April 4, 2022 – The fiscal year (FY) 2023 budget proposed by President Joe Biden last week emphasizes fiscal restraint more than new, big spending programs, but it does ask for increased funding for pandemic preparedness, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and projects such as the Cancer Moonshot and the Advanced Research Projects Agency […]
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Feb. 21, 2022 – During President Joe Biden’s first year in office, his administration’s health policy team has faltered, made missteps and miscalculations on COVID-19 decisions and communication, and took more than a year to secure a permanent Food and Drug Administration Commissioner (Robert Califf, M.D., was confirmed to take the helm on Feb. 15). […]
Read more April 12, 2021 – President Joe Biden signaled his administration’s public health priorities in an outline of the fiscal year 2022 (FY 22) budget released last week. These proposed investments include substantial increases in funding for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), creation of […]
Read more Sept. 14, 2020 – As the COVID-19 pandemic persists and the race for a vaccine to prevent contracting the virus heats up, there is a great deal of misinformation circulating about treatments and the majority of Americans are concerned that political pressure from the Trump administration will lead the Food and Drug Administration to approve […]
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July 31, 2017 — Guest commentary by Michael Parenti America’s opioid crisis is a major issue and the subject of ongoing debate. But before we can begin to tackle this problem, we need to take a look at the policy decisions that got us here. War has a way of embedding itself within the public consciousness. […]
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