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☆ Congress Must Act to Eliminate Hepatitis C - The New York Times
  + stars: | 2023-11-28 | by ( Francis Collins | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
A little over a decade ago, I watched my brother in-law Rick Boterf die of complications from infection with the hepatitis C virus that took his health, his vibrant energy and ultimately his life. But then he experienced the slow onset of signs of liver failure, followed by an excruciating five years on the liver transplant list. Ultimately, Rick died in his sleep, a heartbreaking ending for a fine man who had suffered terribly at the hands of this destructive virus. It was only two years later, in October 2014, that medical science provided a cure for hepatitis C infection. And to a significant extent, that hope was justified: These medications have cured about a million people in the United States.
Persons: Rick Boterf, Rick Organizations: National Institutes of Health Locations: Florida, United States
☆ Hepatitis C cure is not reaching overwhelming majority of patients due to financial barriers
  + stars: | 2023-06-29 | by ( Spencer Kimball | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +2 min
Hepatitis C is often referred to as the silent killer because the initial infection has few to no symptoms. Overtime, however, the virus can cause liver damage, liver cancer, liver failure and ultimately death. These pills, taken once a day for eight to 12 weeks, cure more than 95% of hepatitis C cases. Hepatitis C contributed to the deaths of nearly 15,000 people in 2020, according to the CDC. The Biden administration has asked Congress to approve $11 billion in funding for a national program to eliminate hepatitis C by 2030.
Persons: Dr, Jonathan Mermin, Biden, Francis Collins Organizations: Gilead Sciences, U.S ., Centers for Disease Control, Health, CDC, White Locations: U.S
☆ Biden taps Bertagnolli to lead National Institutes of Health
  + stars: | 2023-05-15 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +1 min
WASHINGTON, May 15 (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden will appoint Monica Bertagnolli, director of the National Cancer Institute, to lead the National Institutes of Health, the White House said on Monday. Bertagnolli will become the second woman to serve as a permanent director of the NIH after a yearlong search to find a permanent replacement for the agency's long-serving leader, Francis Collins. "Dr. Bertagnolli is a world-class physician-scientist whose vision and leadership will ensure NIH continues to be an engine of innovation to improve the health of the American people," Biden said in a statement. Bertagnolli was appointed in October to head the National Cancer Institute, which is a part of NIH, and also served as head of surgical oncology at the Dana-Farber Brigham Cancer Center, one of the nation's top cancer research facilities. Lawrence Tabak has been performing the director duties since December of that year after previously holding the roles of principal deputy director and deputy ethics counselor since 2010 at NIH.
☆ Biden picks cancer surgeon Monica Bertagnolli to be next NIH director
  + stars: | 2023-05-15 | by ( Maegan Vazquez Donald Judd | Maegan Vazquez | Donald Judd | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +2 min
CNN —President Joe Biden will nominate Dr. Monica Bertagnolli, who currently leads the National Cancer Institute, to be the next director of the National Institutes of Health, the White House announced on Monday. Biden called Bertagnolli “a world-class physician-scientist whose vision and leadership will ensure NIH continues to be an engine of innovation to improve the health of the American people,” in a statement Monday. She would lead the country’s medical research agency, overseeing 27 research institutes and centers focused on different areas of medical research, such as cancer, the human genome, as well as allergy and infectious diseases. The nomination to lead NIH marks a fast ascent within the Biden administration for Bertagnolli. In this August 2022 photo, Monica Bertagnolli, newly appointed director of the National Cancer Institute, stands for recognition during remarks by President Joe Biden.
☆ Biden to nominate cancer surgeon Monica Bertagnolli to lead National Institutes of Health
  + stars: | 2023-05-15 | by ( Spencer Kimball | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +1 min
Dr. Monica Bertagnolli speaks during a visit from first lady Jill Biden to the University of California San Francisco Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center in San Francisco, Oct. 7, 2022. President Joe Biden will nominate Dr. Monica Bertagnolli, a cancer surgeon, to lead the National Institutes of Health, the White House announced Monday. Bertagnolli is currently the director of the National Cancer Institute and is the first woman to lead the organization. The NIH, which has a budget of about $45 billion, funds medical research across the U.S. and around the world. The agency played a pivotal role in developing the messenger RNA technology that underlies the Covid-19 vaccine made by Moderna.
☆ Dr. Fauci Looks Back: ‘Something Clearly Went Wrong’
  + stars: | 2023-04-24 | by ( David Wallace-Wells | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +55 min
Dr. Fauci Looks Back: ‘Something Clearly Went Wrong’ In his most extensive interview yet, Anthony Fauci wrestles with the hard lessons of the pandemic — and the decisions that will define his legacy. But when people say, “Fauci shut down the economy” — it wasn’t Fauci. But somehow or other, the general public didn’t get that feeling that the vulnerable are really, really heavily weighted toward the elderly. We also had a public-health system that we thought was really, really good. But it was really, really antiquated.
☆ House GOP asks Fauci and dozens of health officials to testify in investigation into Covid origins
  + stars: | 2023-02-14 | by ( Spencer Kimball | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +4 min
House Republicans have asked former White House chief medical advisor Dr. Anthony to testify before Congress as they launch a new investigation into the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic. "If there are oversight hearings I absolutely will cooperate fully and testify before the Congress," Fauci told reporters during his final briefing at the White House. He stepped down from his posts at the White House and at the helm of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in December. EcoHealth Alliance provided funding, which originated at NIH, to the Wuhan Institute of Virology to study coronaviruses. About $600,000 of that money went directly to the Wuhan Institute of Virology to study the threat posed by bat coronaviruses.
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