Kennedy: “We’re going to end the war at FDA against alternative medicine”

Senators slam Bhattacharya for deflecting responsibility for NIH cuts, upheaval
Susan Collins: Trump’s 40% cut is “so disturbing”

In a 96-minute hearing in front of the Senate Appropriations Committee on the Trump administration’s budget, senators slammed NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya for not taking responsibility for the funding cuts to research and upheaval at NIH.

June 13, 2025

Vol.51 No.23

By Claire Marie Porter

Drugs & Targets

FDA approves Ibtrozi oral treatment for advanced ROS1+ NSCLC

FDA has approved Ibtrozi (taletrectinib) for the treatment of adult patients with locally advanced or metastatic ROS1-positive non-small cell lung cancer.

June 13, 2025

Vol.51 No.23

Cancer Policy

FDA booth stood empty at 2025 ASCO annual meeting

Booth 10025 became an unlikely crowd magnet at the exhibit hall at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology that ended earlier this week.

ALT GOV: The HHS “resistance” on social media

After a sequence of events that unfolded publicly on NCI’s Instagram feed May 28, RIFed and “retired” members of the NCI communications team took to the independent social media platform BlueSky, creating an alternative and anonymous social media presence.

June 06, 2025

Vol.51 No.22

By Claire Marie Porter

Cancer Policy

Makary: Level of evidence is an artificial and dogmatic construct

Mehmet Oz, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Marty Makary, Jayanta Bhattacharya, and Vinayak Prasad at an FDA Roundtable on Cell and Gene Therapy, June 5.Speaking at an FDA Roundtable on Cell and Gene Therapy, FDA Commissioner Marty Makary questioned the construct of “levels of evidence” as artificial and dogmatic, saying that n-of-1 “stories” can drive regulatory decisions.

June 06, 2025

Vol.51 No.22

By Jacquelyn Cobb