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Food and Drug Administration staff cuts may hinder US biomedical innovation
The elimination of 3,500 full-time employees at the FDA risks undermining the very innovation and domestic capacity the ...
FDA approves the world’s only twice-a-year shot to prevent HIV
While a vaccine to prevent HIV still is needed, some experts say the shot — a drug called lenacapvir — could be the next best ...
The FDA Just Approved a Long-Lasting Injection to Prevent HIV
Clinical trials have shown that six-monthly injections of lenacapavir are almost 100 percent protective against becoming ...
FDA announces sweeping changes to speed up the drug review process
An FDA pilot program, known as the Commissioner’s Priority Voucher program, could drastically change the way pharmaceutical ...
Diego Luna says he was only offered drug dealer roles before “Star Wars”: 'I could be the nice drug dealer and not the vicious one'
"...but still a drug dealer." Diego Luna opened up about being typecast in Hollywood before he arrived in a galaxy far, far ...
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FDA Approves PrEP Drug Requiring Only Two Injections Per Year
Like other PrEP drugs, if enough of the medication is present when a person is exposed to HIV, it can prevent the virus from ...
The Trump Peace Prize? Matt Gaetz suggests renaming honor ‘they only give to liberals’
Gaetz, who withdrew as Trump’s pick for U.S. attorney general amid sex trafficking and drug allegations, suggested the honor ...
Threat in your medicine cabinet: The FDA’s gamble on America’s drugs
The FDA didn’t routinely test the medications for quality problems or use its vast repository of drug-related complaints to proactively track whether they were harming the people who relied on them.
We Spent a Year Investigating How the FDA Let Risky Drugs Into the U.S. Market
Our investigation exposed a little-known practice inside the FDA that allowed more than 150 drugs or their ingredients into the U.S. over the past dozen years even though they were made at factories ...