Sentences with phrase «zika funding»

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R) of Kentucky told USA Today that the chamber would likely hold another vote on the same Zika funding bill next week.

And progress over spending bills — including the Zika supplemental funding, the fate of which is still to be determined [Sept. 30 update: Congress has approved $ 1.1 billion in Zika funding as part of its continuing resolution]-- has been marred by policy riders on a wide range of topics from both parties in both chambers.

If the NIH inoculation proves safe, it will then move to the next stage of trials in the Caribbean and South America — if the months - old budget request for emergency Zika funding clears Congress, he says.

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Obama returned from his Martha's Vineyard vacation yesterday, ready for a busy fall season and more battles with Congress over Zika funding, the federal budget and $ 400 million the administration paid Iran this year for the never - completed sale of military equipment.

Just as the Republicans won back control of the Senate in 2014 in part by criticizing the Obama administration's lackluster response to Ebola, the GOP could get hit this fall for standing in the way of Zika funding.

Gov. Scott had urged public calm, even as he and Sen. Marco Rubio (R - FL) pleaded with the federal government to provide more resources and called on Ryan and McConnell to summon lawmakers into a special session to break the impasse over the Zika funding bill.

Congress's failure to resolve the Zika funding impasse may reflect a larger political reality: Most Americans just don't care about it or else feel they are safe from the possible spread of the disease.

Not exact matches

Development of a Zika vaccine is still ongoing (despite the effort running low on funds).

But Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada and other Democratic leaders say the bill is unacceptable in its present form, including a ban on federal funding for Planned Parenthood in Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory in the Caribbean that has reported nearly 2,000 cases of Zika infection.

He stressed that Rubio has been a leader in the fight for funding for Zika treatment in Florida.

Both Reid and Florida Senator Marco Rubio, a Republican, renewed calls for lawmakers in the House and Senate to return to Washington to authorize funding to help public health officials fight the spread of Zika.

«The Republican Senate refuses to hold hearings on [Supreme Court nominee] Judge Garland, refuses to fund the President's request for Zika aid and takes the most days off of any Senate since 1956, but thinks Facebook hearings are a matter of urgent national interest,» Jentleson said.

As reported by the New York Post's Yoav Gonen, Kavanagh joined Mayor Bill de Blasio and New York City Health Commissioner Dr. Mary Bassett for a press briefing on the City's proactive response to the threat of the Zika virus, and the need for Congress to fund a robust, decisive effort by the federal government — in New York and especially in warmer places where mosquitoes known to transmit the virus are prevalent — to avert a health crisis in the United States.

Democratic U.S. senators rejected a $ 1.1 billion measure to fight the Zika virus, saying Republicans had inserted a ban on funding for Planned Parenthood to provide related contraceptive services.

The White House will redirect more than half - a-billion dollars from its cache of Ebola funds to address the emerging Zika threat because the mosquito - borne virus is likely to soon make its way to the United States.

The Obama administration's proposal to allocate nearly $ 2 billion in emergency funding to prevent the spread of the Zika virus in the United States should be approved quickly by federal lawmakers, U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer said during a visit to Buffalo.

Millions of dollars was repaid to states and U.S. territories that was borrowed earlier this year in an emergency move to combat the Zika virus, but states will have to apply for additional funds if they want to fight mosquitoes and monitor pregnant women.

At a news conference in White Plains, Congresswoman Nita Lowey demanded the House of Representatives break from summer recess and pass a $ 1.1 billion Senate bill that would continue to fund the fight against the Zika virus.

Esty said lawmakers were discussing setting up a permanent emergency fund that would available for projects like working on a Zika vaccine, though she was optimistic that Obama's funding request would be approved without being tied to a larger, partisan battle over the federal budget.

The mayor is pushing congressional leaders to act on $ 1.9 billion in federal funding to tackle the Zika crisis.

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is calling on the Department of Health and Human Services to use its funds to fight Zika instead of paying for ObamaCare outreach.

At 10:45 a.m., Rep. Nita Lowey will hold a press conference to call for expedited approval in the House of a bill to fund efforts to fight the Zika virus, 222 Mamaroneck Ave., Suite 312, White Plains.

Rep. Carolyn Maloney makes the case for dedicated funding from to combat the spread of Zika.

Even so, the city pledged $ 21 million to a three - year plan to fight Zika that includes funding for research and testing of mosquitoes as well as preventive measures.

