
What We're Reading: Ryan's Legacy on Healthcare; FDA Investigates University; NIH Probes Alcohol Research
House Speaker Paul Ryan is leaving Congress at the end of the year without success on spending cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security; the FDA is conducting a criminal investigation into research by a Southern Illinois University professor who injected people with his unauthorized herpes vaccine; the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is "aggressively" looking into reports that it solicited funding from the alcohol industry for a study on the benefits of moderate drinking.
Ryan Leaving Congress Without Success on Spending Cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security
With House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wisconsin, leaving Congress at the end of the year, the Republican party will lose its most influential champion for spending curbs to Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security,
FDA Conducting Criminal Probe into University, Firm Over Unauthorized Vaccines
The FDA is conducting a criminal investigation into research by a Southern Illinois University (SIU) professor who injected people with his unauthorized herpes vaccine,
NIH Investigating Alcohol Research Funding Requests
The NIH is "aggressively" looking into reports that it solicited funding from the alcohol industry for a study on the benefits of moderate drinking,
The New York Times has reported that NIH officials solicited donations from alcoholic beverage manufacturers to fund a $100 million study on the health effects of moderate alcohol consumption. NIH Director Francis Collins told lawmakers on Capitol Hill he has convened a “working group” and will turn anything that seems “inappropriate” over to authorities.
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