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Pharmalittle: We’re reading about FDA layoffs hurting user fee programs, pharma tariffs, and more
The FDA will remove industry representatives from advisory committees and replace them with patients and caregivers ...
FDA Commissioner Dr. Makary: Science Is Based On Challenging Deeply Held Assumptions Where There's No Good Evidence
SiriusXM 'Megyn Kelly Show,' host Megyn Kelly is joined by FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary to discuss his new policy limiting who can serve as members on FDA advisory committees, his efforts to ...
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Makary says FDA will remove pharma representatives from advisory panels
Makary announced the change during his first interview as commissioner. He spent much of the conversation with Megyn Kelly ...
FDA making plans to end its routine food safety inspections, sources say
Food safety inspections would be left to state and local authorities under the plan being developed by the FDA.
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FDA moves to block biopharma employees from serving on advisory committees
Employees of companies regulated by the FDA—such as pharmas or biotechs—are no longer allowed to serve as members of FDA ...
FDA hiring contractors to replace fired staff who supported safety inspections
When Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced sweeping job cuts at his department last month, he said that safety ...
Drug Development Is Slowing Down After Cuts at the FDA
The agency is missing deadlines and not responding to biotech companies, forcing some to push back clinical trials.
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FDA Moves to Restrict Industry Influence on Advisory Committees
Industry representatives will still be allowed at these meetings, but they will no longer have a spot on the advisory ...
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 ...
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FDA’s Plan to Replace Animal Testing Begins a ‘New Era for Drug Testing,’ says Doctors Group
The nonprofit Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, which promotes the use of human-relevant test methods to replace ...
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Trump's FDA head Marty Makary calls 'soul care' essential to health, warns spiritual needs often 'neglected'
President Donald Trump's newly confirmed Food and Drug Administration Commissioner, Dr. Marty Makary, emphasized that “soul ...
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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 ...