Ousted FDA vaccine chief makes plea to families to vaccinate children
Peter Marks, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) vaccine official who resigned last week amid pressure from the Trump administration, urged families to continue vaccinating their children.
Ousted FDA vaccine director calls Kennedy’s start ‘very scary’
Peter Marks, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) official pressured to resign over his disagreements with Health and Human ...
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KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': American health gets a pink slip
The Department of Health and Human Services underwent an unprecedented purge this week, as thousands of employees from the National Institutes of Health, the FDA, the Centers for Disease Control and ...
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 ...
FDA Punts on Major Covid-19 Vaccine Decision After Ouster of Top Official
The agency is sitting on a decision to grant full approval for Novavax’s shot, days after top vaccine regulator pushed out.
Donald Trump fired the man who likely saved his life: Former medical official
Dr. David Kessler, former FDA commissioner and chief science officer of the White House Covid-19 Task Force, talks with ...
Novavax believes BLA ‘ready for approval,’ waiting on action from FDA
Novavax (NVAX) issued the following update on the FDA BLA for the company’s COVID-19 vaccine: “Novavax can confirm that April 1, 2025, was the ...
Inside Trump and RFK Jr.’s Health Agency ‘Bloodbath’
Current and former staffers say that after thousands of people were laid off, the future of agencies like the CDC and FDA are ...
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FDA Removes Top Expert on Vaping and Tobacco
Key Takeaways The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's top tobacco official has been placed on leaveDozens of FDA staff overseeing tobacco policy have also been dismissedExperts predict this will ...
The impact of mass layoffs at HHS: What does it mean for new drugs, food safety?
In every corner of the FDA, and at sister health agencies like the CDC, support staff, specialists, and scientists were hit ...
RFK Jr. purges CDC and FDA's public records teams, despite "transparency" promises
It is unclear what will happen to hundreds of pending requests for public information as the health agencies slash staff.
Widespread job cuts begin at health agencies
The layoffs are the latest indication of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s drastic effort to ...