Policy & Ethics
NIH Plans to Spend Up to $20 Million on Search for Alternatives to Fetal Tissue for Research
The preliminary announcement comes in the wake of a Trump administration order that agency scientists to stop buying such tissue from humans
Stories by Ike Swetlitz
Public Health
Trump's Transgender Proposal: Stigma Is "Not in the Interest of Public Health," CDC Director Says
Director Robert Redfield declined to comment directly on the policy, which would define someone’s sex at birth
Public Health
Researchers to Release Genetically Engineered Mosquitoes in Africa for First Time
Up to 10,000 bugs could be deployed
Policy & Ethics
Will Trump’s Plans Bring Down Drug Prices?
Healthcare experts seek to unpack the bold and the bluster in the varying proposals
Public Health
Ancient Teeth Unlock Plague Secrets
The findings suggest the pathogen’s ancestor is almost 1,000 years older than previously thought
Medicine
FDA Plans to Speed Path to Approval for Some Gene Therapies
The agency’s first target will be hemophilia
Medicine
Trump Denounces “Middlemen” and Largely Spares Pharma in Drug Pricing Speech
The White House proposal would not allow Medicare to negotiate prices or expand medication imports
Policy & Ethics
Senators Traded in Tobacco Stocks While Sitting on Health Committee
Lawmakers, unlike executive branch employees, are allowed to engage in such activity
Public Health
Trump Endorses “Right to Try” for Terminally Ill Patients
More than 30 states already have laws that allow access to experimental treatments
Public Health
FDA Plans to Regulate Nicotine Levels in Cigarettes
The agency hopes to bring the substance down to “nonaddictive” levels, but there’s no consensus on what those are
Neurological Health
Even a Moderate Amount of Drinking Could Cause Brain Decline
Having eight to 12 drinks per week was linked to hippocampus shrinkage in a study of several hundred Londoners
Public Health
White House Expands Anti-Abortion Policy, Imperiling Global Health Funding
The new implementation of the so-called Mexico City Policy could restrict funds to foreign NGOs that perform non-abortion-related health work
Biotech
Brave New Wool? Artificial Womb Sustains Premature Lambs for Weeks
The technology may someday help babies born in their second trimester survive
Medical & Biotech
A Revolutionary Genetic Experiment is Planned for a West African Village – If Residents Agree
A gene drive bid aims to eliminate malaria
Medicine
Trump's Doctor Speaks Out about His Most Famous Patient
"It never occurred to me that he was the oldest president"
Medicine
Trump Considers FDA Chief Who Says People Should Use Medicines “At Their Own Risk”
Jim O'Neill is not a physician, but he speaks frequently at biotech industry meetings
Neurological Health
NFL Doctors’ Conflicts of Interest May Endanger Players
Physicians are hired and fired by the team, not the athletes
Biotech
Can a Supercomputer Suggest the Best Cancer Treatment?
An artificial intelligence system is drastically expanding its reach in Asia
