The End of Animal Testing? New FDA Rules Aim to Transforming Drug Development  

Is animal testing still necessary for drug development in the 21st century, or has cutting-edge technology made it obsolete? As the FDA begins shifting toward human-relevant models, the debate over eliminating animal testing is heating up like never before. For decades, animal testing has been an entrenched part of drug development. Most life-saving medicines from … Read more

HHS and FDA Aim Big Use of Big Data in Medicine: Genius or Wishful Thinking? 

A new NIH-CMS partnership promises to use electronic medical records (EMRs) and real-world data (RWD) to answer complex questions about autism and other chronic diseases. Experience in the last decade has shown several limitations of the real world data relying of which could lead to dangerous policy missteps, misleading health research, and wasted billions, especially … Read more