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Happy 75th Anniversary to the CDC’s Disease Detective Program
The phone rang on the evening of February 28, 2020. “We need you deployed to Seattle. Meet with your team at Roybal tomorrow and additional details will be provided.” For weeks, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had been closely monitoring the spread of the novel coronavirus. Disease detectives from the Epidemic Intelligence Service […]
Marty Makary addresses staff concerns about drug voucher program
WASHINGTON — At an employee-led town hall Tuesday, Food and Drug Administration leaders tried to assuage concerns from within and outside staff about a controversial new program aimed at fast-tracking certain drugs. “This pilot is an effort to make our review processes patient-centered,” said Mallika Mundkur, deputy chief medical officer and manager of the new […]
HHS ends the NIH program aimed at diversifying the biomedical workforce
The Ministry of Health and Social Services ends a national institutes of Health Grant program which supports students from marginalized backgrounds in biomedical sciences. HHS secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has announced the elimination of the program – The minority biomedical research support program – in a document published Monday at the Federal Register. Kennedy […]