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UCSF professor resigns from Trump’s FDA after right-wing conspiracy theorist calls him ‘leftist saboteur’
Vinay Prasad, a professor who until earlier this year headed a cancer-drugs and health-policy lab at UC San Francisco, ...
FDA vaccine chief leaving agency after less than 3 months
The Food and Drug Administration’s polarizing vaccine chief is leaving the agency after a brief tenure that drew the ire of ...
Trump Straight Up Ignored RFK Jr. to Fire Top Vaccine Regulator
Donald Trump reportedly ignored calls from Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. not to fire the top vaccine official at the Food and Drug Administration after a pressure campaign from far-right ...
FDA chief says NIH ‘brewed up a virus that killed 20 million people’
Commissioner Marty Makary again promoted a conspiracy theory about the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic on Wednesday, ...
Trump FDA Pushes For ‘Gas Station’ Opioid To Be Added To DEA’s Drug Schedule List
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) formally requested for a popular kratom derivative to be classified as a controlled substance Tuesday. The Trump administration’s top health officials said at a ...
Can Boston startup Whoop win its face-off with the FDA?
Whoop is betting on political connections and wellness claims to keep its blood pressure monitoring feature, despite FDA ...