The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued a progress report this week on its implementation of Project BioShield, a program that gives the department authorities to support, facilitate, ...

Legislation is being introduced again this year intended to go beyond Project Bioshield in promoting development of drugs that would be needed to treat victims of an act of biological terrorism. Reps.

Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.), chairman of the House Government Reform Committee, requested information Dec. 5 from Michael Leavitt, secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, regarding ...

President Bush in a ceremony in the White House Rose Garden on Wednesday signed the Project BioShield Act (S 15), which guarantees $5.6 billion over the next 10 years to promote private-sector ...

Sens. Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.) and Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) in the next few months plan to propose legislation to provide pharmaceutical companies that develop products used to respond to a bioterrorist ...

{mosads}Following the events of 9/11, Congress enacted Project BioShield to expand the U.S. stockpile of medicines and vaccines, referred to as medical countermeasures, to protect against potential ...

The program Congress established to speed commercial development of vaccines and treatments to counter a potential bioterror attack is moving too slowly ...

Melissa Quinn previously worked for The Daily Signal as a senior news reporter. Seeking a more robust defense in the event of a bioterrorist attack on the United States, the Bush administration ...

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has issued five awards totaling $4 million to fund the development of products that ...

Project BioShield was the federal government's $5.6 billion answer to the anthrax scare of 2001. But funds have been slowly distributed, and an anthrax treatment is bogged down in a rivalry between ...

Melissa Quinn previously worked for The Daily Signal as a senior news reporter. Congress and the Obama White House looked for billions of dollars a few years ago to offset the costs of a legal ...