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Tag Archives: health
A Manhattan Project for Alzheimer’s Disease
Earlier this month, at the Alzheimer’s Disease Summit in New York City, BIO‘s President & CEO Jim Greenwood highlighted the need for our nation to think bigger about how we approach Alzheimer’s Disease. Greenwood called for a “Manhattan Project” to rally the country around addressing this growing health challenge. He also noted that addressing Alzheimer’s Disease is the type of issue that could bring together elected officials on both sides of the aisle. As part Read More >
Sequester Threatens FDA Mission
One aspect of sequestration isn’t doing anything to reduce the deficit, but could be delaying patient access to new drugs and medical devices, according to the FDA’s Janet Woodcock at a House subcommittee hearing on Friday. The FDA is being denied access to some of the user fees paid by the drug and device industries, which are intended to fund FDA’s review and oversight programs and ensure timely patient access to new and effective treatments. Read More >
New Cancer Treatments Seek to Give the Immune System Superpowers
Melanoma is scary. It is aggressive, spreads quickly to far-away organs with the stealth and cunning of the most adept villain, and it is increasingly striking young people-it is now the most common form of cancer diagnosed in women 25-29. But the “good guys” are fighting back with increasing success. As the CEO of the Melanoma Research Alliance (MRA), a patient-focused, science-based organization dedicated to fighting this deadly skin cancer, I see signs every day Read More >
‘Life According to Sam’ About Hope and Medical Discovery
HBO is currently airing a documentary about a 13 year old boy named Sam Berns, who is coping with a cruel and rare genetic disease, known as progeria, which ages and weakens its young victims. If you haven’t seen it, you might expect “Life According to Sam” to be a heartbreaking tale of a family’s struggles to cope with something that is out of their control. It is that, but it’s also so much more. Read More >
RNAi: From Medicine to Agriculture
At BIO, our member companies are involved in the research and development of innovative healthcare, agricultural, industrial and environmental biotechnology products. They are working everyday to improve the human condition by curing the sick, feeding the hungry, and developing cleaner, safer and healthier sources of energy. And they are accomplishing this by using innovative biotechnology tools, such as RNA interference, or RNAi, in both basic research and product development. RNAi is a biological process, occurring Read More >
