Commissioner Marty Makary says the FDA will plow ahead with big plans on ultra process foods, dietary guidelines and ...

Loss of support staff has slowed critical investigations of drug manufacturers. Little relief has materialized.

The investigative unit, which looks into potential safety issues with drugs, vaccines, medical devices, and other products, has had a retention problem for years. Inspectors leave so often that, even ...

Policy FDA layoffs could compromise safety of medications made at foreign factories, inspectors say Beyond staff cuts, the departures of some longtime investigators in recent months have left less ...

Cuts at the FDA are slowing inspections of overseas drug manufacturers, prompting concerns from former and current employees that medication safety could be at risk, ProPublica reported July 7. Dozens ...

STAT spoke with 15 employees across the agency’s drug, device, biologics, and food centers on how the FDA has functioned since the April 1 layoffs, which coincided with the start of FDA ...

In last week’s Supreme Court ruling, the justices allowed federal agencies to proceed with their reduction-in-force, or RIF, ...

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 ...

Thousands of employees across HHS were terminated Monday evening after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last week that the Trump ...