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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

Amid controversy, Biden cancels Emergent Biosolutions visit 

March 10, 2021 By Brian Buntz

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 […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Featured Tagged With: anthrax, anthrax vaccine, AstraZeneca, Emergent BioSolutions, Joe Biden, Strategic National Stockpile, White House

BREAKING: U.S. to reportedly pay Abbott $750M for new COVID-19 tests

August 27, 2020 By Sean Whooley

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 […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Contract Manufacturing, Diagnostics, Featured, Genomics/Molecular Diagnostics Tagged With: Abbott, coronavirus, COVID-19, Donald Trump, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, White House

Battling nightmare infections: the CDC’s plan to beat superbugs

March 30, 2015 By MassDevice Leave a Comment

Battling nightmare infections: the CDC's plan to beat supberbugs

(Reuters) — With painstaking effort, a group of Chicago hospitals has managed to cut by half the number of infections caused by an especially deadly type of superbug. Now U.S. health officials want that kind of campaign to go national.

Filed Under: Hospital Care, News Well Tagged With: Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), White House

White House tackles superbugs

March 27, 2015 By MassDevice Leave a Comment

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.

Filed Under: Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Hospital Care, News Well Tagged With: Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), U.S. Dept. of Agriculture (USDA), White House

UPDATE: FDA confirms Hamburg to step down

February 5, 2015 By MassDevice Leave a Comment

Report: FDA commissioner Hamburg to step down

(Reuters) — Dr. Margaret Hamburg, who as commissioner of the FDA for almost 6 years has overseen public health initiatives ranging from tobacco control and food safety to personalized medicine and drug approvals, is stepping down, the agency said today.

Filed Under: Food & Drug Administration (FDA), News Well Tagged With: Personnel Moves, White House

House votes to repeal, replace Obamacare – again

February 4, 2015 By MassDevice Leave a Comment

House votes to repeal, replace Obamacare - again

(Reuters) — The U.S. House of Representatives added another notch to its lengthy record of Obamacare repeal votes yesterday by approving a measure that would scrap the healthcare law and direct oversight committees to come up with a replacement.

Filed Under: Healthcare Reform, News Well Tagged With: U.S. Congress, White House

U.S. government releases draft plan for electronic health data

January 30, 2015 By MassDevice Leave a Comment

(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.

Filed Under: Electronic Medical Records (EMR), News Well Tagged With: U.S. Department of Health, White House

Lack of FDA approval is no longer a deal-breaker for a big exit | The week in medtech M&A

August 6, 2014 By MassDevice Leave a Comment

Report: Medtech M&A exits don't hinge on FDA approval

July 31, 2014 by Arezu Sarvestani

Report: Medtech M&A no longer hinges on FDA approval

Filed Under: Mergers & Acquisitions, News Well Tagged With: Baxter, Covidien, Johnson and Johnson, Pfizer, Silicon Valley Bank, Smith & Nephew, Teleflex, White House

White House rails against Medtronic-style corporate inversions | MassDevice.com On Call

August 1, 2014 By Arezu Sarvestani Leave a Comment

MassDevice.com On Call

MASSDEVICE ON CALL — President Barack Obama took time in this weeks’ regular address to criticize the wave of "corporate inversions," in which companies, such as Medtronic (NYSE:MDT), are using outside-U.S. acquisitions to shift their headquarters overseas.

Filed Under: Legal News, Mergers & Acquisitions, News Well Tagged With: Covidien, Medtronic buys Covidien, On Call, White House

Senate OKs $1T omnibus budget deal, restoring FDA user fees

January 17, 2014 By Brad Perriello Leave a Comment

Senate OKs $1T omnibus budget deal, restoring FDA user fees

The U.S. Senate yesterday approved an omnibus, $1.012 trillion budget bill that includes the restoration of some $85 million in user fees from medical device and pharmaceutical companies that was held in abeyance by sequestration.

President Barack Obama, who has until midnight tomorrow to sign the measure into law, is expected to quickly add his signature after the 72-26 vote in the Upper Chamber.

Filed Under: Food & Drug Administration (FDA), News Well Tagged With: U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, White House

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