National Law Review December 6, 2021
On November 16, 2021, U.S. House Representatives Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Fred Upton (R-MI) introduced the highly anticipated Cures 2.0 Act (H.R. 6000). Among other things, this 173-page bipartisan bill contain provisions to accelerate medical research, increase patient access to novel therapeutics, and remove current barriers to telehealth services.
This bill would also create a new agency called Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) within the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This agency would be tasked with developing novel treatments to challenging diseases such as cancer, diabetes, ALS, and Alzheimer’s. In a press release, DeGette and Upton said, “By creating ARPA-H, we will be bringing together some of our nation’s greatest minds to help find cures to these devastating...
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