HHS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Anonymous reporting led to an ‘inaccurate’ story about federal funding of controversial fetal tissue research, the US Department of Health and Human Services said Wednesday [12-5-18]. HHS’s National Institutes of Health has made no decision on whether to extend a University of California, San Francisco contract for controversial research involving fetal tissue, said Caitlin Oakley, a spokeswoman for HHS. Her statement contradicts Washington Post reporting Tuesday that the ‘Trump administration has thrown into doubt a multimillion-dollar research contract’ with UCSF to test new treatments for HIV. Claire Doan, a spokeswoman for the University of California Office of the President, verified that the university ‘conducts research using fetal tissue that is vital to finding treatments and cures for a wide variety of adult and childhood diseases and medical conditions.’ According to the Post, an anonymous source said a National Institutes of Health official told a UCSF investigator that the decision to end a seven-year contract before its completion was coming from the ‘highest levels.'”
–Susan Scutti, “HHS contradicts reports on fetal tissue research contract,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, December 5, 2018 9:57 am