It has been a blockbuster year for women’s health as the federal government and medtech place particular focus on the wellbeing of women. At the start of the year, President Joe Biden announced the federal government would focus its health initiatives on improving women’s health outcomes. Since then, his administration has announced two other federal […]
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Biden administration tariff hikes target medtech products
President Joe Biden this week placed new tariffs on Chinese imports to address trade practices in technology transfer, intellectual property and innovation. The tariff hikes, directed under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, target strategic sectors. Much of the media coverage around Biden’s tariffs has focused on how they’re meant to prevent China […]
Biden signs executive order for women’s health research and innovation
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. […]
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
(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.
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
(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.
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.
