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HHS needs better oversight of research that alters pathogens, government watchdog says

19.01.2023

WASHINGTON — The health department’s oversight of research that could enhance dangerous pathogens has vague parameters, a lack of transparency, and “does not fully meet the key elements of effective …

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First Opinion

Opinion: Biopharma leaders helped save democracy. Now what?

18.01.2023

The rule of law must be upheld for free societies and free markets to flourish, and only a well-functioning democracy offers the levers for rational majorities to prevail. Americans support …

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Coronavirus

Biden Covid adviser David Kessler to exit as pandemic response winds down

13.01.2023

WASHINGTON — David Kessler, the D.C. veteran who guided government dispatches of millions of Covid-19 vaccines and treatments, is exiting the Biden administration this month. His departure comes as the …

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Coronavirus / Health

Will America’s public health reckoning ever come?

11.01.2023

WASHINGTON — After 9/11, Congress created an entirely new government agency to address the threat of terrorism, and Americans are still taking off their shoes in airports more than twenty years …

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Coronavirus

Still fuming over the federal Covid response, Republicans redirect the House coronavirus committee

10.01.2023

WASHINGTON — The House’s coronavirus committee will continue in a Republican-controlled chamber — but with a vastly different mandate, reflecting GOP frustration with the federal pandemic response. The revamped, 12-person …

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Coronavirus

Priorities pile up for HHS, FDA, CMS, NIH, and other health agencies

03.01.2023

WASHINGTON — The nation’s health agencies already have a long to-do list for 2023. Top officials have promised reforms in the food, drug, and public health departments as frustrations mount …

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Biotech / Pharma

FDA, Biogen, and an Alzheimer’s drug approval: 8 key takeaways from congressional investigation

29.12.2022

Congressional investigators sorted through more than 500,000 pages of documents from the Food and Drug Administration and Biogen to chronicle how a controversial Alzheimer’s disease drug was approved, and how …

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Health

New FDA guidance explains that Plan B is not an abortion pill

24.12.2022

The Food and Drug Administration on Friday altered the language attached to emergency contraceptive pills to clarify that they are not abortion drugs. The agency’s update eliminates previous language that …

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Coronavirus

After nine months, an update on NIH’s long Covid research

22.12.2022

You’re reading the web edition of D.C. Diagnosis, STAT’s twice-weekly newsletter about the politics and policy of health and medicine. Sign up here to receive it in your inbox. Pandemic response gets …

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