On July 4, President Donald Trump signed into law “The One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” which is expected to deal a massive blow to Medicaid coverage and leave millions without insurance by instituting a work requirement for beneficiaries.
In a move that will have direct impact on approval of cancer drugs, George Francis Tidmarsh, an oncologist and a longtime pharmaceutical executive, was named director of the FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research.
The landscape of cancer care is evolving rapidly, with growing recognition that optimal patient outcomes require a whole-person care approach that goes beyond cytotoxic and targeted therapies.
NCI announced that the paylines for R01 grants for established and new investigators are expected to drop to the 4th percentile—a historic low for the institute.
Laura LoomerVinay PrasadRight-wing activist Laura Loomer is demanding Vinay Prasad’s ouster from FDA, calling him a “saboteur” and “trojan [sic] horse” of the administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” initiative.