Volume 400, Issue 10365
19 November 2022
WORLD REPORT An independent review made several recommendations for improving the public health agency. Susan Jaffe reports from Washington, DC.
WORLD REPORT An independent review made several recommendations for improving the public health agency. Susan Jaffe reports from Washington, DC.
WORLD REPORT Both Republican and Democrat legislators have called for changes following a shortage of breastmilk substitute. Susan Jaffe reports from Washington, DC..
The leading US producer of infant formula resumed partial operations on June 4 following a 4-month shutdown, but it may take several more weeks before supplies return to normal, along with the shortage-induced panic and desperation of American parents. When the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) can regain trust in its ability to police the nation’s food manufacturers is another matter.
The agency’s failure to respond quickly to health hazards at the Abbott Nutrition facility in Sturgis, MI, that released potentially contaminated formula across the country has provoked rare bipartisan outrage in Congress and equally rare apologies from the manufacturer. The shutdown and resulting shortage have also prompted calls for major changes in the FDA’s food safety division, along with questions about why one supplier dominates the market. [Continued here.]
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Volume 392, Number 10157
27 October 2018
WORLD REPORT A plan to expand immigrant children detention centres requires money from medical research and
health programmes. Susan Jaffe, The Lancet‘s Washington correspondent, reports.
Susan Jaffe | Washington Correspondent for The Lancet | 14 December 2016
The 21st Century Cures Act that President Barack Obama signed into law this week dedicates – but doesn‘t guarantee – billions of dollars to accelerating the discovery of new drugs and medical devices and getting them to patents more quickly, as well as supporting opioid addiction treatment and reforms in mental health care.
The overwhelming support for the law marks a stark contrast from the Affordable Care Act, another landmark health reform bill Obama signed in the second year of his presidency. Republicans promise to repeal it as soon as the new Congress convenes next month and Donald Trump is sworn in as president. But before the promised elimination of the ACA, Congress took nearly $5 billion from its Prevention and Public Health Fund to pay for most of the law.[Continued here.]
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