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How the FDA stood up to the President
20 October 2020 - Dr. Stephen Hahn, the F.D.A. commissioner, occupies a fraught position, caught between pressure from the White House ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 19 Oct 2020
EMA virtual conference: 25 years of advancing public and animal health
19 October 2020 - On 22 October 2020, EMA will mark 25 years of its strong commitment to protect public ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 Oct 2020
Can Trump really speed approval of COVID treatments?
10 October 2020 - In a five minute video posted to his Twitter account on Wednesday, President Trump stood in ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 08 Oct 2020
Accounting for US public funding in drug development: how can we better balance access, affordability, and innovation?
8 October 2020 - US drug prices are the highest in the world and are continuing to rise, with an increasing ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 26 Aug 2020
Developing safe and effective COVID vaccines — Operation Warp speed’s strategy and approach
26 August 2020 - Announced on May 15, Operation Warp Speed— a partnership of the Department of Health and Human ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 25 Aug 2020
As COVID-19 pressures mount, political newcomer Stephen Hahn struggles to protect an FDA under siege
24 August 2020 - Stephen Hahn, a political novice who moved here in December to take over the FDA, has ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 12 Aug 2020
Australian scientists say too early to pick COVID-19 vaccine race winner in advice to Federal Government
13 August 2020 - The leading group of scientists advising the Federal Government says there is still no clear frontrunner in ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 17 Jun 2020
An ‘America first’ pharma supply chain sounds good. But it won’t work.
17 June 2020 - With a stroke of the president’s Executive Order pen, the Trump administration awarded a $354 million, ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 Jun 2020
The Lancet, New England Journal retract COVID-19 studies, including one that raised safety concerns about malaria drugs
4 June 2020 - The Lancet, one of the world’s top medical journals, on Thursday retracted an influential study that ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 03 Jun 2020
The CDC waited its entire existence for this moment. What went wrong?
3 June 2020 - Americans returning from China landed at U.S. airports by the thousands in early February, potential carriers ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 28 May 2020
‘Vaccine nationalism’: a new dynamic in the race to quash coronavirus
27 May 2020 - International pursuit for a shot is shifting into a contest of which world power can immunise its ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 28 May 2020
Modelling epidemics with compartmental models
27 May 2020 - During epidemics, there is a critical need to understand both the likely number of infections and their ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 25 May 2020
How the world’s premier public health agency was handcuffed
23 May 2020 - The CDC has been absent with leave during the spread of COVID-19. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 May 2020
What to expect when a coronavirus vaccine finally arrives
20 May 2020 - Sobering lessons from the history of the polio vaccine. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 May 2020
Europe falls behind U.S. in funding coronavirus vaccine and securing access
19 May 2020 - U.S. was faster in shouldering drug companies’ costs to develop and manufacture vaccine candidates, putting the bloc ...