On May 22, 2025, President Trump’s Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission released an assessment titled “The MAHA Report: Make Our Children Healthy Again Assessment.” The report—framed as a “call to action”—stems from a...more
Dr. Jayanta (Jay) Bhattacharya, nominated to be Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and Dr. Martin Makary, nominated to be the Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), appeared before the...more
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) published guidance late on Feb. 7, 2025, setting the indirect cost rate for NIH grants at 15 percent, replacing the negotiated indirect cost rates at many universities, which typically...more
Although Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s nomination hearings to be the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) focused on a variety of areas, his testimony and questions from U.S. senators focused on a few...more
Report on Research Compliance 17, no. 12 (December 2020) - Finalizing a document issued last year, on Nov. 9 the Food and Drug Administration issued “Enhancing the Diversity of Clinical Trial Populations—Eligibility...more
On August 4, 2020, a bipartisan coalition of over 30 attorneys general led by California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry sent a letter request to United States Health and Human...more