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21st Century Cures Update: Ebola Hearing October 16, FDA's LDT Draft Guidance
This past July we wrote about the 21st Century Cures initiative and its efforts to bridge the gap between medical advances and the regulatory policies that govern them. The initiative, a bipartisan collaboration between Rep. Fred Upton (R–MI), chair of the Energy and Commerce Committee, and Representative Diana DeGette (D–CO), one of the panel's senior Democrats, aims to examine the “full arc” of the innovation process to get new treatments and cures to patients more quickly and streamline the drug and device development process. Some of the initiative’s recent activity is summarized below. Antibiotic resistance ...
Source: Policy and Medicine - October 10, 2014 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan Source Type: blogs

TWiV 494: Ebola Makona is the opposite of hakuna matata
Vincent, Kathy, and Alan review the ongoing outbreak of Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the finding that mutations identified in the 2015 West African epidemic do not alter pathogenesis in animals. <span data-mce-type=”bookmark” style=”display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;” class=”mce_SELRES_start”></span>&lt;span data-mce-type=”bookmark” style=”display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: […]
Source: virology blog - May 20, 2018 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology Democratic Republic of the Congo ebolavirus Makona Mayingo pathogenesis transmission vaccine viral virology Ebola virus virulence viruses Source Type: blogs

2019 Health Law Professors Conference
Conclusion
Source: blog.bioethics.net - March 27, 2019 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs

TWiV 939: From lizards to Lassa with Tom Monath
Tom Monath joins TWiV to discuss his wide-ranging career that includes medicine, field work and vaccine development while working for the US government, the US military, and multiple biotechnology companies. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit Guest: Tom Monath Click arrow to playDownload TWiV 939 (73 MB .mp3, 121 min)Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email […]
Source: virology blog - September 25, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology Acambis COVID-19 dengue vaccine ebola virus Lassa virus NewLink Genetics vaccine platform viral viruses yellow fever virus Source Type: blogs