local social services district.

The procedure is also different for those who obtain Medicare because they turn 65, as opposed to obtaining Medicare based on disability. Either way, Medicaid recipients who transition onto Medicare should be automatically evaluated for MSP eligibility at their next Medicaid recertification. NYS DOH 2000-ADM-7 Individuals can also affirmatively ask to be enrolled in MSP in between recertification periods. IF CLIENT HAD MEDICAID ON THE MARKETPLACE (NYS of Health Exchange) before obtaining Medicare.

IF they obtain Medicare because they turn age 65, they will receive a letter from their local district asking them to "renew" Medicaid through their local district. See 2014 LCM-02. Now, their Medicaid income limit will be lower than the MAGI limits ($842/ mo reduced from $1387/month) and they now will have an asset test. For this reason, some individuals may lose full Medicaid eligibility when they begin receiving Medicare.

People over age 65 who obtain Medicare do NOT keep "Marketplace Medicaid" for 12 months (continuous eligibility) See GIS 15 MA/022 - Continuous Coverage for MAGI Individuals. Since MSP has NO ASSET limit. Some individuals may be enrolled in the MSP even if they lose Medicaid, or if they now have a Medicaid spend-down. If a Medicare/Medicaid recipient reports income that exceeds the Medicaid level, districts must evaluate the personÃ¢ÂÂs eligibility for MSP.

08 OHIP/ADM-4 Ã¢ÂÂIf you became eligible for Medicare based on disability and you are UNDER AGE 65, you are entitled to keep MAGI Medicaid for 12 months from the month it was last authorized, even if you now have income normally above the MAGI limit, and even though you now have Medicare. This is called Continuous Eligibility. EXAMPLE. Sam, age 60, was last authorized for Medicaid on the Marketplace in June 2016.

He became enrolled in Medicare based on disability in August 2016, and started receiving Social Security in the same month (he won a hearing approving Social Security disability benefits retroactively, after first being denied disability). Even though his Social Security is too high, he can keep Medicaid for 12 months beginning June 2016. Sam has to pay for his Part B premium - it is deducted from his Social Security check. He may call the Marketplace and request a refund.

This will continue until the end of his 12 months of continues MAGI Medicaid eligibility. He will be reimbursed regardless of whether he is in a Medicaid managed care plan. See GIS 18 MA/001 Medicaid Managed Care Transition for Enrollees Gaining Medicare (PDF) When that ends, he will renew Medicaid and apply for MSP with his local district. Individuals who are eligible for Medicaid with a spenddown can opt whether or not to receive MSP.

(Medicaid Reference Guide (MRG) p. 19). Obtaining MSP may increase their spenddown. MIPPA - Outreach by Social Security Administration -- Under MIPPA, the SSA sends a form letter to people who may be eligible for a Medicare Savings Program or Extra Help (Low Income Subsidy - LIS) that they may apply.

The letters are. ÃÂ· Beneficiary has Extra Help (LIS), but not MSP ÃÂ· Beneficiary has no Extra Help (LIS) or MSP 6. Enrolling in MSP for People Age 65+ who do Not have Free Medicare Part A - the "Part A Buy-In Program" Seniors WITHOUT MEDICARE PART A or B -- They may be able to enroll in the Part A Buy-In program, in which people eligible for QMB who are age 65+ who do not otherwise have Medicare Part A may enroll in Part A, with Medicaid paying the Part A premium. See Step-by-Step Guide by the Medicare Rights Center).

This guide explains the various steps in "conditionally enrolling" in Part A at the SSA office, which must be done before applying for QMB at the Medicaid office, which will then pay the Part A premium. See also GIS 04 MA/013. In June, 2018, the SSA revised the POMS manual procedures for the Part A Buy-In to to address inconsistencies and confusion in SSA field offices and help smooth the path for QMB enrollment. The procedures are in the POMS Section HI 00801.140 "Premium-Free Part A Enrollments for Qualified Medicare BenefiIaries." It includes important clarifications, such as.

SSA Field Offices should explain the QMB program and conditional enrollment process if an individual lacks premium-free Part A and appears to meet QMB requirements. SSA field offices can add notes to the Ã¢ÂÂRemarksÃ¢ÂÂ section of the application and provide a screen shot to the individual so the individual can provide proof of conditional Part A enrollment when applying for QMB through the state Medicaid program. Beneficiaries are allowed to complete the conditional application even if they owe Medicare premiums. In Part A Buy-in states like NYS, SSA should process conditional applications on a rolling basis (without regard to enrollment periods), even if the application coincides with the General Enrollment Period.

(The General Enrollment Period is from Jan 1 to March 31st every year, in which anyone eligible may enroll in Medicare Part A or Part B to be effective on July 1st). 7. What happens after the MSP approval - How is Part B premium paid For all three MSP programs, the Medicaid program is now responsible for paying the Part B premiums, even though the MSP enrollee is not necessarily a recipient of Medicaid. The local Medicaid office (DSS/HRA) transmits the MSP approval to the NYS Department of Health Ã¢ÂÂ that information gets shared w/ SSA and CMS SSA stops deducting the Part B premiums out of the beneficiaryÃ¢ÂÂs Social Security check.

SSA also refunds any amounts owed to the recipient. (Note. This process can take awhile!. !.

!. ) CMS Ã¢ÂÂdeemsÃ¢ÂÂ the MSP recipient eligible for Part D Extra Help/ Low Income Subsidy (LIS). Ã¢ÂÂCan the MSP be retroactive like Medicaid, back to 3 months before the application?. Ã¢ÂÂThe answer is different for the 3 MSP programs.

QMB -No Retroactive Eligibility Ã¢ÂÂ Benefits begin the month after the month of the MSP application. 18 NYCRR ÃÂ§ 360-7.8(b)(5) SLIMB - YES - Retroactive Eligibility up to 3 months before the application, if was eligible This means applicant may be reimbursed for the 3 months of Part B benefits prior to the month of application. QI-1 - YES up to 3 months but only in the same calendar year. No retroactive eligibility to the previous year.

7. QMBs -Special Rules on Cost-Sharing. QMB is the only MSP program which pays not only the Part B premium, but also the Medicare co-insurance.

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Cracked down on drugs in the 1970s, the effort dried up most funding and research into psychedelic substances Ã¢ÂÂ which only in the past few years have regained momentum in the field of psychotherapy. In the Ã¢ÂÂ70s, rather than shut down all his work, one psychedelic researcher at Johns Hopkins University, Stan Grof, turned his attention to another potential avenue for attaining non-ordinary states of consciousness. Breathing.Grof, alongside his wife at the time, Christina Grof, developed the term Holotropic Breathwork for this technique, which loosely translates as Ã¢ÂÂmoving toward wholeness.Ã¢ÂÂ The practice in experiential psychotherapy emerged in the 1980s as a tool for self-exploration and inner healing, and has certified teaches who now facilitate it around the world. The framework integrates music with modern consciousness research, psychology and Eastern spiritual practices, according to the Grof Transpersonal Training program.Many people today teach this intense breathing practice, and other similar techniques that preceded it, such as kundalini yoga or pranayama.

But questions remain about the science behind what exactly is happening in the mind and body while practitioners lie on the floor and breathe persistently in rapid patterns. And some clinicians have raised concerns about the safety, and risks, in a field with limited peer-reviewed studies.Meditation on a Freight TrainStacia Butterfield has been a certified Holotropic Breathwork teacher with Grof Transpersonal Training for roughly 15 years. She committed to the work after having her own life-changing experience at a workshop, and has since worked closely with Grof himself and guided thousands of people in the practice. ÃÂÂItÃ¢ÂÂs deceptively simple.

It seems like just turning on music, laying down and taking some breaths, and away you go,Ã¢ÂÂ Butterfield says. ÃÂÂWhat weÃ¢ÂÂre actually relying on is the spontaneous mobilization of the psyche.Ã¢ÂÂFirst and foremost, a guided Holotropic Breathwork session requires creating a safe container, Butterfield says, where people can let go of inhibitions or mental blocks. Facilitators are trained to guide people through that process in a group setting.One session lasts between two and three hours Ã¢ÂÂ often as part of a weekend or week-long retreat. People pair off and alternate in the roles of Ã¢ÂÂsitterÃ¢ÂÂ (assisting the other) and Ã¢ÂÂbreatherÃ¢ÂÂ (the person doing the heavy breathing).

To begin, rhythmic drumming sets the mood. The breather lays down and starts breathing rapidly, in a continuous way with no real break between inhales and exhales.The music typically has an emotional arc, almost like a movie soundtrack. It might start off evocative and stimulating, then turn Ã¢ÂÂincreasingly dramatic and dynamic, and finally it reaches a breakthrough quality,Ã¢ÂÂ according to a guide written by Stan and Christina Grof. This guide notes that when the breathing leads to non-ordinary states of consciousness in a practitioner, Ã¢ÂÂthere is a potential for unusually intense projections, including regressed longings for nurturing, sexual contact, or spiritual connection.Ã¢ÂÂ Facilitators are advised to assist clients with these feelings as they arise, while following their agreement to conduct the practice in an ethical manner.Butterfield says one core principle, like somatic therapy, is for participants to become aware of the messages and wisdom in their own body.

ÃÂÂSo many people are so busy, just cruising around [and] keeping the lid on everything else that is going on internally,Ã¢ÂÂ she says. ÃÂÂ[In a session] they can just close their eyes and go inward, and see whatÃ¢ÂÂs there.Ã¢ÂÂ She says visions, strong bodily sensations and emotions often arise. And she has watched people who had tried years of talk therapy make substantial progress in processing grief and loss, past trauma, life changes or even mental illnesses.One practitioner aptly described this practice as Ã¢ÂÂmeditation on a freight train,Ã¢ÂÂ Butterfield adds. The reported dramatic experiences spark questions about what might actually be happening within the body and brain.Mysticism or Hyperventilation?.

