Vinay Prasad, FDA’s chief medical and scientific officer and director of the agency’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, has instructed his staff to check with him before continuing to work on ongoing submissions to journals or beginning new contract-funded projects to “ensure that we are not engaging in sunk cost fallacy, not publishing obviously erroneous work, and not being distracted from our core mission.”
Nearly two years after FDA issued a final rule requiring radiologists to tell women whether their breasts are “dense” or “not dense” after a mammogram, the notification has become nearly universal.
