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FDA: Job cuts at US health agency raises concerns over drug approvals
The US FDA is coping with a series of Trump-imposed job cuts. These are starting to hamper food safety and pharmaceutical ...
FDA Cuts Threaten New Drugs as Reviewers Saddled With Extra Jobs
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s sweeping layoffs across federal health agencies are disrupting the work of drug, ...
FDA to replace laid-off employees with contractors, sources say
The contractors would effectively replace most of the work done by more than 50 laid-off federal employees who handled travel ...
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Canadians could lose vital safety information amid deep cuts to the U.S. FDA, experts warn
The department plans to cut 3,500 jobs directly from the FDA. Elon Musk and DOGE Elon Musk flashes his t-shirt that reads 'DOGE' to the media as he walks on South Lawn of the White House ...
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FDA seeks contractors to replace dozens of feds laid off two weeks ago
About one week after FDA announced a RIF, the agency began drafting a statement of work seeking contractors to do the same ...
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RFK Jr pushes conspiracy theories in FDA speech, prompts staff walkouts
During a speech at the FDA, the HHS secretary accused staff of becoming "sock puppets" of the industry they regulate. Last ...
FDA reverses course on telework after layoffs and resignations threaten basic operations
Weeks after ordering all Food and Drug Administration employees back into the office, the agency is reversing course, ...
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FDA to replace laid-off employees with contractors, sources say
Kennedy Jr.'s sweeping cuts to the ... to take over the job," the official said. The draft documents and emails obtained by CBS News say that the contractors would be given FDA laptops and badges ...
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US federal job cuts reach the FDA, CDC, say reports
Recently hired employees of the FDA and CDC look set to be the latest federal employees to be affected by the sweeping job cuts implemented by the Trump administration on agencies overseen by the ...
RFK Jr., intent to focus on chronic disease, continues to be dogged by impacts of HHS cuts
Far as he was from Washington, D.C., as Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. hiked to the top of a ...
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Massive layoffs at the FDA: Thousands of jobs lost
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) embarks on a significant restructuring, potentially leading to the ...
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RIF job losses are underway at HHS agencies; reports
HHS Secretary Kennedy has said he intends to save $1.8bn per year, thanks to another wave of job cuts affecting the FDA, CDC, NIH, and CMS.