Pulmonologist Michael Stephen, author of the book Breath Taking, says the practice of Holotropic Breathwork raises red flags for him because of its use of over-breathing, or hyperventilation. Biologically, when someone breathes heavily for an extended period, they can lose too much carbon dioxide, which makes the blood overly alkaline. The phenomenon often triggers an immediately physiological response. ÃÂÂWe start to get tingly in our fingers and dizzy when we hyperventilate, as our pH is rising too much,Ã¢ÂÂ says Stephen.Prolonged, excessive pH levels in the blood can also cause seizures, he adds.

ÃÂÂJust before seizures happen, you can get lightheaded, a sort of high.Ã¢ÂÂ He attributes this to the non-ordinary states of consciousness that people might feel during Holotropic Breathwork. But he says few proper studies have been done on the practice because of the dangers and ethics involved.Casualties of Heavy BreathingAnother breath specialist and integrative psychiatrist, Patricia Gerbarg, says that Holotropic Breathwork, and other forceful respiratory practices such as breath of fire, do have the potential to alter the mind. They can also bring about a lasting impact on people, but itÃ¢ÂÂs not always beneficial or predictable.Ã¢ÂÂItÃ¢ÂÂs a stress on the system. YouÃ¢ÂÂre going through rapid changes in oxygen levels and the balance of various substances in the body and the brain,Ã¢ÂÂ she says.

And similar to drugs, Ã¢ÂÂpeople can use them to attain different mental states,Ã¢ÂÂ she adds.Read More. Can Breathing Like Wim Hof Make Us Super Human?. Healthy people tend to have a broader tolerance to endure these shifts and unpredictable outcomes. But the same behavior can be harmful to someone who is less healthy, or dealing with a psychological disorder, says Gerbarg, who teaches psychiatry at New York Medical College.Ã¢ÂÂThose kinds of intense, rapid shifts in your brain chemistry can cause adverse effects,Ã¢ÂÂ she says, adding that she is familiar with cases where people feel they Ã¢ÂÂnever recoveredÃ¢ÂÂ from what these states did to them.

Some literature uses the term kundalini psychosis, or physio kundalini syndrome, to describe people who cognitively lose touch with reality in pursuit of "spiritual awakening."One of GerbargÃ¢ÂÂs concerns about the rise in popularity of these advanced, Eastern breathing practices is how they are inserted into the Western world and modern mindset. (Two other intense and forceful breathing practices include Tummo breathing, with a Tibetan buddhist lineage, and the Wim Hof Method.) The breathwork is often tied closely to a lifestyle and belief system, and many traditional practitioners dedicate hours a day for many years to master the techniques in a healthy way. Alternatively, people in modern Western cultures often struggle to commit to a new practice for 20 minute a day. ÃÂÂ[Intense breathwork] is becoming increasingly popular and people are doing it online,Ã¢ÂÂ Gerbarg says.

ÃÂÂThey arenÃ¢ÂÂt often aware that there are risks,Ã¢ÂÂ or they might not know the pre-existing conditions their students have. The big responsibility ultimately falls on the teachers and facilitators to ensure everyone is safe. A Gentler TouchGerbarg and her husband Richard Brown, a professor of psychiatry at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, have published several books on the healing potential of breath. And they offer evidence-based workshops and teaching resources through their Breath-Body-Mind Foundation.One of their most popular techniques, called coherent breathing, teaches gentle, slower and relaxed respiration.

Once practitioners learn it, they can use it any point throughout the day when stress or anxiety is likely to rise up Ã¢ÂÂ even in mundane circumstances like being stuck in a long line Ã¢ÂÂ and trigger a string of reactions in the body.The goal is to inhale and exhale slowly through the nose at a rate of about five breaths per minute, or one breath cycle every 12 seconds. Gerbarg says this process can promptly activate the rest-and-restore parasympathetic nervous system throughout the body, with millions of reactions and signals firing every second.Read More. How Slow, Deep Breathing Taps Into a Natural Rhythm in Our BodiesÃ¢ÂÂIt tells the brain, Ã¢ÂÂthe conditions are safe,Ã¢ÂÂ Ã¢ÂÂ she says. ÃÂÂThe less effort, the more you get out of this one.Ã¢ÂÂThe results of this technique may not feel like the freight-train experience of altered consciousness.

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They have always believed in mRNAÃ¢ÂÂs ability to protect against not only the likes of erectile dysfunction, but also a host of deadly diseases that resist traditional treatments, from malaria to HIV to cancer. In 2018, long before the past yearÃ¢ÂÂs confidence-boosting display, a group of researchers announced Ã¢ÂÂa new era in vaccinology.Ã¢ÂÂIt remains to be seen whether mRNA viagra 100mg online will live up to the hype. With concrete results attesting to its potential, though, interest is growing among investors and researchers alike.

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The new shots, as their name suggests, introduce only mRNA Ã¢ÂÂ the genetic material that, as you may remember from high school biology, carries instructions for making proteins. Once the mRNA enters the cells, particles called ribosomes read its instructions and use them to build the encoded proteins viagra 100mg online. In the case of the erectile dysfunction treatments, those proteins are the crown-shaped Ã¢ÂÂspikeÃ¢ÂÂ antigens from which the erectile dysfunction derives its name (Ã¢ÂÂcoronaÃ¢ÂÂ means crown in Latin).

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In February, viagra 100mg online for example, Bucala and his colleagues patented a treatment against malaria, which has likely killed more humans than any other single cause and has mostly withstood immunization.Justin Richner, an immunologist with the University of Illinois, Chicago, is developing an mRNA treatment for dengue, another highly resistant viagra. Because mRNA is simply a genetic sequence, scientists can easily tweak it as necessary to find the most effective combination. ÃÂÂOne of the advantages of the mRNA platform is how it can be so easily modified and viagra 100mg online manipulated to test novel hypotheses,Ã¢ÂÂ Richner says.Read more.

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ÃÂÂI do think the influenza treatment field will be transformed in the not too distant future,Ã¢ÂÂ Richner says. A similar kind of gene-based treatment, made with self-amplifying RNA (saRNA), is even more nimble. Whereas basic mRNA treatments Ã¢ÂÂ like ModernaÃ¢ÂÂs and Pfizer-BioNTechÃ¢ÂÂs Ã¢ÂÂ inject all the genetic material at once, the self-amplifying version replicates itself inside the cell.

Just a small dose of this potent product can trigger the same immune response as a syringe-full of the current shots. BucalaÃ¢ÂÂs malaria treatment and GeallÃ¢ÂÂs cancer treatments both use this technology. ÃÂÂThe big problem is that treatments donÃ¢ÂÂt prevent s,Ã¢ÂÂ Bucala says.

ÃÂÂVaccinations prevent s.Ã¢ÂÂ With saRNA, manufacturers can ensure a lot more of them. After mRNAÃ¢ÂÂs brilliant battle against erectile dysfunction treatment, itÃ¢ÂÂs tempting to think of it as a panacea. But, Bucala says, Ã¢ÂÂIs there something intrinsically revolutionary about mRNA?.

treatment development isnÃ¢ÂÂt typically a lucrative business, but erectile dysfunction treatment has made more than a few billionaires, Ã¢ÂÂand others are watching,Ã¢ÂÂ Bucala says. ÃÂÂI think it should become economically viable in our [current] model to get into treatment work again.Ã¢ÂÂGeall agrees. Even if some mRNA endeavors fizzle out, at least a few are bound to make the world proud.

ÃÂÂThereÃ¢ÂÂs a lot of money out there that is going to be invested into these new approaches,Ã¢ÂÂ he says. ÃÂÂWeÃ¢ÂÂre going to see failures, but weÃ¢ÂÂre going to see successes for sure.Ã¢ÂÂWhen the U.S. Cracked down on drugs in the 1970s, the effort dried up most funding and research into psychedelic substances Ã¢ÂÂ which only in the past few years have regained momentum in the field of psychotherapy.

In the Ã¢ÂÂ70s, rather than shut down all his work, one psychedelic researcher at Johns Hopkins University, Stan Grof, turned his attention to another potential avenue for attaining non-ordinary states of consciousness. Breathing.Grof, alongside his wife at the time, Christina Grof, developed the term Holotropic Breathwork for this technique, which loosely translates as Ã¢ÂÂmoving toward wholeness.Ã¢ÂÂ The practice in experiential psychotherapy emerged in the 1980s as a tool for self-exploration and inner healing, and has certified teaches who now facilitate it around the world. The framework integrates music with modern consciousness research, psychology and Eastern spiritual practices, according to the Grof Transpersonal Training program.Many people today teach this intense breathing practice, and other similar techniques that preceded it, such as kundalini yoga or pranayama.

ÃÂÂItÃ¢ÂÂs deceptively simple. It seems like just turning on music, laying down and taking some breaths, and away you go,Ã¢ÂÂ Butterfield says. ÃÂÂWhat weÃ¢ÂÂre actually relying on is the spontaneous mobilization of the psyche.Ã¢ÂÂFirst and foremost, a guided Holotropic Breathwork session requires creating a safe container, Butterfield says, where people can let go of inhibitions or mental blocks.

Facilitators are trained to guide people through that process in a group setting.One session lasts between two and three hours Ã¢ÂÂ often as part of a weekend or week-long retreat. People pair off and alternate in the roles of Ã¢ÂÂsitterÃ¢ÂÂ (assisting the other) and Ã¢ÂÂbreatherÃ¢ÂÂ (the person doing the heavy breathing). To begin, rhythmic drumming sets the mood.

