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Biden weighs in on drug costs in US; The latest health stories from around the world

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US President Joe Biden has stepped into a long-running debate about whether the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has legal authority to override an exclusive patent license granted to drug developers if they charge too much for treatments that relied on agency-funded research. In draft policy guidance, the Biden administration says federal agencies would be …

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Oncologist Monica Bertagnolli assigned as Director of US NIH; The latest health stories from around the world

Leave a Comment / Featured, Featured Story, Government policy, Infectious diseases, International, News, Newsletter / By Lalita Panicker

At last, the world’s largest biomedical research agency has a permanent leader. The U.S. Senate recently voted 62-36 to confirm oncologist to direct the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH). https://www.science.org/content/article/u-s-senate-confirms-monica-bertagnolli-nih-director? The confirmation of Bertagnolli, who is expected to be sworn in within days replacing acting Director Lawrence Tabak, brings relief to the biomedical research …

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UK COVID-19 surveillance “flying blind”; The latest health stories from around the world

Leave a Comment / Covid-19, Featured, Featured Story, Government policy, Infectious diseases, International, Medicine and Research, News, Newsletter, Noncommunicable diseases / By Lalita Panicker

The UK is nearly “flying blind” when it comes to COVID this autumn, experts have said, amid an increase in cases. While the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) continues to track some metrics of COVID, including hospitalization numbers, many of the community surveillance studies tracking infection levels have finished. www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/05/uk-almost-flying-blind-on-COVID-this-autumn-experts-say? Now experts have said the …

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Was it American-funded research that went wrong in Wuhan?

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During his tenure US President Donald Trump had accused the Chinese of creating and unleashing the COVID-19 virus on an unsuspecting world, repeatedly calling it the “China virus” for good measure. Ironically, possibilities have now been raised of a US role in China’s virology research. The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has denied that …

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