Letter to the Editor: "Keep the Medical Device Tax" -

Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, millions more Americans can now afford medical care that relies on devices like CT scans, cardiac implants or joint replacements. Our nonpartisan research center just released a report indicating that the device industry is thriving in the two years since the tax went into effect.

House GOP proposes changes for NIH, FDA -

By John Fritze, The Baltimore Sun. January 27, 2015. House Republicans are considering significant changes to the way billions of dollars in National Institutes of Health grants are awarded to research institutions under a proposal intended to speed medical breakthroughs.