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Mental Health Action Day is a call for connection
While it is important to get past the stigma of mental health challenges, we need to do more. That’s why Mental Health Action Day, […]
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I am BIO Podcast: Dysfunctional drug market means sickest pay more
The convoluted, confusing, and opaque system for pricing drugs is distorting the market—and limiting access to drugs for the sickest patients. This is the
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BIO’s View: Russian aggression demands more investment in medical countermeasures
Along with funding pandemic preparedness, “U.S. policymakers and lawmakers need to broaden their vision to include preparing for human-generated chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear
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Research details climate change’s impact on mental health
Climate change has a negative impact on the planet and our physical health—and according to new research, it also impacts our mental health. During
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World leaders renew commitments to fighting pandemic at COVID-19 Summit
World leaders, meeting virtually Thursday, committed an additional $3.2 billion in support to address the challenge of COVID and renewed their commitments to fighting
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Looking back on the JOBS Act, 10 years later
April marked the 10-year anniversary of the JOBS (Jumpstart Our Business Startups) Act. The bill, which was signed into law thanks to bipartisan support
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FDA user fee agreements advance in House with bipartisan support
The House Energy & Commerce Health Subcommittee on Wednesday marked up six key bills that address the FDA user fee agreements and some other
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White House will host the first food insecurity conference in 50 years
President Biden announced May 4 that the White House will hold a Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health in September, for the first time
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Deadly bird flu has knock-on effect on people
The United States is experiencing its worst avian flu epidemic in years, Bloomberg reports. A new strain with “a near 100 percent mortality rate,”
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Analysis: Brand-name drug prices declined, or rose slightly, in 2021
In 2021, brand-name medicine prices fell—or rose slightly. This is the main finding of Drug Channels’ yearly study of drug prices at ten major
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