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Around 3,500 FDA employees received termination emails; FDA Commissioner Marty Makary suggests lowering industry user fees ...
FDA Commissioner Marty Makary announced that Dr. George Tidmarsh, a cancer and pediatric specialist, will direct the agency’s ...
George Tidmarsh, a Stanford University physician who founded Horizon Pharma and later ran La Jolla Pharma, was named head of ...
U.S. regulators asked Sarepta Therapeutics on Friday to voluntarily halt shipments of its Elevidys gene therapy after a ...
As the controversy over the safety of Sarepta Therapeutics’ gene therapies comes to a head, the biotech is standing firm ...
Although Sarepta initially appeared to have avoided the worst possible outcome for Elevidys—market withdrawal—thanks to the gene therapy’s new black box warning, the FDA is signaling stronger ...
In the first six months of 2025, 385 employees resigned from the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, compared with under 130 staff during the same period last year.
HHS faces other legal challenges over its workforce cuts. A class-action lawsuit in the U.S. Court for the District of Columbia claims the department relied on “hopelessly error-ridden” data when it ...
U.S. regulators recently asked Sarepta Therapeutics to voluntarily halt shipments of its Elevidys gene therapy after a ...
Some proponents worry they could lose credibility if they are rushed onto the market or are too closely tied to Kennedy.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is planning to request Sarepta Therapeutics to voluntarily stop all shipments of its ...
Sarepta Therapeutics announced it is laying off nearly 500 employees this week, including 80 at its Easton location. According to a mass layoff notice filed with the ...