Following the meeting, spokesman Robert Gibbs said that Mr. Obama pledged to find ways to work with Mexico to reduce drug-related violence and to stop the flow of arms from the U.S. to Mexico.
It also involves greater intelligence sharing aimed at cracking down on the flow of money and weapons into Mexico that helps fuel the drug trade, senior administration officials said.
Starving either the Food and Drug Administration or the National Institutes of Health would be disastrous for the industry, cutting off the flow of new products to the market and the flood of new ideas from academia to industry research labs.