WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 -- The Foundation Fighting Blindness (FFB), Columbia, Maryland, has submitted a public comment letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) emphasizing the importance of appropriate reimbursement for AI-enabled Home Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) monitoring, targeting the Medicare code recently established under new draft regulations. FFB, the leading private funder of research aimed at curing retinal diseases, expressed strong support for the SCANLY prog  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 -- The UCLA Law Center for Reproductive Health, Law, and Policy and UCSF Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health submitted a public comment letter to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration urging the agency to maintain its standards for mifepristone based on evidence and sound science. The letter highlights the concerns of 263 reproductive health researchers regarding pressures to reassess existing safety protocols for the medication. The researchers emphasize that dec  more