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NIH Director: DEI Grants Reinstated by Court Order Will Not Be Renewed
Throughout the year, researchers have been encouraged by legal rulings pushing back against National Institutes of Health guidelines to stop and deprioritize work they deem related to diversity, equity, and inclusion. In June, two lawsuits filed against the Trump administration in federal court in Boston led to the elimination of more than 2,000 grants and […]
Billions at stake as appeals court hears NIH arguments on indirect costs
Questions and comments from federal appeals court judges during a hearing Wednesday suggested they may be skeptical of some of the Trump administration’s central arguments in a lawsuit challenging its proposed changes to research overhead payments. The case centers on a multibillion-dollar question: Did the National Institutes of Health, the nation’s largest funder of biomedical […]
Roche suffers another blow as Indian Supreme Court allows sale of generics of its expensive rare disease drug
In a case billed as profiteering against patients, India’s Supreme Court rejected a petition in which Roche sought to stop a generic drugmaker from selling a cheaper version of an expensive rare disease drug. The move comes after a lower court earlier this month upheld a ruling that it would be in the public interest […]
Court rules against Novo Nordisk on Medicare price negotiations
A federal appeals court has unanimously rejected Novo Nordisk’s challenge to Medicare’s drug price negotiation program, a ruling that will allow the government to group products containing the same ingredient together for the purpose of choosing which drugs to negotiate. The pharmaceutical industry is on a losing streak on this issue, at least in the […]
The Supreme Court allows NIH to reduce $ 783 million in research funding
Washington – The Trump administration can reduce hundreds of millions of dollars in research in its pressure to reduce federal diversity, equity and inclusion on Thursday, decided the Supreme Court on Thursday. The majority of the high court raised the order of a judge blocking the value of $ 783 million in reductions by the […]