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Extended interview: FDA chief calls warnings on menopause treatments an "American tragedy"

FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary tells CBS News' Norah O'Donnell in an exclusive interview why the agency decided to drop decades-old "black box" warnings on many hormone therapy drugs used for ...

FDA commissioner on growing public mistrust of government health advice

FDA Commissioner Martin Makary discusses vaccine policy, COVID-era decisions and the erosion of trust in government health ...
Uinterview

FDA Approves Nasal Spray Depression Treatment Spravato Based On Club Drug Ketamine

Johnson & Johnson has just been granted FDA approval on a revolutionary new anti-depressant. The new treatment, which is called Spravato (drug name esketamine) is a nasal spray that is meant to ...
Hebdo Ahram

INTERVIEW: FDA leads int'l efforts to harmonise regulatory approaches to generic drugs

Ibrahim also elaborated on her efforts to harmonise generic drugs’ regulations in order to ensure the provision of high standard and affordable drugs — a matter that saves billions of dollars annually ...
Newsweek

DNA Dilemma: The Full Interview With the FDA on DTC Genetic Tests

In an interview yesterday, the FDA made some potentially controversial and confusing statements about consumer genetics, an area it's in the process of deciding how to regulate. I criticize the agency ...
New York Post

Kamala Harris says wrong name for FDA in interview about mifepristone

Vice President Kamala Harris butchered the name for the FDA in an interview about abortion rights that aired Friday. Harris mistakenly said the Federal Drug Administration approved the abortion pill ...
PBS

Extended Interview: FDA Food Protection Head Discusses Food Safety

Dr. David Acheson took on the newly created position of assistant commissioner of food protection at the Food and Drug Administration last month. He was previously the director of the FDA's Office of ...
Medscape

Simvastatin 80 mg: An FDA Expert Interview

In early June 2011, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a drug safety communication on the 80-mg dose of simvastatin because of an increased risk for muscle toxicity. Medscape interviewed ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

Highlights from AP interview with FDA’s Hamburg

Hamburg downplayed suggestions that the agency might remove a heavily criticized painkiller from the market if a harder-to-abuse version becomes available. She said better abuse-deterrent formulas are ...
STAT

‘It’s taken longer than I thought’: A former FDA commissioner on the loosened restrictions on abortion pills

When the Food and Drug Administration lifted some — but not all — of its restrictions on an abortion pill this week, it raised questions about why these rules were there in the first place.
Medscape

Preventing Teen Tobacco Use: An Interview With the FDA

Tobacco is clearly in the news! On February 4, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) launched a major anti-tobacco campaign aimed at teenagers. Teens are the focus of much tobacco advertising and ...