The breather lays down and starts breathing rapidly, in a continuous way with no real break between inhales and exhales.The music typically has an emotional arc, almost like a movie soundtrack. It might start off evocative and stimulating, then turn Ã¢ÂÂincreasingly dramatic and dynamic, and finally it reaches a breakthrough quality,Ã¢ÂÂ according to a guide written by Stan and Christina Grof. This guide notes that when the breathing leads to non-ordinary states of consciousness in a practitioner, Ã¢ÂÂthere is a potential for unusually intense projections, including regressed longings for nurturing, sexual contact, or spiritual connection.Ã¢ÂÂ Facilitators are advised to assist clients with these feelings as they arise, while following their agreement to conduct the practice in an ethical manner.Butterfield says one core principle, like somatic therapy, is for participants to become aware of the messages and wisdom in their own body.

The reported dramatic experiences spark questions about what might actually be happening within the body and brain.Mysticism or Hyperventilation?. Pulmonologist Michael Stephen, author of the book Breath Taking, says the practice of Holotropic Breathwork raises red flags for him because of its use of over-breathing, or hyperventilation. Biologically, when someone breathes heavily for an extended period, they can lose too much carbon dioxide, which makes the blood overly alkaline.

The phenomenon often triggers an immediately physiological response. ÃÂÂWe start to get tingly in our fingers and dizzy when we hyperventilate, as our pH is rising too much,Ã¢ÂÂ says Stephen.Prolonged, excessive pH levels in the blood can also cause seizures, he adds. ÃÂÂJust before seizures happen, you can get lightheaded, a sort of high.Ã¢ÂÂ He attributes this to the non-ordinary states of consciousness that people might feel during Holotropic Breathwork.

But he says few proper studies have been done on the practice because of the dangers and ethics involved.Casualties of Heavy BreathingAnother breath specialist and integrative psychiatrist, Patricia Gerbarg, says that Holotropic Breathwork, and other forceful respiratory practices such as breath of fire, do have the potential to alter the mind. They can also bring about a lasting impact on people, but itÃ¢ÂÂs not always beneficial or predictable.Ã¢ÂÂItÃ¢ÂÂs a stress on the system. YouÃ¢ÂÂre going through rapid changes in oxygen levels and the balance of various substances in the body and the brain,Ã¢ÂÂ she says.

But the same behavior can be harmful to someone who is less healthy, or dealing with a psychological disorder, says Gerbarg, who teaches psychiatry at New York Medical College.Ã¢ÂÂThose kinds of intense, rapid shifts in your brain chemistry can cause adverse effects,Ã¢ÂÂ she says, adding that she is familiar with cases where people feel they Ã¢ÂÂnever recoveredÃ¢ÂÂ from what these states did to them. Some literature uses the term kundalini psychosis, or physio kundalini syndrome, to describe people who cognitively lose touch with reality in pursuit of "spiritual awakening."One of GerbargÃ¢ÂÂs concerns about the rise in popularity of these advanced, Eastern breathing practices is how they are inserted into the Western world and modern mindset. (Two other intense and forceful breathing practices include Tummo breathing, with a Tibetan buddhist lineage, and the Wim Hof Method.) The breathwork is often tied closely to a lifestyle and belief system, and many traditional practitioners dedicate hours a day for many years to master the techniques in a healthy way.

Alternatively, people in modern Western cultures often struggle to commit to a new practice for 20 minute a day. ÃÂÂ[Intense breathwork] is becoming increasingly popular and people are doing it online,Ã¢ÂÂ Gerbarg says. ÃÂÂThey arenÃ¢ÂÂt often aware that there are risks,Ã¢ÂÂ or they might not know the pre-existing conditions their students have.

The big responsibility ultimately falls on the teachers and facilitators to ensure everyone is safe. A Gentler TouchGerbarg and her husband Richard Brown, a professor of psychiatry at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, have published several books on the healing potential of breath. And they offer evidence-based workshops and teaching resources through their Breath-Body-Mind Foundation.One of their most popular techniques, called coherent breathing, teaches gentle, slower and relaxed respiration.

ÃÂÂThe less effort, the more you get out of this one.Ã¢ÂÂThe results of this technique may not feel like the freight-train experience of altered consciousness. But it carries less risk and broader appeal to anyone interested in channeling their own breath for health and wellness..

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Elon Musk on Friday unveiled a coin-sized prototype of a brain implant developed by his startup Get More Info Neuralink to enable people who are paralyzed to operate smartphones and robotic limbs with their thoughts Ã¢ÂÂ and said the company had worked to Ã¢ÂÂdramatically simplifyÃ¢ÂÂ the device since presenting an earlier version last summer.In an event live-streamed on YouTube to more than 150,000 viewers at one point, the company staged a demonstration in which purple viagra pill it trotted out a pig named Gertrude that was said to have had the companyÃ¢ÂÂs device implanted in its head two months ago. The live stream showed what Musk claimed to be GertrudeÃ¢ÂÂs real-time brain activity as it sniffed around a pen. At no point, though, did he provide evidence that the signals Ã¢ÂÂ rendered in beeps and bright blue wave patterns on screen Ã¢ÂÂ were, in fact, emanating from the pigÃ¢ÂÂs brain.A pig presented at a Neuralink demonstration purple viagra pill was said to have one of the companyÃ¢ÂÂs brain implants in its head.

YouTube screenshotÃ¢ÂÂThis is obviously sounding increasingly like a Black Mirror episode,Ã¢ÂÂ Musk said at one point during the event as he responded affirmatively to a question about whether the companyÃ¢ÂÂs implant could eventually be used to save and replay memories. ÃÂÂThe futureÃ¢ÂÂs going to be weird.Ã¢ÂÂadvertisement Musk said that in July Neuralink received a breakthrough device designation from the Food and Drug Administration Ã¢ÂÂ a regulatory pathway that could allow the company purple viagra pill to soon start a clinical trial in people with paraplegia and tetraplegia. The big reveal came after four former Neuralink employees told STAT that the companyÃ¢ÂÂs leaders have long fostered an internal culture characterized by rushed timelines and the Ã¢ÂÂmove fast and break thingsÃ¢ÂÂ ethos of a tech company Ã¢ÂÂ a pace sometimes at odds with the slow and incremental pace thatÃ¢ÂÂs typical of medical device development.

Advertisement FridayÃ¢ÂÂs event began, 40 minutes late, with a glossy video about the companyÃ¢ÂÂs work Ã¢ÂÂ and then panned to Musk, standing in front of a blue curtain beside a gleaming new version of the companyÃ¢ÂÂs surgical Ã¢ÂÂsewing machineÃ¢ÂÂ robot that could easily have been purple viagra pill mistaken for a giant Apple device. Musk described the event as a Ã¢ÂÂproduct demoÃ¢ÂÂ and said its primary purpose was to recruit potential new employees. It was unclear whether the demonstration was taking place at the companyÃ¢ÂÂs Fremont, purple viagra pill Calif., headquarters or elsewhere.

Musk proceeded to reveal the new version of NeuralinkÃ¢ÂÂs brain implant, which he said was designed to fit snugly into the top of the skull. NeuralinkÃ¢ÂÂs technological design has changed significantly purple viagra pill since its last big update in July 2019. At that time, the companyÃ¢ÂÂs brain implant system involved a credit-card sized device designed to be positioned behind the back of a personÃ¢ÂÂs ear, with several wires stretching to the top of the skull.

After demonstrating the pigÃ¢ÂÂs brain activity at FridayÃ¢ÂÂs event, Musk showed video footage of a pig walking on a treadmill and said NeuralinkÃ¢ÂÂs device could be purple viagra pill used to Ã¢ÂÂpredict the position of limbs with high accuracy.Ã¢ÂÂ That capability would be critical to allowing someone using the device to do something like controlling a prosthetic limb, for example.Neuralink for months has signaled that it initially plans to develop its device for people who are paralyzed. It said at its July 2019 event that it wanted to start human testing by the end of 2020. Receiving the breakthrough device designation from the FDA Ã¢ÂÂ designed to speed up the lengthy regulatory process purple viagra pill Ã¢ÂÂ is a step forward, but it by no means guarantees that a device will receive a green light, either in a short or longer-term time frame.

After MuskÃ¢ÂÂs presentation, a handful of the companyÃ¢ÂÂs employees Ã¢ÂÂ all wearing masks, but seated only inches apart Ã¢ÂÂ joined him to take questions submitted on Twitter or from the small audience in the room.In typical fashion for a man who in 2018 sent a Tesla Roadster into space, Musk didnÃ¢ÂÂt hesitate to use the event to cross-promote his electric car company. Asked whether the Neuralink chip would purple viagra pill allow people to summon their Tesla telepathically, Musk responded. ÃÂÂDefinitely Ã¢ÂÂ of course.Ã¢ÂÂMatthew MacDougall, the companyÃ¢ÂÂs head neurosurgeon, appearing in scrubs, said the company had so far only implanted its technology into the brainÃ¢ÂÂs cortical surface, the coaster-width layer enveloping the brain, but added that it hoped to go deeper in the future.

Still, Musk purple viagra pill said. ÃÂÂYou could solve blindness, you could solve paralysis, you could solve hearing Ã¢ÂÂ you can solve a lot just by interfacing with the cortex.Ã¢ÂÂMusk and MacDougall said they hoped to eventually implant NeuralinkÃ¢ÂÂs devices Ã¢ÂÂ which they referred to on stage simply as Ã¢ÂÂlinksÃ¢ÂÂ Ã¢ÂÂ in the deeper structures of the brain, such as in the hypothalamus, which is believed to play a critical role in mental illnesses including depression, anxiety, and PTSD.There were no updates at the event of NeuralinkÃ¢ÂÂs research in monkeys, which the company has been conducting in partnership with the University of California, Davis since 2017. At last JulyÃ¢ÂÂs event, Musk said Ã¢ÂÂ without providing evidence Ã¢ÂÂ that a monkey had controlled a computer with its brain.At that same July 2019 event, Neuralink released a preprint paper Ã¢ÂÂ published a few months later Ã¢ÂÂ that claimed to purple viagra pill show that a series of Neuralink electrodes implanted in the brains of rats could record neural signals.

