STAT+: Here’s how Biden can address high drug prices, without help from Congress
WASHINGTON — If President Biden wants major pharmaceutical industry reforms, he may have to achieve…
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Pelosi working to gather support for last-minute, last-ditch drug pricing policy
WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office is working to gather support for a last-ditch…
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STAT+: Biden abandons his push to lower drug prices
WASHINGTON — The White House is abandoning every single policy idea aimed at lowering prescription…
STAT+: Democratic senators raise concerns with potential FDA pick
WASHINGTON — Sens. Joe Manchin and Richard Blumenthal have concerns with President Biden’s rumored nominee…
STAT+: Is Robert Califf a savvy choice to helm the FDA — again?
WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration has been without a permanent leader for 10…
STAT+: In its search for a new FDA commissioner, the White House is relying on insiders for advice
WASHINGTON — Ten months into his tenure, President Biden has yet to nominate anyone to…
STAT+: Here’s who might replace Francis Collins as NIH director
WASHINGTON — Almost as soon as Francis Collins announced that he’ll soon step down as…
Biden moves to ramp up at-home Covid-19 testing
The White House announced on Wednesday a $1 billion purchase of at-home rapid tests for…
NIH Director Francis Collins to step down
WASHINGTON — Francis Collins, the pioneering genetics researcher and longtime director of the National Institutes…
STAT+: Biden administration favors insurers over doctors in controversial new surprise billing regulations
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration on Thursday sided with insurers over physicians and other health…
The government’s Covid-19 response will continue in a shutdown, but health agencies will face major staff shortages
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Biden’s chaotic messaging on Covid-19 boosters is pitting the White House against the government’s scientific advisers
WASHINGTON — The White House’s chaotic, contradictory messaging on Covid-19 vaccine booster shots has given…
Scott Gottlieb: Trump’s shadow FDA commissioner during Covid-19?
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New Biden plan to lower drug prices drawn from familiar Democratic playbook
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration on Thursday unveiled a long-awaited plan to lower prescription drug…
Congress is ready to dig into drug prices
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The White House wants $65 billion for an Apollo-style pandemic preparedness program
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration on Friday unveiled a sweeping new biosecurity plan, outlining a…
Biden pledged to ‘follow the science.’ But experts say he’s sometimes fallen short
WASHINGTON — It’s a mantra that President Biden has repeated since the early days of…
STAT+: Biden health department hires four outside firms to audit Covid-19 grants to hospitals
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration has hired several separate outside contractors to police the billions…
In a new policy proposal, Biden presses Congress to let Medicare negotiate drug prices
President Biden on Thursday took his most concrete action to date on prescription drug prices,…
STAT+: As White House mulls FDA commissioner job, a sign of industry backing for Woodcock surfaces
Shortly after the Biden administration took office, a letter-writing campaign erupted over who should be…
Billions in new research funding sparks a lobbying frenzy among patient advocates
WASHINGTON — President Biden’s vision for an ambitious new government research center is never quite…
Biden wants $100 rewards for those who get vaccinated against Covid-19 — but there’s little he can do to make it happen
WASHINGTON – President Biden wants states to give $100 to people who get vaccinated against…
STAT+: For the first time ever, Lander’s White House science office will have an entire wing dedicated to health
WASHINGTON — Eric Lander, the renowned genomics researcher, has kept a low profile in his…
CDC to recommend masks indoors even for some vaccinated against Covid-19
Federal health officials will recommend Tuesday that even people who’ve had their Covid-19 shots wear…
What happened to the FDA’s toughest regulator?
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Biden wants to bolster the pharma supply chain. A major generic plant closing may make that harder
If you think bolstering the pharmaceutical supply chain in the U.S. is a national priority,…
STAT+: San Francisco, Austin, or Raleigh? White House contemplates an out-of-D.C. address for new biomedical research agency
WASHINGTON — The White House isn’t worried about Congress underfunding the new biomedical research agency…
STAT+: Pharma CEOs, lobbyists showered Democrat with cash after his attempt to torpedo Pelosi’s drug pricing bill
WASHINGTON — The very next day after Rep. Scott Peters attempted to torpedo House Speaker…
STAT+: Advocates urge Biden to name patent office director that could transform drug pricing
As the White House readies to name a new head of the U.S. Patent &…
NIH’s Francis Collins: For Biden’s new research agency to succeed, it should prepare for some projects to fail
WASHINGTON — Francis Collins is ready for the National Institutes of Health to fail spectacularly….
STAT+: The ins and outs of the rare, controversial way Medicare might pay for Biogen’s new Alzheimer’s drug
WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration last month foisted a nearly impossible decision on…
STAT+: Senate Democrats eye drug pricing policies to fund $3.5 trillion budget deal
WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats intend to include several drug pricing policies in their $3.5 trillion…
Biden to nominate Atul Gawande for global health position
President Biden will nominate noted surgeon and writer Atul Gawande for a global health position…
Biden to nominate West Virginia’s Rahul Gupta as drug czar
WASHINGTON — President Biden will nominate Rahul Gupta, a March of Dimes executive and former…
Biden wants a drug pricing plan in 45 days. Who’s going to write it?
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When and how will we know if we need Covid-19 booster shots?
There’s a lot we don’t yet know about the data behind Pfizer and BioNTech’s renewed…
STAT+: Medicare starts process that could limit access to Biogen’s new Alzheimer’s drug
WASHINGTON — Federal officials on Monday announced the agency will start a process that could…
STAT+: In a sweeping executive order, Biden endorses importing drugs from Canada and orders a bigger drug pricing plan by late August
WASHINGTON — President Biden on Friday will take aim at the pharmaceutical industry by ordering…
Are pharma mergers bad for biotech?
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Operation Warp Speed — now, the ‘CAG’— is here to stay
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Perna set to retire from Warp Speed later this summer
WASHINGTON — Gus Perna, the four-star Army general responsible for coordinating the U.S. coronavirus vaccine…
Key Democrats slam FDA for failing to crack down on Juul and other e-cigarette makers
WASHINGTON — Congressional Democrats openly pressured acting Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Janet Woodcock to…
The lonely quest to create a commission to investigate Covid-19
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STAT+: Former FDA chief Hahn defends his jump to Flagship Pioneering, the firm behind Moderna
When biotech investor Flagship Pioneering announced that it had hired former Food and Drug Administration…
STAT+: Biden administration moves to axe Trump 340B rule targeting community clinics
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration on Tuesday moved to axe a Trump-era policy that would…
More than two-thirds of Congress cashed a pharma campaign check in 2020, new STAT analysis shows
WASHINGTON — Seventy-two senators and 302 members of the House of Representatives cashed a check…
Pharma funded more than 2,400 state lawmaker campaigns in 2020, new STAT analysis finds
WASHINGTON — State lawmakers in Oregon have tried to lower high drug prices from nearly…
STAT+: Abandoned Trump order on the bioeconomy highlights a path forward for Biden — but with mixed reviews
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration came remarkably close to shoring up the scattershot way the…
STAT+: Telehealth companies are fueling a lobbying frenzy to protect their Covid boom
WASHINGTON — Telehealth companies, flush with cash after the Covid-19 pandemic spiked both demand and…
White House aims to give 70% of American adults at least one vaccine dose by July 4
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration on Tuesday set a new goal for the ongoing U.S….