Dietary Guidelines Lawsuit; Expensive NIH Policy; Pediatrician Running for Office
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The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government over the most recent dietary guidelines. The suit alleges that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) mishandled the process for creating the guidelines. The PCRM claims that the agencies assembled a panel with conflicts of interest and failed to adhere to the established process for updating the guidelines.
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