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On December 3, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced a draft policy for the “Use of a Single Institutional Review Board (IRB) for Multi-Site Research.” The new policy establishes the expectation that multi-site NIH-funded domestic studies will make use of a single IRB of record, rather than multiple local IRBs. Comments on the proposed...
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During an unusual weekend session, on December 13 the U.S. Senate finally passed a government funding bill for the remainder of the 2015 fiscal year passed earlier by the House of Representatives. High drama ensued in the Capitol as a small group of conservatives tried to block debate on the bill by raising concerns with...
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NIH Proposed Guidelines for Reporting Preclinical Research Incorporate Endocrine Society Perspective The potential for basic science to generate new innovations and create positive impacts for society critically depends on the reproducibility of the basic research that informs downstream clinical development and application. In recent years, the biomedical research enterprise has come under criticism from the...
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The potential for basic science to generate new innovations and create positive impacts for society critically depends on the reproducibility of the basic research that informs downstream clinical development and application. In recent years, the biomedical research enterprise has come under criticism from the public and a number of scientists due to the failure of...
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The National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP), a partnership between the NIH, the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), and several organizations and agencies, including the Endocrine Society released a newly published set of 10 guiding principles highlighting areas of agreement for diabetes care that could be clinically useful in diabetes management and prevention. Guiding...
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Lame Duck Congress Considers NIH Funding Congress is scheduled to return to Washington for a “Lame Duck” session to complete work on items that were left unfi nished before the mid-term elections. Key among these will be Fiscal Year 2015 funding. Although the fi scal year began October 1, Congress was unable to agree to...
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The Social Security Act requires CMS to collect information from applicable manufacturers and group purchasing organizations (GPOs) in order to report information about their financial relationships with physicians and hospitals. Open Payments is the federally run program that collects the information about financial relationships between physicians and hospitals with applicable manufacturers and GPOs and makes...
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Endocrine Society Tells FDA Testosterone Therapy Should Only Be for Men with Hypogonadism The Endocrine Society testified at a September 17 meeting of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) discussing the appropriate population for testosterone replacement therapy and the potential for adverse cardiovascular outcomes associated with its use. Th ough testosterone use has sharply increased...
Endocrinology Advocacy
Not all topics of relevance to endocrinologists are about specific conditions and diseases. Sometimes, doctors need information about changes in the medical field or the field of endocrinology. Changes to medical insurance legislation, drug trial regulations and even patient privacy legislation all impact a practitioner’s way of doing business and practicing medicine. Yet keeping track of these details is not always easy. That’s why Endocrine News has organized articles and news pieces on these topics into this advocacy page. Here, practitioners can find the information gathered by the Endocrine Society, a leading endocrinology advocacy organization, conveniently in one location.
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