The latest news across UAEM regions.

Justin Mendoza 4/4/23 Justin Mendoza 4/4/23

UAEM North America Announces new Executive Director: Justin Mendoza

Universities Allied for Essential Medicines, North America (UAEM) announced today that it had appointed Justin Mendoza, MPH, the new executive director for the organization.

Justin Mendoza 3/21/23 Justin Mendoza 3/21/23

FDA Has Neglected Clinical Trial Transparency — Plus $45 Billion in Fines

The FDA recently requested $7.2 billion for its 2024 budget -- an increase of $372 million from 2023. However, missing from that request is urgently-needed support for FDA enforcement of clinical trial transparency, despite thousands (and counting) of trials not reporting results as required by law.

Opinion piece in MedPage Today by Megan Curtin, Navya Dasari, and Justin Mendoza, MPH

Justin Mendoza 3/1/23 Justin Mendoza 3/1/23

Eli Lilly & Co. Price Drop

Washington, DC - Following the announcement that Eli Lilly & Co. will be lowering the price and costs of insulin for consumers, Universities Allied for Essential Medicines (UAEM) issued the following statement.

Justin Mendoza 2/27/23 Justin Mendoza 2/27/23

FDA Accused of Laxity Over Posting of Clinical Trial Results

Justin Mendoza 2/27/23 Justin Mendoza 2/27/23

FDA is petitioned to boost enforcement of trial sponsors that fail to register studies or report results

Justin Mendoza 2/27/23 Justin Mendoza 2/27/23

UAEM North America Pressures U.S. FDA for Clinical Trial Transparency

Universities Allied for Essential Medicines (UAEM) North America, with assistance from Columbia Law School’s Science, Health and Information Clinic (SHIC), filed a citizen petition at the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) on February 27th to urge the agency to improve enforcement of clinical trial transparency. Transparency laws require public access to studies on drugs and medical devices, benefitting patients and researchers, but FDA has underenforced the law, keeping potentially life-saving data from the public.

Justin Mendoza 4/19/22 Justin Mendoza 4/19/22

HOW UCLA STUDENTS PERSISTED AND WON

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It’s not the mission of universities to perpetuate inequity. Why do Emory and others do that?

As billions of people in the Global South continue to confront Covid-19 unprotected because they cannot access vaccines, a recent announcement regarding a new, potentially effective therapy offered a glimmer of hope.