Reputation (FDA’s Version)—Asterisk

Can the agency that invented modern drug development survive so many assaults on its reputation? A former FDA insider reads an 800-page book to find out.

Reputation (FDA’s Version)—Asterisk Can the agency that invented modern drug development survive so many assaults on its reputation? A former FDA insider reads an 800-page book to find out. Today the FDA finds itself in one of the greatest crises in its 100+ year history. It has lost an estimated 15% of its employees to seemingly arbitrary staff cuts, and many of its most experienced leaders have departed. The Department of Health and Human Services is now led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an FDA skeptic who has openly expressed his distrust for the agency and its employees. The FDA’s own politica

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