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The federal government plans to speed up the review of certain whistleblower complaints related to fraud against benefit programs like Medicare, federal officials told CBS News exclusively Wednesday. The officials said the move will help to fast-track fraud enforcement, a Trump administration priority. The U.S. Department of Justice reviews whistleblower complaints made under the False Claims…

When it comes to delaying or avoiding disability from MS, disease-modifying therapies (also called DMTs) are key. These medicines slow down or stop your multiple sclerosis from getting worse. A few decades ago, these medicines didn’t exist at all. Now there are tons of DMT options. And new and better treatments are coming out all the time. But access to newly approved medicines isn’t automatic.…

New method to assist fast-tracking of vaccines for pre-clinical tests

Research team leader Professor Richard Payne from the ARC Centre for Innovations in Protein and Peptide Science and School of Chemistry at the University of Sydney. Credit: University of Sydney Scientists in Australia have developed a method for the rapid synthesis of safe vaccines, an approach that can be used to test vaccine strategies against novel pandemic pathogens such as SARS-CoV-2, the…