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FDA Commissioner Makary: Ban Targets Synthetic Concentrated 7-OH, Not Naturally Occurring Trace Amounts

FDA Commissioner Marty Makary said at a press conference Tuesday that scheduling "7-Hydroxymitragynine" (7-OH) kratom extract ...

FDA's Makary wants to increase drug access, reduce 'addictive' foods

FDA Commissioner Marty Makary spoke with Yahoo Finance about solving the food crisis, obesity crisis, and restoring trust in ...

FDA Commissioner Marty Makary: Starting Process To Schedule "7-Hydroxymitragynine" Kratom Extract As Dangerous, Illegal Opioid

FDA Commissioner Marty Makary said at a press conference Tuesday that the federal government is beginning to process to ...
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Trump Overrode RFK Jr. And Makary To Remove FDA Biologics Chief Amid Sarepta Drug Controversy: Report

U.S. President Donald Trump reportedly ordered the removal of Vinay Prasad as director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics ...
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After Prasad’s Ouster, Makary Looks for Better Drug, Biologic Alignment at FDA

The FDA has denied that it plans to combine the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research and Center for Biologics Evaluation ...

FDA commissioner predicts ‘record’ drug approvals this year

FDA Commissioner Marty Makary said the FDA’s review process will not slow down despite layoffs at the Department of Health ...

FDA chief says NIH ‘brewed up a virus that killed 20 million people’

Commissioner Marty Makary again promoted a conspiracy theory about the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic on Wednesday, ...

100 days into the job, FDA head talks to CNN about agency goals— and Coke’s switch to sugar

Marty Makary says the FDA will plow ahead with big plans on ultra processed foods, dietary guidelines, and expedited drug and ...

FDA looking to make vapes less addictive as agency head claims 85% of those sold are ‘illegal’

FDA looking to make vapes less addictive as agency head claims 85% of those sold are ‘illegal’ - FDA Commissioner Marty Makary warns ‘epidemic’ of e-cigarette use in high schools needs to be tackled ...

FDA Chief Marty Makary To Overhaul 1992 Food Pyramid, Slams Carb-Heavy Diet

FDA Commissioner Marty Makary is spearheading a major overhaul of the agency’s dietary guidelines, including rewriting the 1992 food pyramid.
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Vinay Prasad, a powerful FDA official, departs after controversy over rare disease drug

Vinay Prasad, a top official at the Food and Drug Administration, has suddenly departed after a series of controversial ...
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Vinay Prasad is my former student and friend. His departure from FDA is a loss for American medicine

It is hard to imagine someone more equipped and more dedicated to vetting treatments than Vinay Prasad,” writes his former ...