FDA 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 advance generic drug approvals were also dismissed.
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Trump cutbacks were supposedly aimed at administrators. But scientists in food and drug-testing labs and policy experts who advance generic drug approvals were also dismissed.
The reorganization that began on Tuesday will scale back an agency that has been a public health model around the world.
Xaviaer DuRousseau once marched in Black Lives Matter protests. Then he started watching PragerU videos — and they resonated with him.
Dr. Peter Marks, a veteran of the agency, wrote that undermining confidence in vaccines is irresponsible and a danger to public health.
The health secretary announced the change to the benefit known as SNAP in an appearance in West Virginia, which is also the first state to ban most artificial dyes in food.
David Geier has been hired as a senior data analyst at H.H.S. According to several people, he will examine any potential links between vaccines and autism that were debunked long ago.
The layoffs are part of a major restructuring at the health department, which now employs about 82,000 people.
Federal officials cited the end of the Covid-19 pandemic in halting the research. But much of the work was focused on preventing outbreaks of other pathogens.
A donor network co-founded by Vice President JD Vance is set to host Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Scott Bessent, Tulsi Gabbard and Steve Witkoff.
Public health leaders are horrified by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s approach to measles, but government and industry are responding to him.