When the current federal administration took office, it issued a memorandum requiring, among other things, that federal agencies delay the issuance of new or proposed rules to the Office of the Federal Register until further...more
On February 7, the National Institutes of Health (“NIH”) issued a Notice (NOT-OD-25-068) entitled “Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates” (the “Notice”), though which NIH announced...more
On March 1, 2024, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS’s) Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) released a draft guidance titled “Key Information and...more
On October 5, 2023, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office of the Secretary, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (OASH), Office of Research Integrity (ORI) issued a Notice of Proposed...more
On July 1, 2022, the Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) published a draft guidance document for public comment on the “Use of a Single Institutional Review Board for Cooperative Research” (“Draft Guidance”)....more
On July 8, two weeks following the Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson that invalidated the constitutional right to abortion, President Biden signed Executive Order 14076 (E.O.). The E.O. directed federal agencies to...more
Ransomware Particularly Inflicts Health Care and Life Sciences Organizations -
Ransomware is a malicious cyber threat vector that employs encryption malware to prevent users from accessing their systems and data unless...more
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