Day: June 15, 2017

Smartphone apps allow users to manage their own health and wellness; and FDA has taken a mostly hands off approach to regulating them. But with new apps being created to capture a variety of use and handling information to diagnose and potential help treat diseases, particularly neurological diseases, FDA may need to step in and … Read more

Less than a few weeks after announcing that it plans to encourage better distribution of funds available for NIH grants, NIH abruptly backed off its announced policy due to a backlash from the affected scientific community, presumably the high rollers who would have been at the receiving end of the cuts. In the previous announcement, … Read more