President Joe Biden this week signed an executive order that will direct funds and actions toward expanding and improving research on women’s health. The initiative builds on First Lady Jill Biden’s announcement last month in which the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) earmarked $100 million in funds to “fundamentally change” how the U.S. […]
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Jill Biden launches $100M initiative to transform women’s health research
Dr. Jill Biden and the White House this week announced that $100 million in federal funding will go toward research and development into women’s health. The First Lady said the funding is part of a White House Initiative on Women’s Health Research that the White House announced in November. The Federal Department of Health and […]
White House allocates 55M COVID-19 vaccine doses for global distribution
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 […]
Amid controversy, Biden cancels Emergent Biosolutions visit
The White House scrapped plans to hold a meeting today at a Baltimore-based vaccine plant run by Emergent BioSolutions following an exposé from The New York Times. The Biden administration also announced plans to conduct an audit of the Strategic National Stockpile after the publication of the article, which described how the biopharmaceutical company lobbied […]
BREAKING: U.S. to reportedly pay Abbott $750M for new COVID-19 tests
Multiple reports have said President Trump will announce a $750 million deal with Abbott (NYSE:ABT) for 150 million of its rapid COVID-19 antigen tests. As first reported by Politico before being confirmed by other outlets, a White House official said that Trump will announce the deal tonight, using his speech at the Republican National Convention to […]
Battling nightmare infections: the CDC’s plan to beat superbugs
White House tackles superbugs
(Reuters) – The White House is due to issue an ambitious plan to slow the growing and deadly problem of antibiotic resistance over the next 5 years, 1 that requires massive investments and policy changes from a broad array of U.S. government health agencies, according to a copy of the report reviewed by Reuters.
UPDATE: FDA confirms Hamburg to step down
House votes to repeal, replace Obamacare – again
U.S. government releases draft plan for electronic health data
(Reuters) – The Obama administration on Friday proposed a plan to move most doctors, hospitals and their patients to national standards for handling electronic clinical data by the end of 2017.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), as part of an effort to propel the $2.9 trillion U.S. healthcare system away from a costly fee-for-service system, released a report draft aimed at establishing an inter operable health information technology system that can be accessed by patients and their healthcare providers.