Critically, the work did not show where in the brain the implanted electrodes were recording from, for how long they were recording, or whether the recordings could be linked to any of the ratsÃ¢ÂÂ bodily movements.In touting FridayÃ¢ÂÂs event Ã¢ÂÂ and NeuralinkÃ¢ÂÂs technological capabilities Ã¢ÂÂ on Twitter in recent weeks, Musk spoke of Ã¢ÂÂAI symbiosis while u waitÃ¢ÂÂ and referenced the Ã¢ÂÂmatrix in the matrixÃ¢ÂÂ Ã¢ÂÂ a science-fiction reference about revealing the true nature of reality. The progress the company reported on Friday purple viagra pill fell far short of that. NeuralinkÃ¢ÂÂs prototype is ambitious, but it has yet to show evidence that it can match up to the brain-machine interfaces developed by academic labs and other companies.

Other groups have shown that they can listen in on neural activity and allow primates and people to control a purple viagra pill computer cursor with their brain Ã¢ÂÂ so-called Ã¢ÂÂread-outÃ¢ÂÂ technology Ã¢ÂÂ and have also shown that they can use electrical stimulation to input information, such as a command or the heat of a hot cup of coffee, using Ã¢ÂÂwrite-inÃ¢ÂÂ technology. Neuralink said on Friday that its technology would have both read-out and write-in capabilities.Musk acknowledged that Neuralink still has a long way to go. In closing purple viagra pill the event after more than 70 minutes, Musk said.

ÃÂÂThereÃ¢ÂÂs a tremendous amount of work to be done to go from here to a device that is widely available and affordable and reliable.Ã¢ÂÂFollowing the news this week of what appears to have been the first confirmed case of a erectile dysfunction treatment re, other researchers have been coming forward with their own reports. One in Belgium, another in the purple viagra pill Netherlands. And now, one in Nevada.What caught expertsÃ¢ÂÂ attention about the case of the 25-year-old Reno man was not that he appears to have contracted erectile dysfunction (the name of the viagra that causes erectile dysfunction treatment) a second time.

Rather, itÃ¢ÂÂs that his second bout was more serious than his first.Immunologists had expected that if the immune response generated after an initial could not prevent a second purple viagra pill case, then it should at least stave off more severe illness. ThatÃ¢ÂÂs what occurred with the first known re case, in a 33-year-old Hong Kong man.advertisement Still, despite what happened to the man in Nevada, researchers are stressing this is not a sky-is-falling situation or one that should result in firm conclusions. They always presumed people would become vulnerable to erectile dysfunction treatment again some time after recovering from an initial case, based on purple viagra pill how our immune systems respond to other respiratory viagraes, including other erectile dysfunctiones.

ItÃ¢ÂÂs possible that these early cases of re are outliers and have features that wonÃ¢ÂÂt apply to the tens of millions of other people who have already shaken off erectile dysfunction treatment.Ã¢ÂÂThere are millions and millions of cases,Ã¢ÂÂ said Michael Mina, an epidemiologist at HarvardÃ¢ÂÂs T.H. Chan School of purple viagra pill Public Health. The real question that should get the most focus, Mina said, is, Ã¢ÂÂWhat happens to most people?.

ÃÂÂadvertisement But with more re reports likely to make it into the scientific literature soon, and from there into the mainstream press, here purple viagra pill are some things to look for in assessing them.WhatÃ¢ÂÂs the deal with the Nevada case?. The Reno resident in question first tested positive for erectile dysfunction in April after coming down with a sore throat, cough, and headache, as well as nausea and diarrhea. He got better over purple viagra pill time and later tested negative twice.

But then, some 48 days later, the man started experiencing headaches, cough, and other symptoms again. Eventually, he became so sick that he had to be hospitalized and was found to have pneumonia.Researchers sequenced viagra samples from both of his s and found they were different, providing evidence that this was a new distinct from the first. What happens when we purple viagra pill get erectile dysfunction treatment in the first case?.

Researchers are finding that, generally, people who get erectile dysfunction treatment develop a healthy immune response replete with both antibodies (molecules that can block pathogens from infecting cells) and T cells (which help wipe out the viagra). This is what happens after other viral s.In addition to fending purple viagra pill off the viagra the first time, that immune response also creates memories of the viagra, should it try to invade a second time. ItÃ¢ÂÂs thought, then, that people who recover from erectile dysfunction treatment will typically be protected from another case for some amount of time.

With other erectile dysfunctiones, protection is thought to last for perhaps a little less than a year to about three years.But researchers canÃ¢ÂÂt tell how long immunity will purple viagra pill last with a new pathogen (like erectile dysfunction) until people start getting reinfected. They also donÃ¢ÂÂt know exactly what mechanisms provide protection against erectile dysfunction treatment, nor do they know what levels of antibodies or T cells are required to signal that someone is protected through a blood test. (These are called the Ã¢ÂÂcorrelates purple viagra pill of protection.Ã¢ÂÂ) Why do experts expect second cases to be milder?.

With other viagraes, protective immunity doesnÃ¢ÂÂt just vanish one day. Instead, it wanes over purple viagra pill time. Researchers have then hypothesized that with erectile dysfunction, perhaps our immune systems might not always be able to prevent it from getting a toehold in our cells Ã¢ÂÂ to halt entirely Ã¢ÂÂ but that it could still put up enough of a fight to guard us from getting really sick.

Again, this purple viagra pill is what happens with other respiratory pathogens.And itÃ¢ÂÂs why some researchers actually looked at the Hong Kong case with relief. The man had mild to moderate erectile dysfunction treatment symptoms during the first case, but was asymptomatic the second time. It was a demonstration, experts said, of what you would want your immune system purple viagra pill to do.

(The case was only detected because the manÃ¢ÂÂs sample was taken at the airport when he arrived back in Hong Kong after traveling in Europe.)Ã¢ÂÂThe fact that somebody may get reinfected is not surprising,Ã¢ÂÂ Malik Peiris, a virologist at the University of Hong Kong, told STAT earlier this week about the first re. ÃÂÂBut the re didnÃ¢ÂÂt cause disease, so thatÃ¢ÂÂs the first point.Ã¢ÂÂThe Nevada case, then, provides purple viagra pill a counterexample to that. What kind of immune response did the person who was reinfected generate initially?.

Earlier, we described the robust immune response purple viagra pill that most people who have erectile dysfunction treatment seem to mount. But that was a generalization. s and purple viagra pill the immune responses they induce in different people are Ã¢ÂÂheterogeneous,Ã¢ÂÂ said Sarah Cobey, an epidemiologist and evolutionary biologist at the University of Chicago.Older people often generate weaker immune responses than younger people.

Some studies have also indicated that milder cases of erectile dysfunction treatment induce tamer immune responses that might not provide as lasting or as thorough of a defense as stronger immune responses. The man in Hong Kong, for example, did not generate antibodies to the viagra after his first , purple viagra pill at least to the level that could be detected by blood tests. Perhaps that explains why he contracted the viagra again just about 4 1/2 months after recovering from his initial .In the Nevada case, researchers did not test what kind of immune response the man generated after the first case.Ã¢ÂÂ is not some binary event,Ã¢ÂÂ Cobey said.

And with re, Ã¢ÂÂthereÃ¢ÂÂs going to be some viral replication, but the question is how much is purple viagra pill the immune system getting engaged?. ÃÂÂWhat might be broadly meaningful is when people who mounted robust immune responses start getting reinfected, and how severe their second cases are. Are people who have erectile dysfunction treatment purple viagra pill a second time infectious?.

As discussed, immune memory can prevent re. If it canÃ¢ÂÂt, it might purple viagra pill stave off serious illness. But thereÃ¢ÂÂs a third aspect of this, too.Ã¢ÂÂThe most important question for re, with the most serious implications for controlling the viagra, is whether reinfected people can transmit the viagra to others,Ã¢ÂÂ Columbia University virologist Angela Rasmussen wrote in Slate this week.Unfortunately, neither the Hong Kong nor the Reno studies looked at this question.

But if most people who get reinfected donÃ¢ÂÂt spread the viagra, thatÃ¢ÂÂs obviously good news purple viagra pill. What happens when people broadly become susceptible again?. Whether itÃ¢ÂÂs six months after the first purple viagra pill or nine months or a year or longer, at some point, protection for most people who recover from erectile dysfunction treatment is expected to wane.

As the Nevada researchers wrote, Ã¢ÂÂthe generalizability of this finding is unknown.Ã¢ÂÂAn advocacy group has asked the Department of Defense to investigate what it called Ã¢ÂÂan apparent failureÃ¢ÂÂ by Moderna (MRNA) to disclose purple viagra pill millions of dollars in awards received from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in patent applications the company filed for treatments.In a letter to the agency, Knowledge Ecology International explained that a review of dozens of patent applications found the company received approximately $20 million from the federal government in grants several years ago and the funds Ã¢ÂÂlikelyÃ¢ÂÂ led to the creation of its treatment technology. This was used to develop treatments to combat different viagraes, such as Zika and, later, the viagra that causes erectile dysfunction treatment.In arguing for an investigation, the advocacy group maintained Moderna is obligated under federal law to disclose the grants that led to nearly a dozen specific patent applications and explained the financial support means the U.S. Government would have certain rights over purple viagra pill the patents.

In other words, U.S. Taxpayers would have an ownership purple viagra pill stake in treatments developed by the company.advertisement Ã¢ÂÂThis clarifies the publicÃ¢ÂÂs right in the inventions,Ã¢ÂÂ said Jamie Love, who heads Knowledge Ecology International, a nonprofit that tracks patents and access to medicines issues. ÃÂÂThe disclosure (also) changes the narrative about who has financed the inventive activity, often the most risky part of development.Ã¢ÂÂ advertisement One particular patent assigned to Moderna concerns methods and compositions that can be used specifically against erectile dysfunctiones, including erectile dysfunction treatment.

