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FDA Commissioner Marty Makary: Starting Process To Schedule "7-Hydroxymitragynine" Kratom Extract As Dangerous, Illegal Opioid

FDA Commissioner Marty Makary said at a press conference Tuesday that the federal government is beginning to process to ...
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Vinay Prasad, a powerful FDA official, departs after controversy over rare disease drug

Vinay Prasad, a top official at the Food and Drug Administration, has suddenly departed after a series of controversial ...

FDA Commissioner Makary: Ban Targets Synthetic Concentrated 7-OH, Not Naturally Occurring Trace Amounts

FDA Commissioner Marty Makary said at a press conference Tuesday that scheduling "7-Hydroxymitragynine" (7-OH) kratom extract ...

FDA Warns Dangers of Drug “7-OH”

HHS Sec. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), along with FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary, announce new ...
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How the FDA can score quick wins on transparency

Improving how the FDA disseminates already-public information about approved drugs may be unsexy, but it would be a big step ...
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FDA seeks to classify 7-OH as Schedule 1 drug amid addiction concerns

Food and Drug Administrator Commissioner Marty Makary has requested that the Drug Enforcement Administration classify 7-OH as ...

Top FDA vaccine regulator abruptly exits post

DIRECTING A CHANGING CDC — The Senate voted to confirm Susan Monarez as the next CDC director Tuesday, marking an end to the ...

100 days into the job, FDA head talks to CNN about agency goals— and Coke’s switch to sugar

Marty Makary says the FDA will plow ahead with big plans on ultra processed foods, dietary guidelines, and expedited drug and ...

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 ...

FDA recommends 7-OH compound found in vapes be controlled

The U.S. Food and Drug administration is recommending the scheduling of the 7-OH compound as a controlled substance because ...

Watch CNBC's full interview with FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary

FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary joins 'Squawk Box' to discuss his meeting with CEOs of major pharmaceutical and biotech ...
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FDA Moves to Head Off ‘Next Addiction Crisis' by Targeting Synthetic Opioid 7-OH

WASHINGTON - It probably sits waiting, largely unnoticed, on the shelves of every smoke shop, convenience store and gas ...