

Cover Story
White House
By Jacquelyn Cobb and Katie Goldberg
The web page for the FDA Office of Minority Health and Health Equity is no more. The pages for the NCI Diversity Training and Biomedical Workforce Development Branch and Disparities Research Branch are kaput as well.
Podcasts


In The Headlines: Trump moves to cap NIH indirect costs at 15%, HHS agencies webpages removed
In this episode of In the Headlines, Paul Goldberg, publisher of The Cancer Letter, and Jacquelyn Cobb, associate editor, discuss the “doomsday scenario” facing academic cancer centers that would follow the success of President Trump’s move to limit indirect costs to 15% for NIH-funded institutions.
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Clinical Roundup


Drugs & Targets
NCI Trials


NCI Trials for February 2025
The National Cancer Institute approved the following clinical research studies last month.
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