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US FDA suspends food safety quality checks after staff cuts
The Food and Drug Administration is suspending a quality control program for its food testing laboratories as a result of ...
US FDA limits industry employees from roles in its advisory committees
U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Martin Makary announced on Thursday a policy to limit employees of companies ...
FDA reverses course on telework after layoffs and resignations threaten basic operations
Weeks after ordering all Food and Drug Administration employees back into the office, the agency is reversing course, ...
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FDA to replace laid-off employees with contractors, sources say
The Food and Drug Administration is finalizing plans to ... The contractors would effectively replace most of the work done by more than 50 laid-off federal employees who handled travel logistics ...
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FDA Drug Inspections Post–Workforce Reductions: Potential Implications and Practical Steps Forward
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is confronted with significant challenges in its inspection processes due to recent layoffs. Among ...
Mass layoffs hit workers at HHS; sweeping cuts extend to CDC, NIH, FDA: Recap
Layoffs of 10,000 Health and Human Services employees begin. Agencies devoted to seniors, minorities and HIV prevention ...
F.D.A. 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 ...
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Administration Lays Out Drug Pricing Plan Through Executive Order
Many of the directions included in the order will be familiar to those who watched drug pricing policy closely during the ...
HHS Systems Are in Danger of Collapsing, Workers Say
The purging of IT and cybersecurity staff at the Department of Health and Human Services could threaten the systems used by ...
Daily Pill May Work as Well as Ozempic for Weight Loss and Blood Sugar
Eli Lilly said clinical results of its GLP-1 in pill form showed safety and efficacy data similar to blockbuster injectable ...