In what was more of a campaign speech accompanied by frequent chants of “four more years,” U.S. President Joe Biden loaded the annual State of the Union address March 7 with what sounded like campaign promises for a second term. Among those promises were calls to Congress to expand the prescription drug price provisions of the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act.
In his latest effort to boost the U.S. manufacturing base, President Joe Biden is invoking the Defense Production Act (DPA) to expand the domestic production capabilities for essential medicines, medical countermeasures (MCMs) and their critical inputs.
With drug shortages becoming a fact of life, U.S. President Joe Biden said he plans to issue a presidential determination to broaden the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) authorities under the Defense Production Act to enable investment in the domestic manufacturing of essential medicines, medical countermeasures and other critical inputs that the president deems essential to the national defense.
As a follow-up to the Biden administration’s executive order for artificial intelligence (AI), the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has promulgated a memorandum directing federal government agency use of AI.
As a follow-up to the Biden administration’s executive order for artificial intelligence (AI), the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has promulgated a memorandum directing federal government agency use of AI.
The Biden administration has issued an executive order (EO) for artificial intelligence (AI), which addresses not only national security considerations, but public health considerations as well. One of the features of the EO is that any company developing AI for public health and safety must notify the federal government when training a foundation AI algorithm, which suggests that AI that is regulated by the U.S. FDA will now be subject to additional government scrutiny in the premarket phase.
The Biden administration has issued an executive order (EO) for artificial intelligence (AI), which addresses not only national security considerations, but public health considerations as well.
A huge sigh of relief from the life sciences industry greeted U.S. President Joe Biden’s executive order that’s intended to shore up domestic manufacturing of products developed with taxpayer support. “It’s like the Titanic, [but] we just missed the iceberg,” Joseph Allen, executive director of the Bayh-Dole Coalition, told BioWorld. The fear for the past few years has been that the administration would follow in the wake of the Department of Energy, which broadly expanded the current Bayh-Dole U.S. manufacturing preference.
A huge sigh of relief from the life sciences industry greeted U.S. President Joe Biden’s executive order that’s intended to shore up domestic manufacturing of products developed with taxpayer support. “It’s like the Titanic, [but] we just missed the iceberg,” Joseph Allen, executive director of the Bayh-Dole Coalition, told BioWorld. The fear for the past few years has been that the administration would follow in the wake of the Department of Energy, which broadly expanded the current Bayh-Dole U.S. manufacturing preference.
The Biden administration has released a blueprint for an artificial intelligence bill of rights, which is accompanied by an acknowledgement that these algorithms can be crucial in guiding treatment of cancer patients.