Francis Collins

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Name: Francis Collins

First reported 3 hours ago - Updated 3 hours ago - 1 reports

Prominent Research Physician Points to Cures As Key to Holding down Medical Costs

/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Stephen L. DeFelice, M.D., Founder and Chairman of FIM, The Foundation for Innovation in Medicine, released a new video criticizing mainstream health care cost projections of Medicare, Medicaid and Obamacare, among others, because ... [Published FinanzNachrichten.de - 3 hours ago]

Entities: Physician, Invention, Elias Zerhouni

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Three Ideas For Better Health Care Of The Future, From Tech And Health Executives

You like your smartphone? Get ready for your smart toilet.00The conventional wisdom goes that health care is notoriously slow to adopt new technologies. The explosion in the past few years of sensor and app-filled health startups is starting to prove ... [Published Fast Company - May 22 2013]

Entities: Health Care, Susan Desmond-Hellmann, Genomics

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Chris Matthews

Blunt Cuts

Francis Collins discussed the sequester on Hardball with Chris Matthews. read more ... [Published The Daily Scan from GenomeWeb - May 21 2013]

Entities: Francis Collins, Chris Matthews, Sequester

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

National institutes of Health

Casey promotes health-care research as job source

U.S. Sen. Bob Casey says he doesn't have an answer to the national need for balance in creating health-care financing solutions, but he knows that National Institutes of Health funding helps put and keep jobs in the Philadelphia region."I focus on NIH ... [Published Individual.com - May 21 2013]

Entities: Bob Casey, National institutes of Health, David Sell, Francis Collins

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 2 reports

Who Benefits from Genetic Disease Testing? Possibly You.

As all theworld knows, actress Angelina Jolie had her breasts cut off as wayto prevent breast cancer that she was very likely to get some day.Jolie took action after a genetic test revealed that she carried avariant of the BRCA 1 gene that boosted her ... [Published REASON Online - May 20 2013]

Entities: Breast Cancer, Ovarian Cancer, BRCA1, Bioethics, Francis Collins

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

Medical Research Impacted by Sequester Cuts

Chris Matthews talks with Francis Collins the director of the National Institute of Health about how sequester cuts are hurting medical research. In particular programs for a universal flu vaccine, new cancer drugs, and dementia and Alzheimer drugs are ... [Published PharmaceuticalProcessing - May 20 2013]

Entities: Sequester, Francis Collins, National Institute of Health, Chris Matthews

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 19 2013 - 2 reports

Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc

Cystic Fibrosis: Charity and Industry Partner for Profit

To illustrate, consider the 'breakthrough' cystic fibrosis drug Kalydeco (ivacaftor), which is marketed by Vertex Pharmaceuticals.Vertex developed the drug with the help of a $75 million investment from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation -- as well as a hefty ... [Published MedPage Today - May 19 2013]

Entities: Drugs, Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc, Cystic Fibrosis

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

May 2013 Advocacy Update

NIH Funding NewsASH Submits Appropriations Testimony; NIH Director Warns Senate Committee That Situation Is DireOn May 15, the Senate Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Subcommittee held a hearing to discuss fiscal year (FY) 2014 funding for the National ... [Published American Society of Hematology - May 17 2013]

Entities: National institutes of Health, Francis Collins, Clinical trials

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

FDA and NIH/NCI Appropriations

The House of Representatives and Senate have both cleared a continuing resolution (CR) that will fund government agencies at approximately FY12 levels through the next six months, expiring on March 27, 2013. The bill, H J Res 117, was signed into law ... [Published Friends of Cancer Research - May 17 2013]

Entities: FDA Food & Drug Administration, National institutes of Health, Francis Collins, Margaret Hamburg, US Senate

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

New FASEB analysis documents impact of budget cuts on biomedical research

Bethesda, MD The (FASEB) released a new analysis of National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding trends highlighting the devastating impact of sequestration on the nation's capacity to support critical research. The FASEB analysis follows a May 15th Senate ... [Published EurekAlert! - May 17 2013]

Entities: National institutes of Health, Corroboration, Sequestration

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

NIH Saves Lives: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Calls On Congress To Restore Full NIH Funding

