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FDA to replace laid-off employees with contractors, sources say
The contractors would effectively replace most of the work done by more than 50 laid-off federal employees who handled travel ...
Ex-FDA Official Is Worried About the FDA’s New “Anti-Vaccine Tone”
Dr. Peter Marks, an ex-FDA vaccine official, is warning of a fundamental change at the agency—where vaccine skepticism now ...
FDA reverses course on telework after layoffs and resignations threaten basic operations
Weeks after ordering Food and Drug Administration employees back into the office, the agency is reversing course, allowing ...
RFK Jr. calls FDA a 'sock puppet' for industries in private speech to agency staff
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spent a portion of his speech on Friday to FDA staff deriding their past decisions, at ...
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Crucial FDA drug reviews expected to be slowed by job cuts
A former top FDA official said it’s only a matter of time before the chaos at the agency starts to impact drug reviews.
Food Safety Was Slipping in the U.S. Then Came Mass Layoffs
Boar's Head deli meats recall notice at a deli counter in a Queens, New York grocery store.Lindsey Nicholson/UCG/Universal ...
As FDA slashes workforce, number of new medical devices reaching the public has fallen
U.S. Food and Drug Administration approvals of life-changing, high-risk medical devices reportedly slowed to a 10-year low ...
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A running list of senior FDA officials who have left the agency
But the FDA under the new Trump administration is already starting to look dramatically different. It’s hard to keep track of ...