The patent names a Moderna scientist and a former Moderna scientist as inventors, both of which acknowledged performing work under the DARPA awards in two academic papers, according to the report by the advocacy group.The group examined the 126 patents assigned to Moderna or ModernaTx as well as 154 patent applications. ÃÂÂDespite the evidence that purple viagra pill multiple inventions were conceived in the course of research supported by the DARPA awards, not a single one of the patents or applications assigned to Moderna disclose U.S. Federal government funding,Ã¢ÂÂ the report stated.We asked Moderna and the Department of Defense for comment and will update you accordingly.The missive to the Department of Defense follows a recent analysis by Public Citizen, another advocacy group, indicating the National Institutes of Health may own mRNA-1273, the Moderna treatment candidate for erectile dysfunction treatment.

The advocacy group noted the federal government filed multiple patents covering the treatment and two patent applications, in particular, list federal scientists as co-inventors.The analyses are part of purple viagra pill a larger campaign among advocacy groups and others in the U.S. And elsewhere to ensure that erectile dysfunction treatment medical products are available to poor populations around the world. The concern reflects the unprecedented purple viagra pill global demand for therapies and treatments, and a race among wealthy nations to snap up supplies from treatment makers.

In the U.S., the effort has focused on the extent to which the federal government has provided taxpayer dollars to different companies to help fund their discoveries. In some cases, advocates argue that federal funding matters because it clarifies the rights purple viagra pill that the U.S. Government has to ensure a therapy or treatment is available to Americans on reasonable terms.One example has been remdesivir, the Gilead Sciences (GILD) treatment being given to hospitalized erectile dysfunction treatment patients.

The role purple viagra pill played by the U.S. Government in developing remdesivir to combat erectile dysfunctiones involved contributions from government personnel at such agencies as the U.S. Army Medical purple viagra pill Research Institute of Infectious Diseases.As for the Moderna treatment, earlier this month, the company was awarded a $1.525 billion contract by the Department of Defense and the Department of Health and Human Services to manufacture and deliver 100 million doses of its erectile dysfunction treatment.

The agreement also includes an option to purchase another 400 million doses, although the terms were not disclosed. In announcing the agreement, the government said it would ensure Americans receive the erectile dysfunction treatment at no cost, although they may be charged purple viagra pill by health care providers for administering a shot.In this instance, however, Love said the Ã¢ÂÂletter is not about price or profits. ItÃ¢ÂÂs about (Moderna) not owning up to DARPA funding inventions.

If the U.S purple viagra pill. Wants to pay for all of the development of ModernaÃ¢ÂÂs treatment, as Moderna now acknowledges, and throw in a few more billion now, and an option to spend billions more, itÃ¢ÂÂs not unreasonable to have some transparency over who paid for their inventions.Ã¢ÂÂThis is not the first time Moderna has been accused of insufficient disclosure. Earlier this month, Knowledge Ecology International and Public Citizen maintained the company failed to disclose development costs purple viagra pill in a $955 million contract awarded by BARDA for its erectile dysfunction treatment.

In all, the federal government has awarded the company approximately $2.5 billion to develop the treatment.The coming few weeks represent a crucial moment for an ambitious plan to try to secure erectile dysfunction treatments for roughly 170 countries around the world without the deep pockets to compete for what will be scarce initial supplies.Under the plan, countries that want to pool resources to buy treatments must notify the World Health Organization and other organizers Ã¢ÂÂ Gavi, the treatment Alliance, as well as the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations Ã¢ÂÂ of their intentions by Monday. That means itÃ¢ÂÂs fish-or-cut-bait time for purple viagra pill the so-called COVAX facility.Already, wealthy countries Ã¢ÂÂ the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, Canada, and Australia, among others, as well as the European Union Ã¢ÂÂ have opted to buy their own treatment, signing bilateral contracts with manufacturers that have secured billions of doses of treatment already. That raises the possibility that less wealthy countries will be boxed out of supplies.advertisement And yet Richard Hatchett, the CEO of CEPI, insists there is a path to billions of doses of treatment for the rest of the world in 2021.

STAT spoke purple viagra pill with Hatchett this week. A transcript of the conversation, lightly edited for clarity and length, follows. You said this is a critical time for CEPI purple viagra pill.

Can you explain what needs to happen between now and mid-September for this joint purchasing approach to be a success?. Advertisement The critical moment is now for countries to commit to the COVAX facility, because that will enable us to secure ample quantities of treatment purple viagra pill and then to be able to convey when that treatment is likely to become available based on current information.What weÃ¢ÂÂre now here asking countries to do is to indicate their intent to participate by Aug. 31, and to make a binding commitment by Sept.

18. And to provide funds in support of that binding commitment by early October. Our negotiations with companies are already taking place and it will be important for us from a planning purpose that countries indicate their intent to participate.Those binding commitments we think will be sufficient to allow us to then secure the advance purchase agreements, particularly with those companies that donÃ¢ÂÂt have a prior contractual obligation to COVAX.

And then obviously, we need the funds to live up to those advance purchase agreements.Is it possible this thing could still fall apart?. There appears to be some concern COVAX has been boxed out by rich countries. There was always a possibility that there wouldnÃ¢ÂÂt be sufficient uptake.

But I think weÃ¢ÂÂre very encouraged at this point by the level of commitment, both from countries that would be beneficiaries of the advance market commitment Ã¢ÂÂ thatÃ¢ÂÂs the lower-income, lower-middle-income countries Ã¢ÂÂ as well as the self-financing countries. To have over 170 countries expressing interest in participating Ã¢ÂÂ they see the value.WeÃ¢ÂÂre much more encouraged now that itÃ¢ÂÂs not going to fall apart. We still need to bring it off to maximize its value.

And weÃ¢ÂÂre right at the crunch moment where countries are going to have to make these commitments. So, the next month is really absolutely critical to the facility. I am confident at this point that the world recognizes the value and wants it to work.IÃ¢ÂÂve been keeping tabs on advance purchase agreements that have been announced.

And at this point, a small number of rich countries have nailed down a lot of treatment Ã¢ÂÂ more than 3 billion doses. How hard does that make your job?. The fact that theyÃ¢ÂÂre doing it creates anxiety among other countries.

And that in itself can accelerate the pace. So, IÃ¢ÂÂm not going to say that weÃ¢ÂÂre not watching that with concern.I will say that for COVAX and the facility, this is absolutely critical moment. I think we still have a window of opportunity between now and mid-September Ã¢ÂÂ when weÃ¢ÂÂre asking that the self-financing countries to make their commitments Ã¢ÂÂ to make the facility real and to make it work.

Between doses that are committed to COVAX through the access agreements and other agreements Ã¢ÂÂ these are discussions with partners that CEPI has funded as well as partners that CEPI has not funded Ã¢ÂÂ we still see a pathway for COVAX to well over 3 billion doses in 2021.I think itÃ¢ÂÂs really important to bear in mind is that there are at least a few countries Ã¢ÂÂ and I think the U.S. And the U.K. Most publicly Ã¢ÂÂ that may be in a situation of significant oversupply.

I believe the U.S. And U.K. Numbers, if you add them together, would result in enough treatment for 600 million people to receive two doses of treatment each.

And, you know, there is no possible way that the U.S. Or the U.K. Can use that much treatment.So, there may be a lot of extra supply that looks like itÃ¢ÂÂs been tied up sloshing around later.

I donÃ¢ÂÂt think that the bilateral deals that have been struck are going to prevent COVAX from achieving its goals.But if so much treatment has been pre-ordered by rich countries, can countries in the COVAX pool get enough for their needs?. One of the things that weÃ¢ÂÂve argued through COVAX is that to control the viagra or to end the acute phase of the viagra to allow normalcy to start to reassert itself, you donÃ¢ÂÂt have to vaccinate 100% of your population.You need to vaccinate those at greatest risk for bad outcomes and you need to vaccinate certain critical workers, particularly your health care workforce. And if you can achieve that goal, which for most countries means vaccinating between 20% and maybe 30% of the population, then you can transform the viagra into something that is much more manageable.

Then you can buy yourself time to vaccinate everybody who wants to be vaccinated.WeÃ¢ÂÂve argued the COVAX facility really offers the world the best shot at doing that globally in the fastest possible way, as well as providing for equitable access. This is a case where doing the equitable thing is also doing the efficient thing.CEPI has provided funding to nine treatments. Is it true that all those manufacturers arenÃ¢ÂÂt required to provide the COVAX facility with treatment?.

That is correct. One of the things that we did, and I think it was an important role that CEPI played early on, was that we moved money very, very quickly, in small increments. You know, some of the early contracts were only $5 million or $10 million, to get programs up and running while we potentially put in place much larger-scale, longer-term contracts.If you were doing it over again, would you have given money without strings attached?.

Yes, I think I would have. I think that was critically important to initiating programs.Our contract with Moderna was established in about 48 hours. And that provided critical funding to them to manufacture doses that got them into clinical trials within nine weeks of the genetic sequences [of the erectile dysfunction viagra] being released.And if you look at the nine programs that weÃ¢ÂÂve invested in, seven are in clinical trials.

Two Ã¢ÂÂ the AstraZeneca program now and the Moderna program Ã¢ÂÂ are among the handful in Phase 3 clinical trials. And, I think the number of projects that that we funded initially, which started in kind of a biotech or academic phase that have now been picked up by large multinational corporations, thereÃ¢ÂÂs at least four. The Themis program being picked up by Merck, Oxford University by AstraZeneca, the University of Queensland by CSL, and Clover being in partnership with GSK, I think that speaks to the quality of the programs that we selected.So, I think that combination of rapid review, speed of funding, getting those programs started, getting them oriented in the right direction, I think all of that is critical to where we are now.Companies that got money from CEPI to build out production capacity Ã¢ÂÂ that money came with strings attached, right?.

