Health Providers Gird for Immigration Crackdown

In his return to the White House this week, President Donald Trump issued a flurry of executive orders on immigration, including declaring an emergency at the U.S.-Mexico border, suspending refugee admissions, and calling to roll back birthright citizenship. His administration rescinded a long-standing policy not to arrest people without legal status at or near sensitive…

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Augmenting Brain Power: Real-World Data, Advanced Analytics, and the Future of Clinical Trials

The application of AI technology is part of a carefully orchestrated effort dependent on human intelligence, and the collaboration of physicians, disease-specific specialists, nurses, data scientists, and technologists. Done right, these efforts can lead to profound benefits, and offer a promising future for clinical research and patient care. The post Augmenting Brain Power: Real-World Data, Advanced…

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Can the NIH replace all private sector clinical R&D?

A paper by Proudman et al. (2024) finds that doing so would be extremely expensive. Including all preclinical, clinical and post-approval R&D activities, total annual costs to maintain the average lifecycle level of 49.4 approved drugs across all disease areas during the 2018–22 period was estimated to be $139.6 billion. Including only pre-launch costs, total…

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