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Trump v Biden: Where do the candidates stand on GMOs and other key food issues?
For the past 40 years, Farm Bureau has asked every presidential candidate to provide responses to issues likely to impact ...
Democratic strategists urge Joe Biden to take on Monsanto to win rural support
The Biden campaign wants to undercut President Donald Trump’s sweeping victory across rural America in 2016 by making its case ...
Viewpoint: Trump Administration should cut funding to WHO’s IARC cancer agency
The World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer] IARC is supposed to be a scientific program that classifies ...
Is the FDA facing political pressure to rush through approval of untested COVID-19 vaccines to fit Trump’s political schedule?
President Donald Trump has promised that there will be a coronavirus vaccine before the year is out. But public health ...
Trump administration drops transgender health protections
The Trump administration on Friday [June 12] reversed non-discrimination protections for transgender people in health care, a policy shift that ...
‘Serious side effects’: FDA revokes emergency use authorization for hydroxychloroquine as COVID-19 treatment
The Food and Drug Administration on [June 15] said it had withdrawn an emergency approval for use of the malaria ...
Viewpoint: Beware a fraudulent ‘October vaccine surprise’ as Trump maneuvers to win re-election
Oct. 23, 2020, 9 a.m., with 10 days before the election, Fox New releases a poll showing President Trump trailing ...
Hydroxychloroquine found ‘no better than placebo pills’ in preventing COVID-19 in high risk people, New England Journal of Medicine study finds
A malaria drug President Donald Trump took to try to prevent COVID-19 proved ineffective for that in the first large, ...
We’re using a lot of experimental coronavirus treatments. That could make it harder to figure out what works
Use of unproven treatments like hydroxychloroquine could be obscuring clinical trials of other interventions ...
Promising coronavirus treatment effort blocked by fetal tissue research ban
A senior scientist at a government biomedical research laboratory has been thwarted in his efforts to conduct experiments on possible ...
Eliminating HIV by 2030 a real possibility, but ‘we’re not getting off to the right start’
During his State of the Union address in February, President Donald Trump reiterated a promise he had made a year earlier: By ...
Fetal tissue research restrictions disrupting studies into major diseases, including AIDS, Down syndrome, diabetes
A recent Trump administration decision to limit funding of research that uses fetal tissue is already disrupting research into major ...
‘Mini-trade deal’ between US, China expected to ease Chinese restrictions on GMO crops
President Donald Trump has signed off on a mini-trade deal with China, four people familiar with the negotiations said on ...
Trump administration aims to boost farming, medical innovation with streamlined biotech rules
Trump administration officials say they are committed to reducing regulatory barriers to agricultural biotechnology as part of a larger strategy ...
Trump executive order streamlines biotech regulations. Here’s what that means for agriculture
[In June], President Trump signed an Executive Order to streamline the complex maze of rules and policies that regulate agricultural ...
Trump executive order streamlining biotech rules won’t speed CRISPR animal approvals, livestock industry says
The executive order that the Trump administration announced [in June 2019] to streamline the approval process for agricultural biotechnology has ...
President Trump signs executive order that aims to streamline approvals for gene-edited and GMO crops, animals
U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on [June 11] directing federal agencies to streamline the review process for ...
Viewpoint: Trump’s fetal-tissue research ban ‘ignores and defies the facts’
The Trump administration is halting fetal tissue research by government scientists and placing new restrictions on how the National Institutes ...
Why gender evades easy definitions regardless of what the Trump administration says
According to a recent report in the New York Times, the Department of Health and Human Services is “considering narrowly defining gender as ...
Viewpoint: Gene editing poised to revolutionize agriculture—if we can fix biotech regulations
In his speech at the recent American Farm Bureau convention, President Trump said his administration was "streamlining regulations that have blocked cutting-edge ...
Viewpoint: FDA regulations ‘a disaster’ for genetically modified animal research
The Trump Administration and Congress should rein in the FDA's regulatory overreach on genetically engineered animals, which is stifling important ...
Viewpoint: Anti-GMO movement—and label demands—lose steam under Republican administration
The new administration has chosen to follow the analysis of the National Academy of Sciences, which found no material or ...
