Month: March 2025
CBER Rare Disease Program
CBER 2025 Orphan Approvals (new BLAs)
NASA-ISRO Mission Will Map Farmland From Planting to Harvest
When it launches this year, the NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) satellite will provide a powerful data stream that could help farmers in the U.S.…
Sent Home To Heal, Patients Avoid Wait for Rehab Home Beds
After a patch of ice sent Marc Durocher hurtling to the ground, and doctors at UMass Memorial Medical Center repaired the broken hip that resulted,…
Hospital Gun-Violence Prevention Programs May Be Caught in US Funding Crossfire
DENVER — Seven years ago, Erica Green learned through a Facebook post that her brother had been shot. She rushed to check on him at…
An Arm and a Leg: Medical-Debt Watchdog Gets Sidelined by the New Administration
The federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has taken major steps to help people with medical debt in its nearly 14-year history. It issued rules barring…
Some CT Scans Deliver Too Much Radiation, Researchers Say. Regulators Want To Know More.
Rebecca Smith-Bindman, a professor at the University of California-San Francisco medical school, has spent well over a decade researching the disquieting risk that one of…
NASA Launches Missions to Study Sun, Universe’s Beginning
NASA’s newest astrophysics observatory, SPHEREx, is on its way to study the origins of our universe and the history of galaxies, and to search for…