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Research!America
- May 15, 2012
- HHS Health Disparities Conference Coming This Fall
- Though Halloween is a long ways off, the Department of Health and Human Services has begun preparations for the 2012 Summit on the Science of Eliminating Health Disparities: Building a Healthier Society, Integrating Science, Policy and Practice. The event’s website, for instance, was launched this week; the organizers are also accepting abstracts for presentations, whether [...]
- May 10, 2012
- A Weekly Advocacy Message from Mary Woolley: Sequestration and Other Weighty Issues
- Dear Research Advocate,
Imagine if funding for health research agencies were cut by $3.6 billion. Some of the dire consequences of sequestration are outlined in our report released today, Health Research at the Breaking Point. We illustrate the potential impact to patients and the research enterprise of the across-the-board budget cuts on NIH, NSF, AHRQ, FDA, [...]
- May 8, 2012
- Event to Show the U.S. Can Still Be a Leader in Global Health, Even in Lean Economic Times
- The U.S. has long been a leader in global health research and development; Research!America’s survey of six states’ contributions to global health drives that point home.
One of the states is Georgia, where a considerable amount of global health R&D takes place. So it’s fitting that that three organizations would be teaming up to host a [...]
- May 8, 2012
- Research!America President and CEO Mary Woolley Commends House Subcommittee Markup of FDA User Fee Reauthorization Bill
- A statement by Research!America President and CEO Mary Woolley on the House Subcommittee Markup of the FDA User Fee Reauthorization Bill:
House subcommittee action on legislation to reauthorize user fees for prescription drugs and medical devices is a positive step toward improving patient access to new treatments and cures in a speedier manner. Providing additional resources [...]
- May 8, 2012
- Stay Tuned: Global Health Event from Houston to be Webcast Here!
- Research!America and several other organizations are hosting a day-long event to showcase the benefits of global health R&D in Texas, which is especially susceptible to certain neglected tropical diseases. The event is cosponsored by the Baylor College of Medicine, the National School of Tropical Medicine, the Sabin Vaccine Institute and Texas Children’s Hospital.
The event will [...]
- May 7, 2012
- Saving young lives through federally-supported research at D.C. Institutions
- By Billie Lou Short, MD
There is a dark cloud hovering over scientists in Washington, D.C. and across the country as future funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other federal health agencies remains uncertain. At the center of this storm is the terrible threat of across-the-board cuts to medical research in FY2013.
Researchers within [...]
- May 4, 2012
- A Weekly Advocacy Message from Mary Woolley: Is Research Worth Defending?
- Dear Research Advocate,
Defense funding would drop precipitously if the sequester takes place just nine months from now. The defense industry is going all-out to prevent this, with an all-hands-on-deck advocacy effort. While the health research community does not have the financial resources that the defense industry can marshal, we do have the power of numbers [...]
- May 3, 2012
- NCATS, Three Companies Announce Initiative to Explore New Treatments
- The National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences has announced the launch of a new pilot program with three industry partners that aims to develop new treatments for patients. The initiative, Discovering New Therapeutic Uses for Existing Models, will give researchers access to more than 20 compounds initially developed by AstraZeneca, Eli Lilly and Co., and [...]
- April 30, 2012
- More News on Health Care Spending
- A few days after The Atlantic passed along some charts that should give us great pause about the future of health care spending, The New York Times follows up with a report of its own that finds that health care spending has been flat as of late.
The story, by economic policy reporter Annie Lowrey, claims [...]
- April 27, 2012
- New report reveals why investing in global health research works
- With all eyes focused on federal deficit reduction, global health programs—including research and development for vaccines, drugs and diagnostics—are in danger. A new report, Saving lives and creating impact: why investing in global health research works, examines U.S. government funding of global health research and development (R&D) over the past decade and the results that [...]
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