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Vanda sues FDA over hearing delay as agency points to mass layoffs, other litigation with the biopharma
Vanda Pharmaceuticals is suing the FDA again, this time alleging the agency is unlawfully delaying a hearing to discuss the ...
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Top leaders at FDA marketing overseer resign, potentially teeing up RFK Jr.’s promised drug ad ban: report
The two highest-ranking leaders within the FDA’s Office of Prescription Drug Promotion (OPDP) have stepped down, according to ...
FDA hiring contractors to replace fired staff who supported safety inspections
The Food and Drug Administration is scrambling to hire contractors to replace fired employees who helped plan thousands of ...
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FDA to replace laid-off employees with contractors, sources say
The move appears to contradict what laid-off workers supporting FDA's Office of Inspections and Investigations had been told in their layoff notices: that they were being let go because their work ...
FDA’s Drug Office Handling Disputes, Complaints Goes Dark (1)
The FDA’s office that investigates complaints and disputes between reviewers and the drug industry is currently unavailable following US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s massive layoffs across ...
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FDA Reverses Office Order, Lets Staff Work From Home
THURSDAY, April 10, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- Weeks after ordering staff back to the office, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is now letting some employees work from home again.
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With Dr. Marty Makary in power, the FDA’s future comes slightly more into view
Following massive layoffs and cuts at the FDA, Makary’s plan for the agency is yet to fully unfold. But he has hinted at what ...
Politico9d
The FDA fired its tobacco enforcers. Now it wants them back.
The Food and Drug Administration earlier this month fired dozens of staffers responsible for going after retailers who illegally sell tobacco to minors. Now it’s begging them to come back.
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 Reverses Office Order, Lets Staff Work From Home
The FDA will now allow review staff and supervisors to work remotely at least twice weekly after a recent return to office order.