WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 -- Department Of Health And Human Services has issued a rule called: Terminating National Institutes of Health Minority Biomedical Research Support Program and Rescinding the Program's Related Regulation.

The rule was published in the Federal Register on Aug. 26 by Robert F. Kennedy, Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Summary: The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), in consultation with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), is repealing the regulation relating to the Minority Biomedical Research Support (MBRS) program in compliance with Executive Order (E.O.) 14173 ( Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity) and E.O. 14151 ( Ending Radical and Wasteful Gove...