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FDA plans to phase out animal testing in drugs in what it calls a ‘paradigm shift’
The move comes after lawmakers sought to force the agency to update regulations that would allow alternatives to animal ...
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Physicians Committee Applauds FDA Commissioner Makary’s Leadership on Phasing Out Animal Testing in Favor of Human-Relevant Methods
The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, a nonprofit that advocates for nonanimal science, is applauding the new ...
‘Paradigm shift’: FDA plans to phase out animal testing in drugs
On Thursday, shares in Charles River Laboratories, a leading contract research organizations that has stirred controversy ...
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FDA plans to phase out animal testing for some drugs
The initiative, which will start with monoclonal antibodies, is the first big regulatory shift from the FDA since Martin ...
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 ...
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RFK Jr.’s Purge of FOIA Staff at FDA Spares People Working on Covid Vaccine Lawsuits
A purge of FDA staff spared some people tasked with responding to a judge’s orders to disclose government records on covid ...
FDA says it will phase out animal testing requirement for monoclonal antibodies and drugs
The US Food and Drug Administration announced Thursday that it will be phasing out a requirement that monoclonal antibodies ...
Guest column: Assault on National Institutes of Health, higher education must stop
William Stafford Noble, a Naperville native and professor of genome sciences at the University of Washington, urges the ...
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 ...
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Alina Selyukh
health care policy and the Food and Drug Administration, and a bit of financial markets and IPOs. Previously, Selyukh reported for CNN in Moscow, ABC News in Nebraska, and NationalJournal.com in ...
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Consumer sparks debate over health risks of common food product: 'Question and be skeptical'
"Dangerous is subjective." Consumer sparks debate over health risks of common food product: 'Question and be skeptical' first ...
Scholars, groups sue Trump administration over canceled NIH research funding
A public health association and one of the nation’s largest worker unions are suing the Trump administration over the abrupt ...