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Industry Voices: VC questions thinking of Obama's BRAIN initiative
Projects like the moon landing and the Human Genome Project, and now possibly BRAIN, will be among the hallmarks of our civilization, the tracks we leave on the sands of time. Undertakings of this scale and scope with payouts measured in the future of mankind exceed the resources of any individual, even a Bill Gates or a Paul Allen, and the largest research institutes and corporations, though their involvement enhances the program. So what is my concern regarding BRAIN? More >>
As sequestration dawns, FDA supporters scramble to ease woes on drug reviews
Grappling with major government budget cuts, the FDA is seeking remedies to preserve programs of vital interest to pharma and device companies. Now that sequestration has arrived today, power brokers in the White House and Congress could hold the keys to keeping the agency on track.
Groups lobby White House as sunshine rule lingers
The rule for how drug and device makers will have to disclose their financial ties to doctors is 15 months overdue and the longer White House officials sit on it, the more lobbying it gets from different sides trying to shape its final wording.
AARP, AFL-CIO and prominent docs to White House: Get us the sunshine rules, stat
Remember the Physician Payments Sunshine Act? If it's a vague memory, don't feel bad. The legislation that mandated disclosure of financial ties between industry and doctors is years old now. And because regulations to implement the act are 15 months overdue, it's not exactly front-of-mind for the average pharma-watcher.
Obama seeks to beat Alzheimer's by 2025
The Obama administration wants the U.S. to figure out how to effectively treat and even prevent Alzheimer's disease by 2025, arguably a medical equivalent of President John F. Kennedy's challenge to
Obama administration finally proposes doc-disclosure rules
Ready for doc-payment disclosure rules in the U.S.? They've been promised for years now, ever since Sen. Charles Grassley and his cohorts started hammering on drugmakers' payments to physicians,
Supreme Court hears patent-description fight
The U.S. Supreme Court has the chance to make it easier for generics makers to fight against certain patent protections--or to make sure branded drugmakers have to face certain challenges at all. The
Obama to order new FDA action on drug shortages
The Obama administration is wading into the drug-shortage fray. The president plans to sign an executive order that aims to alleviate scarcity of many important drugs, including key cancer therapies,
Obama plan hits pharma with rebates, pay-to-delay ban
President Obama's deficit-cutting plan hits pharma with a one-two-three punch. As he's advocated before, Obama would impose higher drug rebates on dual-eligibles, the low-income Medicare patients who
Obama deficit plan rolls back biotech marketing exclusivity to 7 years
The healthcare reform bill contained plenty of pain for the pharma world, which had to make some big concessions on drug costs for federal health programs. But it also contained some nuggets of pure