Take Kellie Ann Jurado, a postdoctoral scientist in immunobiology at Yale University, who will use the funding for research on the effects of the Zika virus on the nervous system.

In a revolutionary first, Cancer Research UK - funded scientists will test whether the Zika virus can destroy brain tumour cells, potentially leading to new treatments for one of the hardest to treat cancers.

During the September Congressional fight over how much to provide and whether to offset it, Mulvaney posted a Facebook update in which he questioned the relationship between Zika and birth defects, and asked whether «we really need government - funded research at all» given this alleged uncertainty.

«But the Obama administration still is requesting more help from Congress to both fund Zika efforts and replenish money shifted away from Ebola, says Anthony Fauci, the head of NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases... in Bethesda, Maryland.

«The White House's decision... to shift $ 589 million in unspent Ebola response funding to fighting Zika won't require cutting any Ebola research supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH),» Puneet Kollipara wrote last Friday.

Additionally, scientists at the FMEL are applying for research funding to work on the Zika virus, Rey said.

And until media attention surged recently, there had been little interest or research funding available to study Zika virus.

Greer, associate professor of health management and policy, said the current administration's difficulty getting funding for Zika in a presidential election year represents a bit of déjà vu, in terms of political posturing in the face of a major health threat.

Funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, researchers are following 200 infants with congenital Zika syndrome and their families to understand the ongoing health impact, why some babies affected by the virus develop more normally than others, and if more positive prognoses are linked with family or environmental characteristics.

So far, Congress has not heeded the White House's call for emergency funding to respond to Zika.

«Zika vaccines protect mice from infection: NIH - funded research suggests human vaccine is possible.»

A study published in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases presents a cost - effectiveness tool that can help guide decisions regarding resource allocation to fund interventions targeted at curtailing the ongoing Zika virus outbreak.

► «Data from studies of Zika virus and its clinical effects should be shared as soon as possible, without scientists having to worry that they're endangering a later publication, dozens of leading journals and research funding agencies said Wednesday in a statement,» Vogel wrote in a ScienceInsider published that day.

In a subsequent exchange, Senator Benjamin Cardin (D — MD) said that Trump's executive order yesterday reinstating the so - called Mexico City policy, which bans U.S. funding for foreign nongovernmental organizations that perform or promote abortions in the context of family planning, could also apply to maternal health organizations and others working to stop the Zika virus and HIV / AIDs.

The researchers applied their tool to evaluate the health impact that funds committed or proposed to combat Zika would need to achieve in order to be cost - effective.

Analyses using the tool suggest that proposed funds to combat Zika in the US and other countries would be cost - effective, based on quantification of the serious health conditions associated with Zika infection.

Data from studies of Zika virus and its clinical effects should be shared as soon as possible, without scientists having to worry that they're endangering a later publication, dozens of leading journals and research funding agencies said today in a statement.

The funding request includes $ 250 million to help Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory in the Caribbean that has active transmission of Zika virus.

This confirmation came as no surprise (scientists have been building a case against Zika for months), but it could be just the push Congress needs to authorize emergency funding for Zika research and response.

To support this and other efforts by the Centers for Disease Control and the National Institutes of Health, Fauci noted that President Obama last week asked Congress for $ 1.8 billion budget supplement to respond to the threat of Zika, including funding to support the NIH involvement in vaccine development.

A near - atomic level map of Zika virus shows its structure to be largely similar to that of dengue virus and other flaviviruses, but with a notable difference in one key surface protein, report scientists funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health.

The Virus Pathogen Resource (ViPR) is a US NIH / NIAID - funded, freely - available online bioinformatics resource for search, analysis and visualization of data about 14 different families of human pathogenic viruses, including Coronaviridae (SARS, MERS), Flaviviridae (Dengue, Zika, West Nile, Yellow fever, Hepatitis C), Picornaviridae (Polio, Enterovirus D68), Togaviridae (Chikungunya, EEEV, VEEV, Rubella), Arenaviridae (Lassa), Filoviridae (Ebola, Marburg), Herpesviridae (HSV, EBV, CMV), and Poxviridae (Smallpox).

In 2016, Moderna received a funding award of up to $ 125 million from the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), a division of the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), to accelerate development of its Zika mRNA vaccine.

The US National Institutes of Health was asked to fund so - called «human challenge trials», which would involve healthy volunteers being Read more about Ethical dilemma of studying Zika in humans - Scimex

«With the recent increase in federal funding to support research on the Zika virus, we are optimistic that we will be able to combat this epidemic swiftly.»