US panel proposes joint ‘pathogens initiative’

DIET AND NUTRITION: White House Proposes Healthy Food Financing Initiative

Planning for US Precision Medicine Initiative underway.

While continuing to defend his besieged health-care reform law against lawsuits and repeal threats, US President Barack Obama is championing a new health initiative. This one also has a bold goal: to radically change the medical treatment patients receive in the USA. “I want the country that eliminated polio and mapped the human genome to lead a new era of medicine—one that delivers the right t...

Meeting the FDA’s Initiative for Protecting the US Drug Supply†

Advancing Epidemic Prediction and Forecasting: A New US Government Initiative

Introduction The National Science and Technology Council, within the Executive Office of the President, established the Pandemic Prediction and Forecasting Science and Technology (PPFST) Working Group in 2013. The PPFST Working Group supports the US Predict the Next Pandemic Initiative, and serves as a forum to accelerate the development of federal infectious disease outbreak prediction and for...

AJRR: Becoming a National US Joint Registry.