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FDA planning for fewer food and drug inspections due to layoffs, officials say
Around 170 staff were cut from the FDA's Office of Inspections and Investigations this week as part of wider cuts at U.S.
Mass Layoffs Hit Health Agencies That Track Disease and Regulate Food
The cuts were part of a Trump administration plan announced last week to dismiss thousands of employees and drastically ...
Hope, caution for Washington state patients 'first in line' for new schizophrenia drug
Cobenfy was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in fall 2024 and represents the first novel approach in decades to ...
Millions in the U.S. take this drug. Tariffs might complicate their care.
Heparin is cheap and essential to millions of hospitalized people. Tariffs could disrupt the supply chain that gets ...
FDA layoffs could raise drug costs and erode food safety
Trump cutbacks were supposedly aimed at administrators. But scientists in food and drug-testing labs and policy experts who ...
Top vaccine official resigns from FDA, criticizes RFK Jr. for promoting ‘misinformation and lies’
The top vaccine official with the Food and Drug Administration has resigned and criticized the nation's top health official ...
Trump administration starts mass layoffs at health agencies
The cuts are part of a plan by President Donald Trump and billionaire ally Elon Musk to shrink staffing levels in federal ...
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FDA planning for fewer food and drug inspections due to layoffs, officials say
Alexander Tin is a digital reporter for CBS News based in the Washington, D.C. bureau. He covers federal public health agencies. Senior Food and Drug Administration leaders are planning for ...
Layoffs begin at US health agencies responsible for research, tracking disease and regulating food
Hundreds of employees have wrapped around the U.S. Health and Human Services Department headquarters in Washington, where ...
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The free‑living bureaucrat
a science policy analyst for the Food and Drug Administration's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, at the FDA's Silver Spring, Maryland, campus. (Kent Nishimura/For The Washington Post ...