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FDA Head Marty Makary on Food Dyes, Ultra-Processed Foods and the MAHA Agenda

The Food and Drug Administration commissioner reveals what health officials are prioritizing in a forthcoming report on ...

Lawmakers press FDA to target knockoff weight-loss drug

Dozens of lawmakers are urging US health regulators to crack down on the booming market for knockoff weight-loss drugs amid ...

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

Commissioner Marty Makary says the FDA will plow ahead with big plans on ultra process foods, dietary guidelines and ...

LI drug treatment experts, veterans advocates divided over psychedelic treatment

The administration said it is fast-tracking clinical trials that would allow patients struggling with serious mental health ...

Houston-based Empower Pharmacy's drugs raised red flags for FDA and other states, but not Texas

Empower Pharmacy, a Houston-based compounding pharmacy, has been sanctioned by the FDA and other states in the past decade.

EU regulator green lights an injectable HIV drug that could help stop transmission

The European Medicines Agency has recommended authorizing a twice-yearly injectable drug to prevent HIV. Scientists say this ...
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FDA 'rewriting' food pyramid guidelines

U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary said he is focused on overhauling long-held standards and ...

FDA names former pharmaceutical company executive to oversee US drug program

FDA Commissioner Marty Makary announced that Dr. George Tidmarsh, a cancer and pediatric specialist, will direct the agency’s ...
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An unusual FDA panel on antidepressant use during pregnancy elevated skeptics of the drugs

An unusual FDA panel on antidepressant use during pregnancy elevated clinicians and researchers who are deeply skeptical of ...
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Trump administration to define ultra-processed foods

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins and Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary are planning to develop a “single ...

Biotech exec George Tidmarsh picked as FDA's chief drug regulator

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration named ex-biotech exec George Tidmarsh as its chief drug regulator. FDA Commissioner ...
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FDA Commissioner: No ‘preconceived plans’ on policy changes for abortion drug

Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary said he has “no preconceived plans” to change the policies on mifepristone, an abortion pill that ends pregnancy before 10 weeks, in an interview ...