JOHN PORTER, former member of Congress, partner in the law firm Hogan Lovells, and chair of Research!America, was named the recipient of the 2014 Public Welfare Medal by the National Academy of Sciences. The medal will be presented April 27 during the academy’s 151st annual meeting.
More than a year after a catastrophic shortage of platinum-based chemotherapy drugs swept through the U.S., FDA on June 28 officially removed carboplatin and cisplatin from the drug shortage list.
