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Innovative Medicines Initiative Provides 246 Million Euros To Support Public-private Research Cooperation For The Faster Development Of Innovative Med
Today, fifteen new research projects aimed at bringing innovative medicines to market faster have been selected to receive 246 million Euros from the European Commission and the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA), of which the Irish Pharmaceutical Healthcare Association (IPHA) is a member. The projects will foster understanding of health issues such as diabetes, pain, severe asthma and psychiatric disorders while increasing medicine safety. They will also help improve the training of researchers and clinicians involved in medicines development. The projects were chosen following the first call for proposals launched within the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI), a public-private partnership - so called Joint Technology Initiative - between the European Commission and the pharmaceutical industry.

Newly Released Nixon Tapes Reveal Reaction To Roe V. Wade
President Richard Nixon, who was in office when the Supreme Court issued its 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade, in secret recordings from January and February of that year discussed his views on abortion with an aide, the New York Times reports. The comments were among more than 150 hours of tape and 30,000 pages of documents made public Tuesday by the National Archives" Nixon Presidential Library. The tapes were recorded by secret microphones in the White House"s Oval Office. Nixon in the tapes expressed ambivalence over the decision, as well as concern that increased access to abortion leads to "permissiveness" and that "it breaks the family." Nixon also said that he believed there was a need for abortion in some cases, including interracial pregnancies and rape. He said, "There are times when an abortion is necessary. I know that." He added, "When you have a black and a white. Or a rape" (Savage, New York Times, 6/24).Broadcast CoverageNPR"s "All Things Considered" on Tuesday reported on Nixon"s abortion comments and political reaction to Roe at the time of the decision (Totenberg, "All Things Considered," NPR, 6/23).
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House Recesses, Democrats Reflect On Accomplishments And What's Ahead

House Democrats celebrated late last week the passage of a health reform bill out of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, but they still face a lot of work when they return in September, Roll Call reports. "Democrats managed to reach landmark agreements between Blue Dogs and liberals on the Energy and Commerce Committee at an epic markup last week, but it took weeks of almost round-the-clock negotiating with House leaders and the White House ò€¦ But the splits that emerged in the Energy and Commerce Committee remain far from resolved. Everything from the makeup of a new public insurance option to the cost of the bill to the tax hikes to pay for it continue to divide Democrats." "More liberal members of the House are still fuming over negotiations - and what they perceive to be leadership rolling-over for the Blue Dog Democrats - held last week with more conservative members of the House. Negotiations in the meantime with liberal members yielded "backing for amendments putting the squeeze on insurance and drug companies, along with other cost-cutting provisions, with any savings going to restore subsidies for low- and middle-income Americans to buy insurance." The subsidies were shrunk by the Blue Dog deal, liberals say, fueling their anger (Dennis, 8/3). The Wall Street Journal reports: "Moderate Democrats won an amendment widening the number of small businesses exempted from a mandate to provide coverage to workers, among other things. Liberal Democrats won a provision allowing the government to negotiate directly with pharmaceutical companies under Medicare, a change from current law. ò€¦ Democratic lawmakers had hoped that passing bills out of each chamber by August would set the stage for final action after Labor Day. But House Democratic leaders found it difficult to corral rank-and-file lawmakers" (Hitt and Adamy, 8/3). The Associated Press: ""We passed a bill out that shows that we can bring together conservative, moderate and progressive Democrats," Energy and Commerce Chairman Henry Waxman, D-Calif., said after the vote. "We"re going to need that coalition on the House floor, and I feel confident that we"ll pass a health care reform bill in the House when we come back in September." Five Democrats and all committee Republicans opposed the bill" (Werner, 8/1). This information was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with kind permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report, search the archives and sign up for email delivery at kaiserhealthnews.org. © Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. All rights reserved.


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