Voters want better pandemic preparedness
The lessons of COVID-19 were unequivocal: Pandemic preparedness is key to national security. According to a national poll conducted by the Biotechnology Innovation Organization …
The lessons of COVID-19 were unequivocal: Pandemic preparedness is key to national security. According to a national poll conducted by the Biotechnology Innovation Organization …
The impact of drug price controls on innovation, market distortions caused by pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), and the importance of accelerated approval came up …
House 2024 health budget hearings touch on price controls and PBMs Read More »
The Black Coalition Against COVID (BCAC) was born on Easter Sunday 2020. Dr. Reed Tuckson, the organization’s co-founder recalls, “We looked at the data …
The Accelerated Approval pathway was established by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the 1990s to boost R&D for HIV/AIDS, and the …
I am BIO Podcast: Accelerated Approval, accelerating hope Read More »
According to a recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), drug-resistant Candida auris (C. auris) fungus cases “spread at an …
Drug-resistant C. auris fungi cases tripled in 2021 says CDC Read More »
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Department of Commerce (DOC) will investigate using Bayh-Dole march-in rights as a way to control …
HHS investigating using Bayh-Dole march-in rights for price controls Read More »
The Senate Commerce Committee approved legislation yesterday which prohibits pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) from pocketing the rebates they collect from drug makers. The bill …
Government policy impacting biotech—including drug price controls, pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), accelerated approval, and support for new antibiotics—received a public airing this week when …
People with an aggressive blood cancer that does not respond to treatments have been given new hope for a cure after Syndax Pharmaceuticals’ experimental …
Syndax’s experimental drug signals new chance at life for a third of AML patients Read More »
Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel testified on Capitol Hill yesterday during a hearing that one U.S. Senator compared to a “show trial” and “public shaming” …
Moderna hearing on Capitol Hill is ‘more like a show trial,’ says U.S. Senator Read More »