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Aastrom Biosciences production assistant Mary Cheeramvelil works at "priming" cell cassettes for incubation in the laboratory in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Unless women are somehow only 25 percent as creative as men these days, we have a big problem with our so-called "innovation age."
Florida Gov. Rick Scott speaks at a press conference about the Zika virus as Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Dr. Tom Frieden , Congresswoman Frederica Wilson and Florida Surgeon General Celeste Philip look on in Doral, Florida, U.S. on August 4, 2016. REUTERS/Joe Skipper/File Photo Florida Republican Governor Rick Scott on Sunday accused the federal government of lagging in providing assistance to combat the spread of the Zika virus in a Miami-area neighborhood, the site of the first U.S. transmission of the virus.
President Barack Obama's administration warned Congress on Wednesday that money to fight the Zika virus is on the verge of running out as Capitol Hill faces a political stalemate. In a letter to key lawmakers, the secretary of Health and Human Services said the National Institutes of Health would exhaust its resources for vaccine development by month's end.
This 2006 file photo provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a female Aedes aegypti mosquito in the process of acquiring a blood meal from a human host. The Aedes aegypti mosquito is behind the large outbreaks of Zika virus in Latin America and the Caribbean.
This week is a potentially troublesome one for biotechnology stocks and the related exchange traded funds. Not only are there a spate of big-name biotech earnings scheduled to roll in, but the Democratic National Convention is taking place in Philadelphia.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Thomas Frieden steps away form the podium during a press conference at a one-day Zika summit The continental United States is on the cusp of summer, and with it, the rising threat of the mosquito-borne Zika virus. In February, President Obama asked Congress for $1.9 billion to prepare for the fight against the rapidly-approaching virus, which can cause severe brain abnormalities in children when pregnant women are infected.
The best line comes after the AP notes that Trump's fans are forever praising him for not letting sleazy fatcats buy influence with him via campaign contributions. Now that the sleaze tap has been turned on for the general election , the report continues, "It's not clear how they will react."
Donald Trump's plans to cut U.S. corporate tax rates could trigger increased investment in the United States by Novartis, its chief executive told Reuters, despite the president-elect's recent harsh words on drug prices. "When we build a new manufacturing site we think about the tax rate, we think about the economy of the country, we think about jobs, so a booming U.S. economy would make the U.S. more attractive for investment," Joe Jimenez said on Wednesday.
A U.S. Senator is criticizing the director of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for an apparent financial conflict of interest that the senator says may prevent the director from doing her job. Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald became director of the Atlanta-based CDC in July, and was required to sell a range of stocks she owned, including beer and soda companies, the tobacco company Philip Morris International, and a number of health care companies such as vaccine manufacturers and health-care companies.