Yes, exactly. So, where CEPI has made investments that create manufacturing, or secure manufacturing capacity, the commitment has been that the capacity that is attributable to the CEPI investment is committed Ã¢ÂÂ at least right of first refusal Ã¢ÂÂ to the global procurement facility.WASHINGTON Ã¢ÂÂ The Trump administration removed a top Food and Drug Administration communications official from her post on Friday in the wake of several controversial agency misstatements, a senior administration official confirmed to STAT.The spokeswoman, Emily Miller, had played a lead role in defending the FDA commissioner, Stephen Hahn, after he misrepresented data regarding the use of blood plasma from recovered erectile dysfunction treatment patients. The New York Times first reported MillerÃ¢ÂÂs ouster.

MillerÃ¢ÂÂs tenure at as the top FDA spokeswoman lasted only 11 days. Her appointment was viewed with alarm by agency officials who felt her presence at the agency was emblematic of broader political pressure from the Trump administration, STAT first reported earlier this week.advertisement Before joining the FDA, Miller had no experience in health or medicine. Her former role as assistant commissioner for media affairs is typically not an appointment filled by political appointees.

In the wake of HahnÃ¢ÂÂs misstatements on blood plasma, she aggressively defended the commissioner, falsely claiming in a tweet that the therapy Ã¢ÂÂhas shown to be beneficial for 35% of patients.Ã¢ÂÂ An FDA press release on blood plasma, issued less than a week after her appointment, similarly alarmed agency insiders by trumpeting the emergency authorization as Ã¢ÂÂAnother Achievement in AdministrationÃ¢ÂÂs Fight Against [the] viagra.Ã¢ÂÂ.

Elon Musk on Friday unveiled a coin-sized prototype of a brain implant developed by his startup Neuralink to enable people who are paralyzed to operate smartphones and robotic limbs with their thoughts Ã¢ÂÂ and said the company had worked to Ã¢ÂÂdramatically simplifyÃ¢ÂÂ the device since presenting an earlier viagra 100mg online version last summer.In an event live-streamed on YouTube to more than 150,000 viewers at one point, the company staged a demonstration in which it trotted out a pig named Gertrude that was said to have had the companyÃ¢ÂÂs device implanted in its head two months ago. The live stream showed what Musk claimed to be GertrudeÃ¢ÂÂs real-time brain activity as it sniffed around a pen. At no point, though, did he provide evidence that the signals Ã¢ÂÂ rendered in beeps and bright blue wave patterns on screen Ã¢ÂÂ were, in fact, emanating from the viagra 100mg online pigÃ¢ÂÂs brain.A pig presented at a Neuralink demonstration was said to have one of the companyÃ¢ÂÂs brain implants in its head. YouTube screenshotÃ¢ÂÂThis is obviously sounding increasingly like a Black Mirror episode,Ã¢ÂÂ Musk said at one point during the event as he responded affirmatively to a question about whether the companyÃ¢ÂÂs implant could eventually be used to save and replay memories.

ÃÂÂThe futureÃ¢ÂÂs going to be weird.Ã¢ÂÂadvertisement Musk said that in July Neuralink received a breakthrough device designation from the Food and Drug Administration Ã¢ÂÂ a regulatory pathway viagra 100mg online that could allow the company to soon start a clinical trial in people with paraplegia and tetraplegia. The big reveal came after four former Neuralink employees told STAT that the companyÃ¢ÂÂs leaders have long fostered an internal culture characterized by rushed timelines and the Ã¢ÂÂmove fast and break thingsÃ¢ÂÂ ethos of a tech company Ã¢ÂÂ a pace sometimes at odds with the slow and incremental pace thatÃ¢ÂÂs typical of medical device development. Advertisement FridayÃ¢ÂÂs event began, 40 minutes late, with a glossy viagra 100mg online video about the companyÃ¢ÂÂs work Ã¢ÂÂ and then panned to Musk, standing in front of a blue curtain beside a gleaming new version of the companyÃ¢ÂÂs surgical Ã¢ÂÂsewing machineÃ¢ÂÂ robot that could easily have been mistaken for a giant Apple device. Musk described the event as a Ã¢ÂÂproduct demoÃ¢ÂÂ and said its primary purpose was to recruit potential new employees.

It was unclear whether the demonstration was taking place at the companyÃ¢ÂÂs Fremont, viagra 100mg online Calif., headquarters or elsewhere. Musk proceeded to reveal the new version of NeuralinkÃ¢ÂÂs brain implant, which he said was designed to fit snugly into the top of the skull. NeuralinkÃ¢ÂÂs technological viagra 100mg online design has changed significantly since its last big update in July 2019. At that time, the companyÃ¢ÂÂs brain implant system involved a credit-card sized device designed to be positioned behind the back of a personÃ¢ÂÂs ear, with several wires stretching to the top of the skull.

After viagra 100mg online demonstrating the pigÃ¢ÂÂs brain activity at FridayÃ¢ÂÂs event, Musk showed video footage of a pig walking on a treadmill and said NeuralinkÃ¢ÂÂs device could be used to Ã¢ÂÂpredict the position of limbs with high accuracy.Ã¢ÂÂ That capability would be critical to allowing someone using the device to do something like controlling a prosthetic limb, for example.Neuralink for months has signaled that it initially plans to develop its device for people who are paralyzed. It said at its July 2019 event that it wanted to start human testing by the end of 2020. Receiving the breakthrough device designation from the FDA Ã¢ÂÂ designed to speed up the lengthy regulatory process Ã¢ÂÂ is a step forward, but it by no means guarantees that a device viagra 100mg online will receive a green light, either in a short or longer-term time frame. After MuskÃ¢ÂÂs presentation, a handful of the companyÃ¢ÂÂs employees Ã¢ÂÂ all wearing masks, but seated only inches apart Ã¢ÂÂ joined him to take questions submitted on Twitter or from the small audience in the room.In typical fashion for a man who in 2018 sent a Tesla Roadster into space, Musk didnÃ¢ÂÂt hesitate to use the event to cross-promote his electric car company.

Asked whether the Neuralink chip would allow people viagra 100mg online to summon their Tesla telepathically, Musk responded. ÃÂÂDefinitely Ã¢ÂÂ of course.Ã¢ÂÂMatthew MacDougall, the companyÃ¢ÂÂs head neurosurgeon, appearing in scrubs, said the company had so far only implanted its technology into the brainÃ¢ÂÂs cortical surface, the coaster-width layer enveloping the brain, but added that it hoped to go deeper in the future. Still, Musk viagra 100mg online said. ÃÂÂYou could solve blindness, you could solve paralysis, you could solve hearing Ã¢ÂÂ you can solve a lot just by interfacing with the cortex.Ã¢ÂÂMusk and MacDougall said they hoped to eventually implant NeuralinkÃ¢ÂÂs devices Ã¢ÂÂ which they referred to on stage simply as Ã¢ÂÂlinksÃ¢ÂÂ Ã¢ÂÂ in the deeper structures of the brain, such as in the hypothalamus, which is believed to play a critical role in mental illnesses including depression, anxiety, and PTSD.There were no updates at the event of NeuralinkÃ¢ÂÂs research in monkeys, which the company has been conducting in partnership with the University of California, Davis since 2017.

At last JulyÃ¢ÂÂs event, viagra 100mg online Musk said Ã¢ÂÂ without providing evidence Ã¢ÂÂ that a monkey had controlled a computer with its brain.At that same July 2019 event, Neuralink released a preprint paper Ã¢ÂÂ published a few months later Ã¢ÂÂ that claimed to show that a series of Neuralink electrodes implanted in the brains of rats could record neural signals. Critically, the work did not show where in the brain the implanted electrodes were recording from, for how long they were recording, or whether the recordings could be linked to any of the ratsÃ¢ÂÂ bodily movements.In touting FridayÃ¢ÂÂs event Ã¢ÂÂ and NeuralinkÃ¢ÂÂs technological capabilities Ã¢ÂÂ on Twitter in recent weeks, Musk spoke of Ã¢ÂÂAI symbiosis while u waitÃ¢ÂÂ and referenced the Ã¢ÂÂmatrix in the matrixÃ¢ÂÂ Ã¢ÂÂ a science-fiction reference about revealing the true nature of reality. The progress the company reported viagra 100mg online on Friday fell far short of that. NeuralinkÃ¢ÂÂs prototype is ambitious, but it has yet to show evidence that it can match up to the brain-machine interfaces developed by academic labs and other companies.

Other groups have shown that they can listen in on neural activity and allow primates and people to control a computer cursor with their brain Ã¢ÂÂ so-called Ã¢ÂÂread-outÃ¢ÂÂ technology Ã¢ÂÂ and have also shown that they can use electrical stimulation to input information, such as a command viagra 100mg online or the heat of a hot cup of coffee, using Ã¢ÂÂwrite-inÃ¢ÂÂ technology. Neuralink said on Friday that its technology would have both read-out and write-in capabilities.Musk acknowledged that Neuralink still has a long way to go. In closing the event after more than viagra 100mg online 70 minutes, Musk said. ÃÂÂThereÃ¢ÂÂs a tremendous amount of work to be done to go from here to a device that is widely available and affordable and reliable.Ã¢ÂÂFollowing the news this week of what appears to have been the first confirmed case of a erectile dysfunction treatment re, other researchers have been coming forward with their own reports.

