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Top FDA vaccine regulator returns to agency weeks after firing
The Food and Drug Administration restored a top vaccine regulator to his position at the agency just weeks after firing him.
Vinay Prasad returns to role as top vaccine regulator at FDA days after leaving US agency
Vinay Prasad is returning to his role overseeing vaccine, gene therapy and blood product regulation at the U.S. Food and Drug ...
FDA launches program to encourage American drug manufacturing
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Thursday it is launching "FDA PreCheck" in order to help construct drug ...
Top vaccine regulator returns to FDA after recent firing
Dr. Vinay Prasad is back at the FDA less than two weeks after the White House pressed the head of the agency to remove him from his multiple agency leadership roles, an HHS spokesperson said Saturday.
The shrinking number of advisory committee meetings
FDA Commissioner Marty Makary seems to be shifting traditional advisory committee panels to review and provide ...
FDA Chief Says He Wants Gene Therapy Head Prasad to Return
US Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary said he’s trying to persuade Vinay Prasad, the agency’s former head ...
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Steve Forbes: CMS must cover FDA-approved medical devices and treatments
CMS often withholds coverage for reimbursement, disrupting the natural flow of the market and hindering access to proven ...
FDA regulator reinstalled less than two weeks after White House ouster
Vinay Prasad, the FDA’s top vaccine and gene therapy regulator, was the target of a right-wing pressure campaign over his ...
Vinay Prasad returns to US' FDA, resumes role overseeing vaccine, gene therapy
Vinay Prasad is returning to his role at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, a little more than a week after he had left ...
What is kratom 7-OH? Why RFK and health officials are cracking down
OH, a component of kratom, is an opioid that “can be more potent than morphine,” but it’s readily available over the counter ...
RFK Jr. launches crackdown on kratom — the ‘legal morphine’ substance often found in smoke shop products
They’re gummy bears, they’re bright colors, they’re candy-flavored. This is really a sinister, sinister industry,” the HHS ...
NN: 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, accusing the National Institutes of Health (NIH) of funding the lab that created ...