House-Senate pact opens FDA, NIH, but only temporarily
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
The FDA, National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other US federal agencies are expected to be fully open for business after Congress on 16 October managed another 11th-hour deal. The news comes after more than two weeks of the government being mostly closed down on 1 October – a shutdown that resulted in a more than $24bn loss to the US economy, leaving many Americans wondering what was the whole thing all about.