In a first procedural move of its kind, NCI asked its Board of Scientific Advisors to endorse the institute’s continuing affiliation with the Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, a Federally Funded Research and Development Center.
Multiple components of the healthcare and public health systems are currently under scrutiny. One of them is reportedly the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF: “Task Force”), established in 1984 and managed by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. It was created to maintain an ongoing evaluation of disease prevention and screening interventions that...
