This year marks the 30th anniversary of the NIH revitalization act that required women and minorities to be included in clinical research in the US. Putting that into perspective, we have only really been collecting data at scale on women and minorities since the movie Jurassic Park was launched. If we want more people to participate in clinical trials, it is time to get real about reducing the burden of research on volunteers.

China’s top securities regulator is slowing down the review of initial public offering applications across the board to “stabilize” the stock market. But event prior to the move, Chinese biotechs were operating already under a continuously tightening IPO environment.

The US Federal Trade Commission is "fully prepared" to bring forward cases after issuing hundreds of penalty offense notices in April regarding health claims substantiation, and it is likely to seek injunctive and monetary relief, said Samuel Levine, director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, at the National Advertising Division’s annual conference in Philadelphia.