RAI Proposes Tour

CMS proposes changes in H&P rule.

CMA proposes health charter, medicare "auditor general".

Varmus proposes guidelines for stem cell research.

After almost a year of discussion and debate, Harold Varmus, MD, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has proposed guidelines under which federally funded scientists can pursue research using human pluripotent stem cells. The issue has been politically charged. Conservative members of Congress have gone on record against the use of the cell cultures because they believe it viola...

USDA proposes end to acclimation certificates.

The AVMA will likely comment on the proposed amendment, which is on the February meeting agenda for the Council on Veterinary Service. The Association's recently revised policy on acclimation certificates is available at www.avma.org/issues/policy. More on the certificates and the AVMA policy is online at www.avma.org/onlnews/javma/jan08/080115f.asp. Page 1 of 2 USDA proposes end to acclimation...

Europe proposes laxer regulation of clinical trials.

creature known as the European Commission’s Clinical Trials Directive that apparently creates a mountain of bureaucratic red tape and overly stringent oversight, leading to an average 152-day delay in the start of trials. The consequence, many companies and researchers say, has been a substantial decline in the number of applications to conduct clinical trials in the European Union — to 3800 in...