FDA Commissioner Marty Makary held a roundtable of independent scientific experts to discuss the safety and necessity of talc as an additive to food, drugs, and cosmetic products.Â
FDA—under the leadership of cyber-iconoclast and new director of the agency’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Vinay Prasad—is taking a new approach to COVID-19 vaccines.
In the ongoing escalation of the feud between Harvard University and the Trump White House has imperiled hundreds of research grants at Harvard’s medical school.
Harvard University has sued the Trump administration a second time since the start of the ongoing feud between the university and White House.
A three-judge federal appeals court has lifted a lower court order that blocked the federal government from enacting President Trump’s executive order to end collective bargaining by workers at more than a dozen federal agencies.
Legislation aimed at increasing access to breast and cervical cancer screening was introduced May 22 in the U.S. Senate. The bipartisan Screening for Communities to Receive Early and Equitable Needed Services, or SCREENS, for Cancer Act would reauthorize the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program, or NBCCEDP, for fiscal years 2026 through 2030.Â
The Celia Scott Weatherhead School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine at Tulane University appointed Shalini Kulasingam as the founding director of the school’s newly established Center for Cancer Prevention and Control, effective July 1.
NRG Oncology, an NCI National Clinical Trials Network group focused on improving outcomes for adults with cancer through multi-center clinical research, recently announced new chair and vice chair appointments to the NRG NCI Community Oncology Research Program Cancer Prevention & Control Committee.
NYU Langone announced on May 21 the creation of the Mignone Women’s Health Collaborative, building upon the system’s health care services for women and deepening coordination between specialists who work together to treat women at every stage of life.
Barbara Summers, a pioneering nurse leader, mentor and champion of patient-centered care, died May 6, in Richmond, Virginia, surrounded by her family.
