After a 23 year-old patient at MD Anderson Cancer Center died from complications stemming from a platelet transfusion that was contaminated with gram negative coccobacilli, hospital officials are revising internal protocols to demonstrate compliance with federal regulations.
The Biden administration has left NIH in a weakened state, intensifying politicization of science on Capitol Hill and eroding the bipartisan support the government’s premier biomedical research agency has traditionally enjoyed.
