Episode 17 Demystified: Big Pharma is prepared for the impact of the Trump administration health policies?

The changes in health policy of the Trump administration have aroused a lot of concerns about their short and long -term consequences. In their monthly discussion, the Podcast Debunded welcomes the editor -in -chief of Medcity News, Arundhati Parmar, and Samir Batra, director of Health Innovation Pitch, underlined the important reductions in medical research subsidies, the changes in the CDC Vaccine Board and where the burden would probably move to: Large pharmaceutical companies.

The hosts also drew attention to the backlash of these cuts – a letter signed by NIH workers addressed to the director of NIH, Jay Bhattacharya. A recent article in Medcity News highlighted part of the drama. In a letter of June 9 in Bhattacharya, NIH workers reprimanded these actions and said they caused “a spectacular reduction in vital research”. The criticized letter: to end hundreds of subsidies funding scientific and biomedical research; dismiss more than 1,000 employees this year; And pass to put an end to billions of funds to associate abroad abroad, a current move and the former NIH workers say that research harms rare cancers and infectious diseases, as well as research which is aimed at minimizing tobacco consumption and related chronic diseases, among other fields.

Another subject of discussion of the Podcast was the decision of Robert Kennedy, JR, Secretary of Health and Social Services, to empty the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the Vaccination Advice Panel and replace them with members with anti-Vax positions.

Samir noted that a consequence of reductions in medical subsidies would be that large pharmaceutical companies would probably carry the burden of the first R&Ds which were previously subsidized by the federal government.

“The most important thing here that people do not carry out is that the government is based on early research and development,” said Samir. “These capacities will be hampered without federal support.”

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