On Feb. 7, CMS posted a notice that it will begin accepting registrations for Sunshine Act aggregate-spending reports from industry on Feb. 18. Agg-spend reporting obliges the life sciences industries and GPOs to report payments offered to physicians. Additional data elements will be accepted in May, and all data will be made public later this year. Details at http://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USCMS/bulletins/a3f695?reqfrom=share.
FDA Outlines Updated Requirement for Placebo-Controlled Trials in Vaccine Research
May 21st 2025In an article recently published by The New England Journal of Medicine, FDA higher-ups Vinay Prasad, MD, MPH; and Martin A. Makary, MD, MPH, wrote that any new COVID-19 vaccine must now be evaluated in placebo-controlled studies.