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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 Suspends Milk Quality Tests: Report
The Department of Health and Human Services has shed 20,000 jobs so far under Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s leadership.
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Pharmalittle: We’re reading about a Novo challenge to Medicare talks, a scuttled FDA office, and more
Novo Nordisk argues Medicare should negotiate the price for six of its insulin products separately, though they contain the ...
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FDA tech officials complied with DOGE’s requests for data. The staff reductions still came.
Officials at the Food and Drug Administration who spoke to FedScoop believe that information from a recent “data call” on ...
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 ...
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 ...
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FDA reverses course on telework after layoffs and resignations threaten basic operations
The Food and Drug Administration is reversing course on its requirement for all staffers to report to the office WASHINGTON -- Weeks after ordering all Food and Drug Administration employees back ...
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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.
New FDA chief offers support for Kennedy on autism claims, says no more ‘mass cuts’ planned
US Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary suggested in a new interview that autism is caused by a range ...
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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.