News

The FDA Boss on the Agency’s MAHA Makeover
Dr. Marty Makary has criticized the Food and Drug Administration for being "captured" by Big Food and Big Pharma. Now, the ...
STAT14h
After ‘conflicting’ signals from FDA, rare disease drugmaker contemplates closure
Stealth BioTherapeutics, which has been developing a rare disease drug, said it is making contingency plans to close the ...
FDA's top vaccine official leaves agency after controversial decisions
Dr. Vinay Prasad, an oncologist who was a fierce critic of COVID vaccine and mask mandates, was appointed in May.
Controversial FDA official Dr. Vinay Prasad departs agency
Dr. Vinay Prasad, the controversial critic of the US Food and Drug Administration who took a top role at the regulatory ...
US FDA's top vaccine official Vinay Prasad leaves agency after 3 months
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's top vaccine official, Vinay Prasad, has left the agency after just three months as ...
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 ...
FDA vaccine chief leaving agency after less than 3 months
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration’s polarizing vaccine chief is leaving the agency after a brief tenure that ...
FDA looking to make vapes less addictive as agency head claims 85% of those sold are ‘illegal’
“First of all, 85 percent of vaping products sold at your local vape shop are illegal,” he told Rob Schmitt Tonight. “These ...
100 days into the job, FDA head talks to CNN about agency goals— and Coke’s switch to sugar
Commissioner Marty Makary says the FDA will plow ahead with big plans on ultra process foods, dietary guidelines and ...
FDA employees say the agency's Elsa generative AI hallucinates entire studies
The federal agency introduced Elsa last month, boasting about the AI tool's ability to increase efficiency at the FDA.
After nearly 1 million deaths, FDA makes move on prescription safety
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is mandating changes to opioid painkiller labels, warning of addiction, overdose and long‑term risks amid a deadly epidemic that has claimed nearly one million ...
Medscape1d
FDA Calls for Better Opioid Safety Labeling
The FDA is requiring opioid pain medication manufacturers to update safety labeling with a stronger emphasis on risks from ...