June 5, 2026
Julie Kaneshiro, right, and Lisa Buchanan, shown at Kaneshiro's home in Potomac, Md., are among the top leaders who left OHRP.
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Tiny HHS office tasked with protecting research participants’ safety is running on fumes

Departures and budget cuts left Office of Human Research Protections with 10 staffers to oversee 13,000 institutions. Are volunteers at risk?

By Megan Molteni


STAT+ | What stripping civil service protections for thousands of federal workers will mean for HHS

Trump 'Schedule F' proposal to use fewer civil servants rattles health agency officials who expect it to lead to politicized science.

By Anil Oza, Chelsea Cirruzzo, and Lizzy Lawrence


HHS confirms Americans with high-risk Ebola exposures will have access to experimental therapy

HHS confirms Americans exposed to Ebola will have access to experimental monoclonal antibody treatment MBP-134 from Mapp Biopharmaceuticals.

By Helen Branswell



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Opinion: How living and practicing medicine abroad complicated my beliefs about universal health care systems

When an American physician’s daughter experienced a medical emergency in Scotland, it complicated her understanding of universal health care.

By Nisha Narayanan


STAT+ | Drug companies, patient groups urge FDA to pause commissioner’s voucher program

The program offers quicker reviews of new drugs, but has made it easier for political meddling to influence the process.

By Lizzy Lawrence


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