6 healthcare priorities highlighted in FDA’s budget proposal
FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb offered a window into the regulator's priorities for drug and device development as part of its budget proposal.
FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb offered a window into the regulator's priorities for drug and device development as part of its budget proposal.
Brenda Fitzgerald has resigned from the CDC amidst a Politico report that she invested not only in Japan Tobacco but also in Merck, Bayer, and Humana since taking office.
This eBook, in collaboration with Care Logistics, details how hospitals and health systems can facilitate more effective decision-making by operationalizing elevated awareness.
KHN analysis showed that more than a dozen former drug industry employees now have jobs on Capitol Hill — often on committees that handle health care policy.
A government shutdown will have far-reaching effects for public health, including the nation’s response to the current, difficult flu season. It will also disrupt some federally supported health services, experts said Friday.
The device failure was traced to a fault that prevents the LifeVest from charging its high-energy capacitors, according to the alert.
The text messaging kerfuffle at CMS reflects the changes in the Joint Commission's text messaging policy in the past few years.
A specialty drug is a class of prescription medications used to treat complex, chronic or rare medical conditions. Although this classification was originally intended to define the treatment of rare, also termed “orphan” diseases, affecting fewer than 200,000 people in the US, more recently, specialty drugs have emerged as the cornerstone of treatment for chronic and complex diseases such as cancer, autoimmune conditions, diabetes, hepatitis C, and HIV/AIDS.
2017 was a blockbuster year for drug approvals, with 46 new molecular entities and some first-of-their-kind gene therapies given the green light. But how much will the new drugs add to the medical armamentarium? And at what cost?
One hundred patients from Cone Health's Center for Women’s Healthcare will have the option to sign up for the remote monitoring pilot with Babyscripts which will begin in February 2018.
3D printing has the potential to manufacture drugs, fabricate skin grafts for burn victims and even provide replacement organs, according to FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb.
Bradley Thompson of the law firm Epstein Becker Green expressed disappointment with portions of the long-anticipated clinical decision support draft guidance from the FDA.
Gabby Everett, the site director for BioLabs Pegasus Park, offered a tour of the space and shared some examples of why early-stage life science companies should choose North Texas.
It turns out the tax bills in the House and Senate also aim to reshape healthcare. Here are five ways these bills are trying to achieve that.
As HHS secretary, Alex Azar would oversee a trillion-dollar budget, over 90,000 employees, and a healthcare system that is ground-zero for heated bipartisan politics. So where does Trump’s new nominee stand on the major issues?
Medicare officials requested comments late Thursday on how to use discounts and rebates to help decrease what enrollees pay for prescriptions.
Advanced neuroprosthetics, with the potential to restore touch, movement, and sight, are not going to happen this year – or five years from now – but they are coming.
The final draft of the National Defense Authorization Act would give the Pentagon authority to decide when unapproved drugs and devices, referred to as agents of war in the legislation, could be used on military personnel in an emergency. This proposal is a bad idea and should be dropped.