Cathy Dombrowski, Gaining the expertise and infrastructure needed to assess products of the future – such as biosimilars and those based on stem cells and nanotechnology – is the goal of a $25 million scientific modernization effort proposed in the fiscal 2011 FDA budget. The Advancing Regulatory Science Initiative is a cross-center program whose ultimate…
Cathy Dombrowski, Gaining the expertise and infrastructure needed to assess products of the future – such as biosimilars and those based on stem cells and nanotechnology – is the goal of a $25 million scientific modernization effort proposed in the fiscal 2011 FDA budget. The Advancing Regulatory Science Initiative is a cross-center program whose ultimate…
By ALAN FRAM, WASHINGTON – Leading lawmakers hoping to revive President Barack Obama‘s stalled health care overhaul have started writing a compromise bill, but it’s unclear when the legislation will be ready for votes, a top House Democrat said Tuesday. The measure would change the massive Senate-approved health bill to what bargainers from the White…
By ALAN FRAM, WASHINGTON – Leading lawmakers hoping to revive President Barack Obama‘s stalled health care overhaul have started writing a compromise bill, but it’s unclear when the legislation will be ready for votes, a top House Democrat said Tuesday. The measure would change the massive Senate-approved health bill to what bargainers from the White…
By John Whitesides, The sweeping healthcare overhaul pushed by President Barack Obama faces dire prospects in the U.S. Congress, but Democrats scrambling for a new approach still hope to salvage at least a scaled-back plan. Every option under discussion among stunned Democrats presents its own obstacles and drawbacks, but many worry the failure to pass…
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: So how do you do it now? This strategy that a lot of people have talked about getting the House to pass the Senate bill. Speaker Pelosi yesterday seemed to say that this was kind of a non-starter. PRESIDENT OBAMA: Well, here’s , here’s one thing I know and I just want to…
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: So how do you do it now? This strategy that a lot of people have talked about getting the House to pass the Senate bill. Speaker Pelosi yesterday seemed to say that this was kind of a non-starter. PRESIDENT OBAMA: Well, here’s , here’s one thing I know and I just want to…
By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN and ROBERT PEAR, The White House and Democratic Congressional leaders, scrambling for a backup plan to rescue their health care legislation if Republicans win the special election in Massachusetts on Tuesday, have begun laying the groundwork to ask House Democrats to approve the Senate version of the bill and send it directly…
By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN and ROBERT PEAR, The White House and Democratic Congressional leaders, scrambling for a backup plan to rescue their health care legislation if Republicans win the special election in Massachusetts on Tuesday, have begun laying the groundwork to ask House Democrats to approve the Senate version of the bill and send it directly…
By Ezra Klein, So, Speaker Pelosi, Leader Hoyer, Congressman Clyburn, Chairman Miller, Chairman Rangel, Chairman Waxman, Leader Reid, Senator Durbin, Chairman Baucus, Chairman Dodd, Chairman Harkin, Rahm Emanuel, Phil Schiliro, Nancy-Ann DeParle, and President Obama walk into a room… Wait, have you heard this one before? Actually, you probably haven’t. Yesterday’s health-care meeting ran from…
