How OMB is using Regulatory Review to Slow NIH Policymaking

How OMB is using Regulatory Review to Slow NIH Policymaking

A not-well-kept secret is that a great way to get funding from NIH is to stagger your applications such that you:

Getting the diagnosis right before designing treatments

tackling structural and bureaucratic rot

Earlier this week, the House and Senate appropriations committees released a bipartisan bill on NIH funding, along with a Joint Explanatory Statement that has a few paragraphs of metascience interest.

From Stuart:

'Breakthroughs are by definition a break with the status quo'

An anonymous guest post

The Trump Administration recently issued an executive order titled “Unlocking Cures for Pediatric Cancer with Artificial Intelligence,” with an accompanying announcement from the Department of Health ...

Recently, the federal government released a proposed “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education,” based on a proposal from investor Marc Rowan.

Take the "news" that medical errors are the third leading cause of death with a grain of salt. Medical errors are poorly defined, and that estimate has been around for awhile.

There ought to be a federal department exclusively focused on making government work better, that is, government efficiency.

Guest Column by Casey Handmer

Showing which proposals do and don’t receive federal funding can improve research and advance open science.