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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 ...
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Five priorities to remake the FDA in a time of deep uncertainty
Two former FDA leaders look at Commissioner Marty Makary’s early stumbles — and lay out a list of priorities to protect both ...
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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 ...
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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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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 commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Marty Makary, MD, MPH, ...
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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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How bad is it? RFK Jr.’s extinction-level threat to science-based federal health policy and public health is here
I called RFK Jr. an "extinction-level" threat to US biomedical science and public health. That extinction is under way.
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RFK Jr. spills on ‘deep state,’ calls FDA ‘a sock puppet’ of industry in face of anonymous attack
HHS Sec. RFK Jr.'s callout of the deep state to "sock puppet" FDA met with anonymous allegations of walkouts and use of a derogatory term.
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Kennedy Gives FDA Staff Earful
Addressing an FDA staff whose morale already has plunged because of thousands of layoffs, Health and Human Services Secretary ...
RFK Jr. drops slur in 40-minute tirade that made staffers leave
During his visit to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. delivered a ...
Kennedy tells FDA employees that 'the Deep State is real': report
HHS Secretary Kennedy reportedly told FDA employees on Friday that "the Deep State" is real and that the agency had become a ...
RFK Jr. Warns FDA Staff of ‘Deep State’ in All-Hands Meeting
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. warned Food and Drug Administration staff about the influence of the “deep state” on the agency in an ...