Last week, President Donald Trump announced a deal with pharmaceutical company Merck KGaA and its U.S. subsidiary, EMD Serono, to sharply reduce the cost of some fertility drugs used for in-vitro fertilization, in exchange for a three-year reprieve on some of the tariffs levied on pharmaceutical imports (The Cancer Letter, Oct. 24, 2025).
Michael R. Caputo, a cancer survivor and a Republican political operative with a wide-ranging resume, was named to the President’s Cancer Panel, a board formed under the National Cancer Act to monitor the National Cancer Program and report to the president about “barriers to progress in reducing the burden of cancer.”
