We look forward to that. Senator murray and i will each have an Opening Statement and then introduce our panel of witnesses. After, senators will have five minutes of questions. In 2007 doug oliver, who is in the front row i believe, a Computer Programmer began to have trouble, had his drivers license taken away and declared legally blind. It was a rare form of macular degeneration. He moved to nashville where they told him while there were no cures, he could Search Online for a trial. He found a regenerative Clinical Trial in florida, where doctors took cells out of the bone marrow in his hip, and then injected these into his eye. Three days later he began to see. His eye sight eventually improved enough to get his drivers license back and that he became an effective advocate for more support for Regenerative Medicine done the proper way, which we included in the 21st century cures act. Earlier this year he gave me the cane he used when he was blind, said i dont need it anymore. So i
So doctor, pharmaceutical Development Today frequently involves what is called shooting in the dark, making key decisions can with very limited data. For example, decisions including indication selection, dosage end points and Inclusion Exclusion criteria. The data that informs such decisions lies in inaccessible silence at least to most stake holders. It includes to hire longer time lines. Now the fda already has much of this data, this otherwise siloed information. So my question for you is has the fda taken any steps in ago ri gaiting to improve the process and if not would the fda be willing to analyze the data to accelerate and derisk . I appreciate it. The bottom line is there are situations. Well be taking steps to make it improve it where they can be ago gri ka there are situations we provide from data we use to make decisions particularly around drug safety. The information is confidential. We are looking at how to make it public without because my belief is if we are making r
With the best overall entry. Deadline is january 18. Contest details on our website studentcamp. Org. Next, fda commissioner Scott Gottlieb and Francis Collins testify on medical innovations. They appeared before the Senate Health innovation and Pensions Committee on issues including the Opioid Epidemic, rare disease funding and research into treating addicts nonmedically. This is an hour and 50 minutes. Good morning, the Senate Committee on health and education will come to attention and order. Another bipartisan hearing which is what most of our hearings are which is what bernie and i created on the witnesses. I would say every member of this committee would probably agree on the subject in witnesses today. This is a hearing entitled implementation of the 21st century cures. Progress and the path forward for medical innovation, we will hear from Francis Collins, and doctor Scott Gottlieb, commissioner of food and drugs. We all have as i mentioned a hearing next wednesday on another i
The National Institute of health and dr. Scott gottlieb, the commissioner of food and drug. Well have as i mentioned to senator murphy, well have a hearing next wednesday on another important part of the cures act which was the first reorganization of our Mental Health laws in a decade which senator cassidy and senator murphy played a major role in. Senator murray and i will have each an Opening Statement then well introduce our panel of witnesses. Our witnesses will have five minutes of questions. In 2007 doug oliver who is in the front row, i believe, a Computer Programmer began to have trouble seeing and after a near accident had his drivers license taken away and was declared legally behind. The culprit was a rare form of macular degeneration. Doug moved to nashville where his doctor told him while there were no cures, doug could Search Online for a Clinical Trial. Doug found a rejen tiff medicine Clinical Trial in florida where doctors took cells out of the bone marrow in his hip,
Welcome to weekends with alex witt. 11 years after the first state legalized samesex marriage, the Supreme Court is taking up the issue and could potentially make it the law of the land in just a few months. Yesterday the court agreed to hear arguments beginning in late april and a decision is expected in june. Joining me now in studio emma margolen. Lets talk about the states in question and how theyve been defending their ban. Theyve been defending their bans with everything theyve got. Weve heard arguments based on federalism to a precedent upholding samesex marriage bans to highly questionable recent stating that samesex calms make inferior parents. But the one argument that sticks is the one we heard in the sixth circuit ruling upholding these bans and thats based on states rights. Voters enacted these restrictions on marriage and those decisions should be respected by the courts. So main argument to be presented in support of samesex marriage, what do you think its going to be .