WASHINGTONThe U.S. Senate Subcommittee of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education today held a hearing for fiscal year 2014 budget request for NIH, during which Dr. Francis CollinsU.S. Sen. Patty Murray"Across the board cuts to critical programs ... [Published Bio-Medicine - May 16 2013]

Entities: National institutes of Health, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Patty Murray, Francis Collins, Cancer Research

First reported May 10 2013 - Updated May 10 2013 - 3 reports

Entitlements' unimpeded growth is boon to seniors

WASHINGTON - With Congress increasingly unable to resolve budget disputes, federal programs on automatic pilot are consuming ever larger amounts of government resources. The trend helps older US citizens, who accommodate the bulk of Social Security and ... [Published The Oregon Herald - May 10 2013]

Entities: Jim Kessler, Robert Blendon, Medicare, Social Security, Francis Collins

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Prominent Research Physician Points to Cures As... [Published FinanzNachrichten.de - 3 hours ago]
Three Ideas For Better Health Care Of The Futur... [Published Fast Company - May 22 2013]
Health Care Reform Update -- May 20th, 2013 [Published JD Supra - May 21 2013]
Blunt Cuts [Published The Daily Scan from GenomeWeb - May 21 2013]
Casey promotes health-care research as job source [Published Individual.com - May 21 2013]
Speakers offer perspectives about the role of g... [Published National Human Genome Research Institute - May 21 2013]
Who Benefits from Genetic Disease Testing? Poss... [Published REASON Online - May 20 2013]
Who Benefits from Genetic Disease Testing? Poss... [Published Hit & Run - May 20 2013]
Sen. Bob Casey on NIH funding and the problem o... [Published Philly.com - May 20 2013]
Chris Berman predicts the dark side of human br... [Published Prlog - May 20 2013]
Medical Research Impacted by Sequester Cuts [Published PharmaceuticalProcessing - May 20 2013]
Economic Prospects for the Long Run [Published The Big Picture Blog - May 19 2013]
Cystic Fibrosis: Charity and Industry Partner f... [Published MedPage Today - May 19 2013]
Charity's investment a prescription for profits... [Published Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - May 19 2013]
Bernanke: Economic Prospects for the Long Run [Published Economist's View - May 18 2013]
BERNANKE TO GRADUATES: ‘Success And Satisfactio... [Published Business Insider Australia - May 18 2013]
BERNANKE TO GRADUATES: 'Success And Satisfactio... [Published Clusterstock - May 18 2013]
ERIC ROSENTHAL REPORTS: How the Rally for Medic... [Published Oncology Times - May 18 2013]
May 2013 Advocacy Update [Published American Society of Hematology - May 17 2013]
FDA and NIH/NCI Appropriations [Published Friends of Cancer Research - May 17 2013]
The Personalized Medicine Coalition's Ninth Ann... [Published Reuters - May 17 2013]
New FASEB analysis documents impact of budget c... [Published EurekAlert! - May 17 2013]
Faces of Huntington's Disease Campaign highligh... [Published Kansas City Nursing News - May 16 2013]
Feinberg Hosts Inaugural Lurie Prize Ceremony [Published Northwestern University - May 16 2013]
As Deficit Shrinks, So Does Mandate for Sequester [Published The Fiscal Times - May 16 2013]
NIH Saves Lives: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Researc... [Published Bio-Medicine - May 16 2013]
NIH Saves Lives: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Researc... [Published Newswise - May 16 2013]
ASCO Members Take to Capitol Hill on Cancer Res... [Published American Society of Clinical Oncology - May 15 2013]
Mind Games [Published Christianity Magazine - May 15 2013]
Tweets Do Tell: Alzheimer’s Not a High Priority... [Published American Society On Aging - May 13 2013]

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Dr. Francis Collins, NIH Director [Published CSPAN - YouTube - Apr 11 2013]
Person of the Week: Braniac in Chief [Published ABC News Video: World News with Charles Gibson - Apr 06 2013]
Open for Questions: The BRAIN Initiative [Published The White House - YouTube - Apr 02 2013]
Francis Collins: We need better drugs -- now [Published TED Talks - YouTube - Mar 21 2013]
Biotech Sector at Risk from Fiscal Cliff Uncert... [Published FOX Business - Video - Nov 30 2012]