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It seems like every time we turned around this year, there was an exciting or—on a more visceral level, “Hey, that’s cool!” science story. Here’s a look at the top 9 really cool life science discoveries of the year, from outer space, to peanut allergies, to tortoise genomes.
As the Trump administration has continued to show its lack of financial support of scientific research using fetal tissue, the National Institutes of Health is setting aside $20 million to fund research that could develop alternatives to the use of embryonic tissue.
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It apparently began with a 2016 federal lawsuit. At that time, 20 state attorneys general filed a federal lawsuit alleging that six generic drug makers artificially inflated and manipulated prices for an antibiotic and an oral diabetes drug. The goal was to reduce competition.
Many recent college graduates with science degrees wonder, “What other careers are available outside of a laboratory or research environment?” Concurrently, a large amount of mid-career and late-career professionals consider pursuing non-traditional science roles.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a new 2019 strategic Framework for how it plans to advance the use of so-called real-world data (RWD) to improve regulatory decisions. The agency has indicated that this is a strategic priority.
The government alleged Actelion provided money to a nonprofit to cover copay costs for Medicare drugs, a violation of the False Claims Act.
he Ministry of Health and Prevention recently met with a Chinese delegation to discuss mutually beneficial cooperation in the use of technological innovations such as artificial intelligence (AI) in the health care sector.
Noted biotech investor G. Steven Burrill will only spend 30 months in jail for his involvement in wire fraud and tax evasion. Burrill pleaded guilty to the charges last year and, at the time, faced up to 30 years in prison. Now, he will serve less than one-tenth of that amount.
Researchers who focus on HIV vaccines are caught in the middle of a political battle over funding of fetal stem cell research.
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