regulatory
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Drugs & FDA
The FDA Has Approved 4 Plant Drugs Since 2004. Now It's Asking the Public Why So Few Made It.
A request for public input is not reform. After two decades of a pathway that produced four approvals, the question is whether the agency wants plant medicine or just wants to talk about it.
Drugs & FDAChina Runs More Drug Trials Than America. The FDA Says It Can No Longer Trust Data From Sites It Can't Inspect.
China went from under 8 percent of the world's drug trials in 2010 to passing the United States by 2020. After three deaths in Chinese studies surfaced late, the FDA says it has sometimes been denied access to the very sites whose data underpins American approvals.
InvestigationsArkansas Cut 18,000 Eligible People From Medicaid Over Paperwork, and the 2027 Fix Is AI Its Own Authors Say Will Reproduce the Bias
A federal work requirement hits ACA Medicaid on January 1, 2027. Health-policy academics propose using AI to verify, screen, and manage the rollout, and the paper's lead author admits the system will "100% reproduce" the biases baked into the data.