Ousted vaccine official says Kennedy sought data to justify anti-science stance, WSJ reports
Peter Marks, the FDA's top vaccine official ousted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said the U.S. health secretary's team sought ...
Ousted Vaccine Chief Says RFK Jr.’s Team Sought Data to Justify Anti-Science Stance
Peter Marks says the new health secretary’s team wants to show vaccines aren’t safe while promoting dangerous and unproven ...
The Heritage Foundation4hOpinion
For All Its Flaws, American Healthcare Gets a Lot Right
We all know the problems with American healthcare. It costs too much, there are gaps in insurance coverage, healthcare ...
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FDA Gutted Under Trump, RFK Jr., With More Than Half of Senior Leadership Now Gone
While it’s not unusual for certain positions to turn over with a new administration, the number of senior-level FDA staffers ...
Hep B is deadlier for Asian Americans. RFK Jr.’s layoffs could devastate the fight against it
When Wendy Lo was pregnant with her first child, she lost sleep over whether she would transmit her chronic Hepatitis B infection to him. Her doctor reassured her that if they vaccinated him within 24 ...
FDA layoffs could raise drug costs and erode food safety
Trump cutbacks were supposedly aimed at administrators. But scientists in food and drug-testing labs and policy experts who ...
Becker's ASC1d
Trump’s healthcare leadership shakeup: 4 updates for ASCs
The Senate recently confirmed two of ​President Donald Trump’s selections to key healthcare leadership positions, and ...
STAT1d
Pharmalittle: We’re reading about a pharma tariff exception, FDA inspection cutbacks, and more
The Trump administration carved out an exception for pharmaceuticals from the president's new tariff regime, at least for now ...
Medical Marketing & Media1d
HHS layoffs hammer public health agencies, gut federal comms teams
Significant layoffs across the FDA, CDC and NIH are ushering in a new era of public health under the Trump administration.
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FDA Layoffs Will Likely Force Cutbacks In Food And Drug Inspections
CBS reports that roughly 170 workers were laid off from the FDA's Office of Inspections and Investigations. In related FDA news, the pharmaceutical industry is worried about the cuts; layoffs include ...
Opinion
Comment: Drug companies need to speak up about RFK Jr.’s FDA
Over the last two months, the pharmaceutical industry has remained on the sidelines as Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency ...