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FDA Commissioner Marty Makary announces three new hires in leadership team
The commissioner of the FDA welcomed three new leaders to the agency this week, including a new deputy commissioner.
FDA tobacco official is removed from post in latest blow to health agency’s leadership
The Food and Drug Administration’s chief tobacco regulator has been forced out. Brian King's departure Tuesday comes just ...
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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 ...
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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Former FDA Officials Sound Alarm: Visible Changes May Be ‘Tip of the Iceberg’
In the wake of unprecedented workforce cuts at the FDA, former Commissioner Scott Gottlieb and an unnamed former CBER ...
RFK Jr. unveils plan to phase out 8 artificial food dyes in the US
The Department of Health and Human Services and the Food and Drug Administration announced on Tuesday a series of measures to ...
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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 ...
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FDA's top tobacco official is removed from post in latest blow to health agency's leadership
The latest changes mean that nearly all of FDA’s top leaders overseeing drugs ... who stepped down at the end of the Biden administration. The leadership vacuum comes as Kennedy moves to ...