FDA, NIH Get Just-In-Case Shutdown Ready
This article was originally published in Scrip
Executive Summary
While House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) have vowed they won't let the U.S. government shutdown come Oct. 1 – when the fiscal year 2015 funding runs out – the FDA, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other parts of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, are getting ready anyway.