Statement from Governor DeWine on Hydroxychloroquine

(COLUMBUS, Ohio)—Ohio Governor Mike DeWine issued the following statement regarding the new rule issued by the Ohio Board of Pharmacy regarding the use of hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19:

“I agree with the statement from Dr. Steven Hahn, Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, that the decision about prescribing hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19 should be between a doctor and a patient. 

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NIH-Funded Project Creates an Encyclopedia Detailing the Inner Workings of the Human and Mouse Genomes

ENCODE Project’s third phase offers new insights into the organization and regulation of our genes and genome.

The Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) Project(link is external) is a worldwide effort to understand how the human genome functions. With the completion of its latest phase, the ENCODE Project has added millions of candidate DNA “switches” from the human and mouse genomes that appear to regulate when and where genes are turned on, and a new registry that assigns a portion of these DNA switches to useful biological categories.… Read full story