One in viagra 100mg online Belgium, another in the Netherlands. And now, one in Nevada.What caught expertsÃ¢ÂÂ attention about the case of the 25-year-old Reno man was not that he appears to have contracted erectile dysfunction (the name of the viagra that causes erectile dysfunction treatment) a second time. Rather, itÃ¢ÂÂs that his second bout was more serious than his first.Immunologists had expected that if the immune response generated after an initial could not prevent a second case, then it should at least stave off more viagra 100mg online severe illness. ThatÃ¢ÂÂs what occurred with the first known re case, in a 33-year-old Hong Kong man.advertisement Still, despite what happened to the man in Nevada, researchers are stressing this is not a sky-is-falling situation or one that should result in firm conclusions.

They always presumed people would become vulnerable to erectile dysfunction treatment again some time after recovering from an initial case, based on viagra 100mg online how our immune systems respond to other respiratory viagraes, including other erectile dysfunctiones. ItÃ¢ÂÂs possible that these early cases of re are outliers and have features that wonÃ¢ÂÂt apply to the tens of millions of other people who have already shaken off erectile dysfunction treatment.Ã¢ÂÂThere are millions and millions of cases,Ã¢ÂÂ said Michael Mina, an epidemiologist at HarvardÃ¢ÂÂs T.H. Chan School viagra 100mg online of Public Health. The real question that should get the most focus, Mina said, is, Ã¢ÂÂWhat happens to most people?.

ÃÂÂadvertisement But with more re reports likely to viagra 100mg online make it into the scientific literature soon, and from there into the mainstream press, here are some things to look for in assessing them.WhatÃ¢ÂÂs the deal with the Nevada case?. The Reno resident in question first tested positive for erectile dysfunction in April after coming down with a sore throat, cough, and headache, as well as nausea and diarrhea. He got better over time and later viagra 100mg online tested negative twice. But then, some 48 days later, the man started experiencing headaches, cough, and other symptoms again.

Eventually, he became so sick that he had to be hospitalized and was found to have pneumonia.Researchers sequenced viagra samples from both of his s and found they were different, providing evidence that this was a new distinct from the first. What happens when viagra 100mg online we get erectile dysfunction treatment in the first case?. Researchers are finding that, generally, people who get erectile dysfunction treatment develop a healthy immune response replete with both antibodies (molecules that can block pathogens from infecting cells) and T cells (which help wipe out the viagra). This is what happens after other viral s.In addition to fending off the viagra the first time, that immune response also creates memories of the viagra, should it viagra 100mg online try to invade a second time.

ItÃ¢ÂÂs thought, then, that people who recover from erectile dysfunction treatment will typically be protected from another case for some amount of time. With other erectile dysfunctiones, protection is thought to last for perhaps a little less than a year to about three years.But researchers canÃ¢ÂÂt tell how long viagra 100mg online immunity will last with a new pathogen (like erectile dysfunction) until people start getting reinfected. They also donÃ¢ÂÂt know exactly what mechanisms provide protection against erectile dysfunction treatment, nor do they know what levels of antibodies or T cells are required to signal that someone is protected through a blood test. (These are called the Ã¢ÂÂcorrelates of protection.Ã¢ÂÂ) Why do experts expect viagra 100mg online second cases to be milder?.

With other viagraes, protective immunity doesnÃ¢ÂÂt just vanish one day. Instead, it wanes viagra 100mg online over time. Researchers have then hypothesized that with erectile dysfunction, perhaps our immune systems might not always be able to prevent it from getting a toehold in our cells Ã¢ÂÂ to halt entirely Ã¢ÂÂ but that it could still put up enough of a fight to guard us from getting really sick. Again, this is what happens with other respiratory viagra 100mg online pathogens.And itÃ¢ÂÂs why some researchers actually looked at the Hong Kong case with relief.

The man had mild to moderate erectile dysfunction treatment symptoms during the first case, but was asymptomatic the second time. It was a demonstration, experts said, of what you would want your immune system to viagra 100mg online do. (The case was only detected because the manÃ¢ÂÂs sample was taken at the airport when he arrived back in Hong Kong after traveling in Europe.)Ã¢ÂÂThe fact that somebody may get reinfected is not surprising,Ã¢ÂÂ Malik Peiris, a virologist at the University of Hong Kong, told STAT earlier this week about the first re. ÃÂÂBut the re didnÃ¢ÂÂt cause viagra 100mg online disease, so thatÃ¢ÂÂs the first point.Ã¢ÂÂThe Nevada case, then, provides a counterexample to that.

What kind of immune response did the person who was reinfected generate initially?. Earlier, we viagra 100mg online described the robust immune response that most people who have erectile dysfunction treatment seem to mount. But that was a generalization. s and the immune responses they induce in different people are Ã¢ÂÂheterogeneous,Ã¢ÂÂ said Sarah Cobey, an epidemiologist and evolutionary viagra 100mg online biologist at the University of Chicago.Older people often generate weaker immune responses than younger people.

Some studies have also indicated that milder cases of erectile dysfunction treatment induce tamer immune responses that might not provide as lasting or as thorough of a defense as stronger immune responses. The man in Hong Kong, for example, did not generate antibodies to the viagra after viagra 100mg online his first , at least to the level that could be detected by blood tests. Perhaps that explains why he contracted the viagra again just about 4 1/2 months after recovering from his initial .In the Nevada case, researchers did not test what kind of immune response the man generated after the first case.Ã¢ÂÂ is not some binary event,Ã¢ÂÂ Cobey said. And with re, Ã¢ÂÂthereÃ¢ÂÂs going to be some viral replication, but the question is how much is the immune viagra 100mg online system getting engaged?.

ÃÂÂWhat might be broadly meaningful is when people who mounted robust immune responses start getting reinfected, and how severe their second cases are. Are people who viagra 100mg online have erectile dysfunction treatment a second time infectious?. As discussed, immune memory can prevent re. If it canÃ¢ÂÂt, it might stave off viagra 100mg online serious illness.

But thereÃ¢ÂÂs a third aspect of this, too.Ã¢ÂÂThe most important question for re, with the most serious implications for controlling the viagra, is whether reinfected people can transmit the viagra to others,Ã¢ÂÂ Columbia University virologist Angela Rasmussen wrote in Slate this week.Unfortunately, neither the Hong Kong nor the Reno studies looked at this question. But if most people who get reinfected donÃ¢ÂÂt viagra 100mg online spread the viagra, thatÃ¢ÂÂs obviously good news. What happens when people broadly become susceptible again?. Whether itÃ¢ÂÂs six months viagra 100mg online after the first or nine months or a year or longer, at some point, protection for most people who recover from erectile dysfunction treatment is expected to wane.

And without the arrival of a treatment and broad uptake of it, that could change the dynamics of local outbreaks.In some communities, itÃ¢ÂÂs thought that more than 20% of residents have experienced an initial erectile dysfunction treatment case, and are thus theoretically protected from another case for some time. That is still below the point of herd immunity Ã¢ÂÂ when enough people are immune that transmission doesnÃ¢ÂÂt viagra 100mg online occur Ã¢ÂÂ but still, the fewer vulnerable people there are, the less likely spread is to occur.On the flip side though, if more people become susceptible to the viagra again, that could increase the risk of transmission. Modelers are starting to factor that possibility into their forecasts.A crucial question for which there is not an answer yet is whether what happened to the man in Reno, where the second case was more severe than the first, remains a rare occurrence, as researchers expect and hope. As the Nevada researchers wrote, Ã¢ÂÂthe generalizability of this finding is viagra 100mg online unknown.Ã¢ÂÂAn advocacy group has asked the Department of Defense to investigate what it called Ã¢ÂÂan apparent failureÃ¢ÂÂ by Moderna (MRNA) to disclose millions of dollars in awards received from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in patent applications the company filed for treatments.In a letter to the agency, Knowledge Ecology International explained that a review of dozens of patent applications found the company received approximately $20 million from the federal government in grants several years ago and the funds Ã¢ÂÂlikelyÃ¢ÂÂ led to the creation of its treatment technology.

This was used to develop treatments to combat different viagraes, such as Zika and, later, the viagra that causes erectile dysfunction treatment.In arguing for an investigation, the advocacy group maintained Moderna is obligated under federal law to disclose the grants that led to nearly a dozen specific patent applications and explained the financial support means the U.S. Government would have certain rights over the patents viagra 100mg online. In other words, U.S. Taxpayers would have an ownership stake in treatments developed by the company.advertisement Ã¢ÂÂThis clarifies the publicÃ¢ÂÂs right in the inventions,Ã¢ÂÂ said Jamie Love, who heads Knowledge viagra 100mg online Ecology International, a nonprofit that tracks patents and access to medicines issues.

ÃÂÂThe disclosure (also) changes the narrative about who has financed the inventive activity, often the most risky part of development.Ã¢ÂÂ advertisement One particular patent assigned to Moderna concerns methods and compositions that can be used specifically against erectile dysfunctiones, including erectile dysfunction treatment. The patent names a Moderna scientist and a former Moderna scientist as inventors, both of which acknowledged performing work under the DARPA awards in two academic papers, according to the report by the advocacy group.The group examined the 126 patents assigned to Moderna or ModernaTx as well as 154 patent applications. ÃÂÂDespite the evidence that viagra 100mg online multiple inventions were conceived in the course of research supported by the DARPA awards, not a single one of the patents or applications assigned to Moderna disclose U.S. Federal government funding,Ã¢ÂÂ the report stated.We asked Moderna and the Department of Defense for comment and will update you accordingly.The missive to the Department of Defense follows a recent analysis by Public Citizen, another advocacy group, indicating the National Institutes of Health may own mRNA-1273, the Moderna treatment candidate for erectile dysfunction treatment.

The advocacy group noted the federal government filed multiple patents covering the treatment and two patent applications, in particular, list federal scientists as co-inventors.The analyses are part of a larger campaign viagra 100mg online among advocacy groups and others in the U.S. And elsewhere to ensure that erectile dysfunction treatment medical products are available to poor populations around the world. The concern reflects the unprecedented global demand for therapies and treatments, and viagra 100mg online a race among wealthy nations to snap up supplies from treatment makers. In the U.S., the effort has focused on the extent to which the federal government has provided taxpayer dollars to different companies to help fund their discoveries.

