Reproductive Biomedicine & Society Online is a new open access journal that came out with its first issue in June with a symposium on in vitro fertilization. According to the journal’s website: “RBMS is a new journal dedicated to interdisciplinary …
The Director of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), Francis S. Collins, MD, PhD, has just announced that the NIH will no longer support biomedical research on chimpanzees. This decision follows the recent U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service final …
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) just announced a request for information and comments “on the use of the term ‘natural’ in the labeling of human food products, including foods that are genetically engineered or contain ingredients produced through …
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General recently released a Policy Statement Regarding Hospitals That Discount or Waive Amounts Owed by Medicare Beneficiaries for Self-Administered Drugs Dispensed in Outpatient Settings. Hospitals will not be …
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) recently released its Regulatory Science Priorities (FY 2016), which will “serve to accelerate improving the safety, effectiveness, performance and quality of medical devices and radiation-emitting products, and …
