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FDA to replace laid-off employees with contractors, sources say
The contractors would effectively replace most of the work done by more than 50 laid-off federal employees who handled travel ...
RFK Jr. says FDA has become a ‘sock puppet’ in meeting with staff
The HHS secretary suggests that industry has too much sway over regulatory decisions made by the Food and Drug Administration.
RFK Jr. calls FDA a 'sock puppet' for industries in private speech to agency staff
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spent a portion of his speech on Friday to FDA staff deriding their past decisions, at ...
Kennedy Accuses F.D.A. of Drug Industry Influence That Barred Alternative Remedies
The nation’s health secretary addressed agency employees, asking them to shed any corporate influence. But he did not address ...
RFK Jr. Warns FDA Staff of ‘Deep State’ in All-Hands Meeting
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. warned Food and Drug Administration staff about the influence of the “deep state” on the agency in an ...
Ex-FDA Official Is Worried About the FDA’s New “Anti-Vaccine Tone”
Dr. Peter Marks, an ex-FDA vaccine official, is warning of a fundamental change at the agency—where vaccine skepticism now ...
To promote drug safety, FDA to replace animal testing with AI-based experiments, other methods
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is replacing animal testing with human-relevant methods, including artificial ...
Novavax shares tumble after U.S. health secretary raises concerns over COVID shot's efficacy
(Reuters) -Vaccine maker Novavax's shares plunged over 22% on Thursday after Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.
CDC doctor monitoring bad COVID vaccine reactions may have deleted files, alleges Sen. Ron Johnson
Officials at the Department of Health and Human Services have struggled to find records belonging to Dr. Tom Shimabukuro, the ...
Trouble in MAHA Land
They hoped RFK Jr.'s Make America Healthy Again push would help their kids with autism. Then the DOGE cuts started to kick in ...
Reps. Pressley, Brown push FDA to finalize a bill to ban harmful chemical in hair relaxers
U.S. Reps. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., Shontel Brown, D-Ohio, and Nydia Velásquez, D-N.Y., are urging the Food and Drug ...
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FDA guts division that trains staff and health-care professionals on key practices like opioid safety, avoiding drug errors
The Food and Drug Administration has gutted a division responsible for training agency staff and outside health-care professionals on an array of public health, regulation and saf ...