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President Biden reboots Cancer Moonshot project

February 4, 2022 By Brian Buntz

In 2016, then-Vice President Joe Biden announced a Cancer Moonshot initiative to speed the development of new therapies to treat cancer. Biden is now launching a new initiative committed to improving the cancer survival rate by at least 50% by 2047. The plan also aims to improve the quality of life for patients with cancer. […]

Filed Under: Biotech, Blog, Featured, Pharmaceutical Tagged With: Cancer Moonshot, Joe Biden

Biden announces plans to buy, distribute 500M at-home, rapid COVID-19 tests

December 21, 2021 By Sean Whooley

The White House today announced a COVID-19 response plan that includes a major effort to increase at-home rapid testing. President Joe Biden’s plan includes opening new federal testing sites to increase capacity and the distribution of 500 million at-home, rapid tests to Americans. The Biden administration plans to purchase a half-billion rapid tests this winter […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Contract Manufacturing, Diagnostics, Featured, Genomics/Molecular Diagnostics, News Well Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19, Defense Production Act, Joe Biden

White House allocates 55M COVID-19 vaccine doses for global distribution

June 21, 2021 By Sean Whooley

The Biden-Harris administration today announced a global distribution list for 55 million doses of America’s COVID-19 vaccine supply. Biden pledged to allocate 80 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine supply belonging to the U.S. by the end of June to aid the global fight against the pandemic. Earlier this month, the administration announced the plan […]

Filed Under: Distribution, Featured, Pharmaceutical Tagged With: coronavirus, COVAX, COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccine, Joe Biden, White House

Senator Manchin asks Biden to oust Woodcock over Aduhelm row

June 18, 2021 By Brian Buntz

The West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin III (D-W. Va) sent a letter to President Joe Biden expressing his dismay regarding the FDA’s approval of Aduhelm (aducanumab), the controversial Alzheimer’s treatment from Biogen (NSDQ:BIIB). The nonprofit watchdog group Public Citizen sent a broadly similar letter to HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra to “express its outrage” over the approval and to demand […]

Filed Under: Blog, Featured, Pharmaceutical Tagged With: Aducanumab, Aduhelm, FDA, Joe Biden, Joe Manchin III

Biden administration invests $3B to accelerate development of next-gen COVID-19 treatments

June 17, 2021 By Chris Newmarker

President Joe Biden’s administration will spend $3 billion in American Rescue Plan money to accelerate the discovery, development and manufacturing of antiviral medicines against COVID-19, HHS announced today. Not only will the  Antiviral Program for Pandemics seek to boost the availability of medicines to prevent serious COVID-19 illness and save lives, but it will pursue […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Featured, Pharmaceutical, Research & Development Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19, Dept. of Health & Human Services (HHS), HHS, Joe Biden

Biden to promise world 500 million COVID-19 vaccine doses

June 10, 2021 By Brian Buntz

President Joe Biden has struck a deal with Pfizer (NYSE:PFE) and BioNTech (NSDQ:BNTX) to provide 500 million COVID-19 vaccine doses to roughly 100 countries over two years. The two companies today confirmed the news, saying that the U.S. government will purchase at a not-for-profit price 200 million doses in 2021 and 300 million in early 2022. Doses […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Featured, Pharmaceutical Tagged With: BioNTech, coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccine, Joe Biden, Pfizer

Biden administration wants to boost funding for new pharma manufacturing processes

June 8, 2021 By Sean Whooley

The Biden administration today released findings from 100-day supply chain assessments, determining the need to boost pharmaceutical manufacturing. According to a fact sheet, the administration plans to take immediate action to “address vulnerabilities and strengthen resilience” with its effort to take on near-term supply chain disruptions for four products: semiconductor manufacturing and advanced packaging; large […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Contract Manufacturing, Pharmaceutical Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19, Joe Biden, supply chain

Senate confirms new CMS leader

May 25, 2021 By Sean Whooley

The U.S. Senate today confirmed President Joe Biden’s selection to lead CMS, Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, with a 55-44 vote in favor. Brooks-LaSure will be the first Black woman to hold the position, according to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Twitter. She previously served in the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services during the […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Featured, Healthcare Reform, Legal News, Medicare Tagged With: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), CMS, Dept. of Health & Human Services (HHS), Joe Biden

U.S. to donate 60M doses of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine

April 26, 2021 By Sean Whooley

The Biden administration announced today that it will begin sharing its store of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine following safety reviews. Once the vaccine clears federal safety reviews, 60 million doses of the vaccine are expected to be made available, according to a Tweet from senior White House advisor Andy Slavitt. “BREAKING: U.S. to release 60 million Astra Zeneca […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Contract Manufacturing, Featured, Pharmaceutical Tagged With: AstraZeneca, coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccine, Joe Biden

MedTech 100 roundup: Small dip keeps industry down

March 22, 2021 By Sean Whooley

The last month brought a bit of a skid for the medtech industry and after a slight rebound last week, the downward trend has returned. A strong start to 2021 came to an end in late February and carried over into March, with MassDevice‘s MedTech 100 index hitting its lowest point on March 8 (102.16). It […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Featured, Funding Roundup, Mergers & Acquisitions, Research & Development, Wall Street Beat Tagged With: Bigfoot Biomedical, coronavirus, COVID-19, Joe Biden, MedTech 100 Index, Medtronic, Pfizer, Roche, Viz.ai

Xavier Becerra confirmed as HHS secretary

March 18, 2021 By Sean Whooley

The U.S. Senate narrowly voted to confirm Xavier Becerra as the U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services (HHS) secretary today. Becerra received the nomination for the position from President Joe Biden in December 2020. Today, the Senate voted 50-49 in favor of Becerra, who will have to resign his seat as California’s attorney general. […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Featured, Healthcare Reform, Medicare, Regulatory/Compliance Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19, Dept. of Health & Human Services (HHS), HHS, Joe Biden, U.S. Senate

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