In some cases, advocates argue that federal funding matters because it clarifies the viagra 100mg online rights that the U.S. Government has to ensure a therapy or treatment is available to Americans on reasonable terms.One example has been remdesivir, the Gilead Sciences (GILD) treatment being given to hospitalized erectile dysfunction treatment patients. The role viagra 100mg online played by the U.S. Government in developing remdesivir to combat erectile dysfunctiones involved contributions from government personnel at such agencies as the U.S.

Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases.As for the Moderna treatment, earlier this month, the company was awarded a $1.525 billion contract by the Department of Defense and the Department of viagra 100mg online Health and Human Services to manufacture and deliver 100 million doses of its erectile dysfunction treatment. The agreement also includes an option to purchase another 400 million doses, although the terms were not disclosed. In announcing the agreement, the government said it would ensure Americans receive the erectile dysfunction treatment at no cost, although viagra 100mg online they may be charged by health care providers for administering a shot.In this instance, however, Love said the Ã¢ÂÂletter is not about price or profits. ItÃ¢ÂÂs about (Moderna) not owning up to DARPA funding inventions.

If the U.S viagra 100mg online. Wants to pay for all of the development of ModernaÃ¢ÂÂs treatment, as Moderna now acknowledges, and throw in a few more billion now, and an option to spend billions more, itÃ¢ÂÂs not unreasonable to have some transparency over who paid for their inventions.Ã¢ÂÂThis is not the first time Moderna has been accused of insufficient disclosure. Earlier this month, Knowledge Ecology International and Public Citizen maintained the company failed to viagra 100mg online disclose development costs in a $955 million contract awarded by BARDA for its erectile dysfunction treatment. In all, the federal government has awarded the company approximately $2.5 billion to develop the treatment.The coming few weeks represent a crucial moment for an ambitious plan to try to secure erectile dysfunction treatments for roughly 170 countries around the world without the deep pockets to compete for what will be scarce initial supplies.Under the plan, countries that want to pool resources to buy treatments must notify the World Health Organization and other organizers Ã¢ÂÂ Gavi, the treatment Alliance, as well as the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations Ã¢ÂÂ of their intentions by Monday.

That means itÃ¢ÂÂs fish-or-cut-bait time for the so-called COVAX facility.Already, wealthy countries Ã¢ÂÂ the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, Canada, and Australia, among others, as viagra 100mg online well as the European Union Ã¢ÂÂ have opted to buy their own treatment, signing bilateral contracts with manufacturers that have secured billions of doses of treatment already. That raises the possibility that less wealthy countries will be boxed out of supplies.advertisement And yet Richard Hatchett, the CEO of CEPI, insists there is a path to billions of doses of treatment for the rest of the world in 2021. STAT spoke viagra 100mg online with Hatchett this week. A transcript of the conversation, lightly edited for clarity and length, follows.

You said this viagra 100mg online is a critical time for CEPI. Can you explain what needs to happen between now and mid-September for this joint purchasing approach to be a success?. Advertisement The critical moment is viagra 100mg online now for countries to commit to the COVAX facility, because that will enable us to secure ample quantities of treatment and then to be able to convey when that treatment is likely to become available based on current information.What weÃ¢ÂÂre now here asking countries to do is to indicate their intent to participate by Aug. 31, and to make a binding commitment by Sept.

There appears to be some concern COVAX has been boxed out by rich countries. There was always a possibility that there wouldnÃ¢ÂÂt be sufficient uptake. But I think weÃ¢ÂÂre very encouraged at this point by the level of commitment, both from countries that would be beneficiaries of the advance market commitment Ã¢ÂÂ thatÃ¢ÂÂs the lower-income, lower-middle-income countries Ã¢ÂÂ as well as the self-financing countries. To have over 170 countries expressing interest in participating Ã¢ÂÂ they see the value.WeÃ¢ÂÂre much more encouraged now that itÃ¢ÂÂs not going to fall apart.

We still need to bring it off to maximize its value. And weÃ¢ÂÂre right at the crunch moment where countries are going to have to make these commitments. So, the next month is really absolutely critical to the facility. I am confident at this point that the world recognizes the value and wants it to work.IÃ¢ÂÂve been keeping tabs on advance purchase agreements that have been announced.

So, IÃ¢ÂÂm not going to say that weÃ¢ÂÂre not watching that with concern.I will say that for COVAX and the facility, this is absolutely critical moment. I think we still have a window of opportunity between now and mid-September Ã¢ÂÂ when weÃ¢ÂÂre asking that the self-financing countries to make their commitments Ã¢ÂÂ to make the facility real and to make it work. Between doses that are committed to COVAX through the access agreements and other agreements Ã¢ÂÂ these are discussions with partners that CEPI has funded as well as partners that CEPI has not funded Ã¢ÂÂ we still see a pathway for COVAX to well over 3 billion doses in 2021.I think itÃ¢ÂÂs really important to bear in mind is that there are at least a few countries Ã¢ÂÂ and I think the U.S. And the U.K.

Most publicly Ã¢ÂÂ that may be in a situation of significant oversupply. I believe the U.S. And U.K. Numbers, if you add them together, would result in enough treatment for 600 million people to receive two doses of treatment each.

And, you know, there is no possible way that the U.S. Or the U.K. Can use that much treatment.So, there may be a lot of extra supply that looks like itÃ¢ÂÂs been tied up sloshing around later. I donÃ¢ÂÂt think that the bilateral deals that have been struck are going to prevent COVAX from achieving its goals.But if so much treatment has been pre-ordered by rich countries, can countries in the COVAX pool get enough for their needs?.

One of the things that weÃ¢ÂÂve argued through COVAX is that to control the viagra or to end the acute phase of the viagra to allow normalcy to start to reassert itself, you donÃ¢ÂÂt have to vaccinate 100% of your population.You need to vaccinate those at greatest risk for bad outcomes and you need to vaccinate certain critical workers, particularly your health care workforce. And if you can achieve that goal, which for most countries means vaccinating between 20% and maybe 30% of the population, then you can transform the viagra into something that is much more manageable. Then you can buy yourself time to vaccinate everybody who wants to be vaccinated.WeÃ¢ÂÂve argued the COVAX facility really offers the world the best shot at doing that globally in the fastest possible way, as well as providing for equitable access. This is a case where doing the equitable thing is also doing the efficient thing.CEPI has provided funding to nine treatments.

Is it true that all those manufacturers arenÃ¢ÂÂt required to provide the COVAX facility with treatment?. That is correct. One of the things that we did, and I think it was an important role that CEPI played early on, was that we moved money very, very quickly, in small increments. You know, some of the early contracts were only $5 million or $10 million, to get programs up and running while we potentially put in place much larger-scale, longer-term contracts.If you were doing it over again, would you have given money without strings attached?.

And, I think the number of projects that that we funded initially, which started in kind of a biotech or academic phase that have now been picked up by large multinational corporations, thereÃ¢ÂÂs at least four. The Themis program being picked up by Merck, Oxford University by AstraZeneca, the University of Queensland by CSL, and Clover being in partnership with GSK, I think that speaks to the quality of the programs that we selected.So, I think that combination of rapid review, speed of funding, getting those programs started, getting them oriented in the right direction, I think all of that is critical to where we are now.Companies that got money from CEPI to build out production capacity Ã¢ÂÂ that money came with strings attached, right?. Yes, exactly. So, where CEPI has made investments that create manufacturing, or secure manufacturing capacity, the commitment has been that the capacity that is attributable to the CEPI investment is committed Ã¢ÂÂ at least right of first refusal Ã¢ÂÂ to the global procurement facility.WASHINGTON Ã¢ÂÂ The Trump administration removed a top Food and Drug Administration communications official from her post on Friday in the wake of several controversial agency misstatements, a senior administration official confirmed to STAT.The spokeswoman, Emily Miller, had played a lead role in defending the FDA commissioner, Stephen Hahn, after he misrepresented data regarding the use of blood plasma from recovered erectile dysfunction treatment patients.

The New York Times first reported MillerÃ¢ÂÂs ouster. MillerÃ¢ÂÂs tenure at as the top FDA spokeswoman lasted only 11 days. Her appointment was viewed with alarm by agency officials who felt her presence at the agency was emblematic of broader political pressure from the Trump administration, STAT first reported earlier this week.advertisement Before joining the FDA, Miller had no experience in health or medicine. Her former role as assistant commissioner for media affairs is typically not an appointment filled by political appointees.

The FDAÃ¢ÂÂs communications arm typically maintains a neutral, nonpolitical tone.MillerÃ¢ÂÂs appointment particularly alarmed FDA staff and outside scientists given her history in right-wing political advocacy and conservatism journalism. Her rÃÂ©sumÃÂ© included a stint as a Washington Times columnist, where she penned columns with titles that include Ã¢ÂÂNew Obamacare ads make young women look like sluts,Ã¢ÂÂ and a 2013 book on gun rights titled Ã¢ÂÂEmily Gets Her Gun. But Obama Wants to Take Yours.Ã¢ÂÂadvertisement She also worked as a reporter for One America News Network, a right-wing cable channel that frequently espouses conspiracy theories and has declared an open alliance with President Trump.Miller quickly made her presence known at the FDA. In the wake of HahnÃ¢ÂÂs misstatements on blood plasma, she aggressively defended the commissioner, falsely claiming in a tweet that the therapy Ã¢ÂÂhas shown to be beneficial for 35% of patients.Ã¢ÂÂ An FDA press release on blood plasma, issued less than a week after her appointment, similarly alarmed agency insiders by trumpeting the emergency authorization as Ã¢ÂÂAnother Achievement in AdministrationÃ¢ÂÂs Fight Against [the] viagra.Ã¢ÂÂ.