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FDA CBER, ACA grant impact, cyclosporosis: morning rounds
Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free Morning Rounds newsletter. Register here. Good morning. I dedicate the first article of today’s newsletter to a friend who suffers from what she suspects is cyclosporosis. Please feel free to forward this email to your friends who need information but are afraid […]
FDA, Covid vaccine list, football brain health: morning rounds
Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free Morning Rounds newsletter. Register here. Hello everyone. Now that we’ve all narrowly survived a non-World Cup day at work, we can finally return to our new normal this afternoon for France 3-1 Morocco. A father’s quest to heal his daughter Matt Wilsey […]
FDA and Zyn, Anthropic Claude Science, alcohol consumption: Morning Rounds
Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free Morning Rounds newsletter. Register here. Hi everyone, Sarah is replacing Theresa today. If you’re on the East Coast, how are you preparing for the upcoming heat wave? Send popsicle tips and recipes to [email protected]. How the alcohol industry is putting its politics […]
FDA briefs lawmakers on food safety priorities
WASHINGTON — Food and Drug Administration officials briefed senators on the agency’s food policy plans for 2026, according to a person familiar with the meeting. The agency plans to focus on infant formula safety, updating food labels, defining ultra-processed foods, expanding inspections of food processing plants and strengthening seafood safety programs, according to a document […]
5 lessons from Vinay Prasad’s turbulent tenure at the FDA
Vinay Prasad, head of the Food and Drug Administration, self-destructed last week. The FDA announced Friday evening that he would resign next month after a series of controversial decisions on vaccines and gene therapies. His unique ability to attract criticism – even when his bosses, including the president, wanted him to keep his head down […]
FDA declares Novo Nordisk drug manufacturing plant non-compliant
A troubled contract manufacturing plant in Indiana recently acquired by Novo Nordisk is considered noncompliant with Food and Drug Administration standards, a serious designation that could further delay approval of drugs made at the facility, including some from Scholar Rock and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals. STAT previously reported that an FDA inspection of the plant over the […]
The unusual criticism of the FDA regulator to therapy is stirring Wall Street
Adam Feuerstein is a main writer and biotechnology columnist, reporting on the crossroads of drug development, business, Wall Street and biotechnology. He is also co-host of the weekly biotech podcast The Readout Loud and author of the Biotech dashboard of the Adam newsletter. You can reach Adam on the signal to stataf.54. George Tidmarsh, the […]
Combien la FDA peut-il vraiment freiner les publicités pharmaceutiques?
Cet article est apparu pour la première fois dans la newsletter de votre épidémiologiste local.Les publicités pharmaceutiques aux États-Unis sont ennuyeuses. Absurde. Et presque uniquement américain. En fait, seul un autre pays à revenu élevé dans le monde entier – la Nouvelle-Zélande – permet aux compagnies pharmaceutiques d’ordonnance de faire de la publicité directement aux […]
Vinay Prasad returns to the FDA, weeks after her evidence
Washington – Vinay Prasad returns to the Food and Drug Administration to resume its supervising role the vaccine, gene therapy and the regulation of blood products. “At the request of the FDA, Dr. Vinay Prasad takes over the leadership of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research,” the health and social services spokesman Andrew Nixon […]
7-oh repression of the FDA sons on Kratom
The Trump administration moved Tuesday to add 7-oh, a psychoactive compound derived from the Kratom factory, on the calendar of controlled substances. The movement specifically targets products with high levels of 7-OH, which occurs naturally in the Kratom in quantities of trace. But the Food and Drug Administration stressed in an advertisement that the application […]