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*Maryland Editor Tipoffs Newsletter for 2025-09-02 ( 2 items )  
Foundation Fighting Blindness Urges CMS to Ensure Appropriate Reimbursement for AI-Enabled Home Eye Monitoring (10)
WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 -- The Foundation Fighting Blindness (FFB), Columbia, Maryland, has submitted a public comment letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) emphasizing the importance of appropriate reimbursement for AI-enabled Home Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) monitoring, targeting the Medicare code recently established under new draft regulations. FFB, the leading private funder of research aimed at curing retinal diseases, expressed strong support for the SCANLY prog more ST

Reproductive Health Experts Call on FDA to Uphold Evidence-Based Standards for Mifepristone (10)
WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 -- The UCLA Law Center for Reproductive Health, Law, and Policy and UCSF Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health submitted a public comment letter to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration urging the agency to maintain its standards for mifepristone based on evidence and sound science. The letter highlights the concerns of 263 reproductive health researchers regarding pressures to reassess existing safety protocols for the medication. The researchers emphasize that dec more ST