THE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY School of Medicine in St. Louis received a $25 million pledge from philanthropists James and Elizabeth McDonnell for the schools genomics institute. With the gift, the institute will be named The Elizabeth H. and James S. McDonnell III Genome Institute.
More than a year after a catastrophic shortage of platinum-based chemotherapy drugs swept through the U.S., FDA on June 28 officially removed carboplatin and cisplatin from the drug shortage list.
