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FDA Commissioner Marty Makary announced that Dr. George Tidmarsh, a cancer and pediatric specialist, will direct the agency’s ...
Tidmarsh, who has founded and served as CEO of several biotech companies, will lead a crucial FDA division that reviews the ...
Beyond staff cuts, the departures of some longtime investigators in recent months have left less experienced people tasked ...
The president's proposed budget cuts to the NIH would eventually result in fewer drugs on the market, the U.S. Congressional ...
Around 3,500 FDA employees received termination emails; FDA Commissioner Marty Makary suggests lowering industry user fees ...
"ICE will now become the country’s largest federal law enforcement agency, bigger than the FBI, bigger than the DEA," former ...
In a highly unusual move, Cambridge-based Sarepta said late Friday won’t comply with a request from the Food and Drug ...
In the first six months of 2025, 385 employees resigned from the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, compared with under 130 staff during the same period last year.
Cuts at the FDA are slowing inspections of overseas drug manufacturers, prompting concerns from former and current employees that medication safety could be at risk, ProPublica reported July 7. Dozens ...
HHS faces other legal challenges over its workforce cuts. A class-action lawsuit in the U.S. Court for the District of Columbia claims the department relied on “hopelessly error-ridden” data when it ...
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is laying off certain employees who were notified months ago of the ...