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Eli Lilly to Buy Gene Therapy Firm Verve in $1 Billion Deal to Develop Heart Drug
The deal, announced June 17, includes a cash offer of $10.50 per share for all outstanding Verve stock. Lilly may also pay as ...
New FDA Chief Wants to Fast-Track Some Drugs, Use More AI
FDA Commissioner Marty Makary faces declining staff morale as he remakes the agency.
ProPublica Sued the FDA for Withholding Records About the Safety of Generic Drugs
The agency declined to quickly release documents that would identify drugs made at some of the most troubled foreign ...
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Psychedelics proponents hope Trump administration will foster a new era
HHS secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. declared that the FDA’s “suppression of psychedelics” was about to end. Now he and his ...
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Here’s what food and drug regulation might look like under the Trump administration
Leaders of the FDA have published a list of new priorities for the agency. They want to deliver rapidly-approved cures and ...
Kraft Heinz, General Mills to remove artificial dyes from food products over next 2 years
Kraft Heinz announced on Tuesday that it would be removing artificial food dyes from its products within the next two years.
A drug for extreme hunger offers clues to obesity's complexity
Ali Foley Shenk still remembers the panic when her 10-year-old son, Dean, finished a 20-ounce box of raisins in the seconds ...
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The FDA Is Already Outsourcing Drug and Food Analysis to Error-Plagued AI Chatbot
In case you haven't had enough artificial intelligence, the US Food and Drug Administration is now outsourcing its oversight ...