Congress

The US Senate passes two pieces of Food and Drug Administration-related legislation, the New York Times reports.

A senator wants a "right-to-try" provision in the US Food and Drug Administration funding bill, but an ethicist says at Stat News that it would undermine the role of clinical trials.

Lawmakers approve a flat budget for the US National Science Foundation, but suggest how to spend it, ScienceInsider reports.

A House bill would increase the US National Institutes of Health budget by 3 percent, but prohibit it from funding research that uses fetal tissue.

Patients who've learned their genetic risk of disease worry about healthcare law changes in the US, Kaiser Health News reports.

Even with proposed cuts unlikely to materialize, the Atlantic's Ed Yong writes that the specter of them is still felt.

Paul Ryan, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, has appointed Patrick Soon-Shiong to a committee that will advise the president on health IT, Politico reports.