HELP, Finance Advance HHS Nominees – The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee favorably reported the following nominations en bloc to the full Senate by a party line vote of 12-11 last week: Nicole Saphier, MD to be Surgeon General/Medical Director in the Regular Corps of the Public Health Service; Timothy Westlake, MD to be Assistant Secretary …
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White House Drops Plan to Issue Executive Order on NIH Research – On Wednesday, Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins (R-Maine) announced that the White House has agreed to abandon plans to issue an executive order to establish a board of political appointees to oversee the awarding of grants by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The announcement …
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House Passes Health Bills Before Recessing Until After Midterms – The House of Representatives passed several bills last week aimed at protecting communities from illicit drugs: The Combating Illicit Xylazine Act (H.R. 1266) would classify xylazine as a Schedule III drug. Tyler’ Law (H.R. 2004) would require the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services …
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