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Author Archive: Tracy Cooley
Tracy serves as the Director of Events Communications and handles all communications for BIO’s events and emerging company policy issues. She loves blogging and podcasting on all things biotech and believes in the great potential of the industry, looking for every opportunity to spread the message far and wide. Nearly everyone in her family is a golfer, and as such, she has what many people have called a “natural” swing. Sometimes she even hits the ball. Tracy just finished her ninth marathon, and has nearly mastered the skill of one-foot-in-front-of-the-other (usually, sometimes the laces get in the way). The joy of her life is her five-year-old daughter Josephine.
Latest Posts
National Health Interview Survey: Adult Vaccination Rates Need Boost
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently released immunization coverage estimates from the 2012 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) for six vaccines routinely recommended for adults including pneumococcal, tetanus and Tdap, Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B, herpes zoster (shingles), and Human papillomavirus (HPV). These data indicate little overall improvement in vaccination coverage among adults from 2011 to 2012. Compared with 2011, modest increases occurred in three vaccines: Tdap, herpes zoster and HPV. However, vaccination Read More >
Doping Undermines the Mission of Biotechnology
The Olympic Games in Sochi captures the world’s attention as athletes compete to bring home gold. Our industry plays a key role in helping to maintain the integrity and honor of sports and competition by remaining vigilant in our anti-doping efforts. Doping undermines the integrity of our industry’s core mission of serving patients through drug discovery and development. The same medicines that can be used to help children with devastating genetic deficiencies and growth disorders, Read More >
FDA Week: For Biologics, A Name Isn’t Just A Name (Jim Greenwood op-ed)
What is in a name? Names help make medicinal products more easily distinguishable by doctors, pharmacists and patients. When you are talking about biologics, complex medicines that are manufactured using living organisms, and biosimilars, medicines that are similar to, but not the same as, innovator biologics, naming is a significant consideration. As a pathway for biosimilars approval is implemented, a clear priority should be to craft a naming convention that both contributes to patient safety Read More >
IPAB: Bad Medicine for Patient Care
The Independent Payment Advisory Board is bad medicine for patient care, deficit reduction and containing Medicare costs. This board, consisting of 15 bureaucrats appointed by the President, has been given the power to make decisions affecting patients’ quality of care, with almost no oversight and no means for challenging its decisions. IPAB must be repealed. There is widespread support among patient advocacy groups and members of Congress on both sides of the aisle for full Read More >
The Hill’s Congress Blog: Innovation in medicine isn’t optional – it’s imperative
Earlier this week, The Hill’s Congress Blog posted an op-ed penned by Andrew von Eschenbach and Paul Howard entitled, “Innovation in medicine isn’t optional – it’s imperative” highlighting the importance of encouraging innovation and preserving incentives for drug development. The authors recommend increased cooperation and collaboration between industry, academia, and regulators, in addition to recognition by the federal government that ‘a vibrant life-sciences industry will generate higher national productivity, lower total health care costs, and Read More >
