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Report: Will Dr. Hahn crack under political pressure?

August 10, 2020 By Nancy Crotti

Many jobs have come with increased stress levels during the coronavirus pandemic, from ICU staff to Walmart greeters. Now officials who’ve been keeping tabs on FDA commissioner Dr. Stephen Hahn are wondering whether he can weather the strain of defending science while working for the Trump administration. Hahn has been squeezed between expressing his professional […]

Filed Under: Diagnostics, Featured, Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Pharmaceuticals Tagged With: Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, coronavirus, COVID-19, Donald Trump, FDA, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services

‘Nightmare bacteria’ swarming the country, CDC reports

April 4, 2018 By Sarah Faulkner

CDC

Last year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention identified more than 200 cases of bacteria that could resist nearly all antibiotics, the agency reported today. The CDC said that these “nightmare bacteria” are resistant to all or most antibiotics and are making their way through the country. In one assessment, a lab discovered that […]

Filed Under: Featured, Hospital Care, Pharmaceuticals Tagged With: Centers for Disease Control & Prevention

The company behind Narcan looks toward a treatment for fentanyl overdoses

March 13, 2018 By Sarah Faulkner

Opiant Pharmaceuticals

Despite growing attention from lawmakers and doctors, the opioid crisis is not slowing up in the U.S. A new report published last week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed that emergency room visits for opioid overdoses jumped 30% in 45 states from 2016 to 2017. The problem has morphed over the years […]

Filed Under: Clinical Trials, Drug-Device Combinations, Featured, Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Pain Management, Pharmaceuticals, Wall Street Beat Tagged With: Adapt Pharma, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, opiantpharmaceuticals

With weeks left in flu season, the FDA is already working on next year’s vaccine

February 16, 2018 By Sarah Faulkner

Flu Vaccine

There are still weeks left in this year’s flu season, according to the FDA, but the agency is already planning on how to better protect the nation’s public health next year. An initial report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention concluded that this year’s flu vaccine sported a 36% efficacy rate. Although that’s […]

Filed Under: Drug-Device Combinations, Featured, Pharmaceuticals, Regulatory/Compliance, Research & Development, Wall Street Beat Tagged With: Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, FDA, National Institutes of Health

CDC group tackles access to birth control for women in Puerto Rico

January 24, 2018 By Sarah Faulkner

CDC

Between May 2016 and August last year, a group organized by the CDC provided services to more than 21,000 women in Puerto Rico in an attempt to boost access to contraception, lower the rate of unintended pregnancy and lessen the number of Zika-related birth defects on the island. Last week, The Lancet Public Health examined the […]

Filed Under: Drug-Device Combinations, Featured, Pharmaceuticals, Women's Health Tagged With: Centers for Disease Control & Prevention

CDC: Overdose-related deaths in 2016 surpassed death count from peak of AIDS crisis

October 13, 2017 By Sarah Faulkner

CDC

More than 63,000 people died from a drug overdose last year – that’s more than the number of deaths caused by AIDS in 1995, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Between 2015 and 2016, the number of people who died from a drug overdose involving illicitly-manufactured fentanyl, a synthetic opioid, more […]

Filed Under: Featured, Policy Tagged With: Centers for Disease Control & Prevention

How the CDC’s recommendation against the nasal spray flu vaccine affected vaccine rates

October 4, 2017 By Sarah Faulkner

Nasal spray

Flu vaccine rates in kids dropped slightly during last year’s influenza season, according to a study from the Penn State College of Medicine, and it may be partly due to a recommendation from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention against the nasal spray vaccine, FluMist. When the nasal spray vaccine was first approved in […]

Filed Under: Drug-Device Combinations, Featured, Pharmaceuticals Tagged With: Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, Penn State College of Medicine

CDC campaign uses testimonials to fight prescription opioid epidemic

September 25, 2017 By Sarah Faulkner

CDC

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today launched a campaign featuring real-life stories of people recovering from opioid-use disorder and people whose loved ones have died due to a prescription opioid overdose. The campaign was designed to boost awareness among Americans about the risks linked with prescription opioids. 91 people die everyday in the U.S. […]

Filed Under: Featured, Pain Management, Pharmaceuticals, Wall Street Beat Tagged With: Centers for Disease Control & Prevention

Report: Pipeline of Alzheimer’s drugs ‘due for big victories’ in next 5 years

July 19, 2017 By Sarah Faulkner

There are twenty-seven Alzheimer’s drugs in late-stage clinical trials and eight candidates in Phase II programs that could launch in the next 5 years, according to an analysis presented this week at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference. “The Alzheimer’s disease pipeline, marred by decades of failures and underinvestment, is due for big victories,” UsAgainstAlzheimer’s co-founder […]

Filed Under: Featured, Neurological, Pharmaceuticals, Research & Development Tagged With: Centers for Disease Control & Prevention

CDC gives $12m to states to fight opioid epidemic

July 18, 2017 By Sarah Faulkner

CDC

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said today that it plans to award more than $12 million this week to 23 states and the District of Columbia to support their efforts in tackling the opioid overdose epidemic. The funding comes from the fiscal year 2017 omnibus appropriations bill that became law in May. States […]

Filed Under: Featured, Funding Roundup, Pain Management, Pharmaceuticals, Policy Tagged With: Centers for Disease Control & Prevention

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