US Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Robert Califf’s evidence generation enhancement plans will include the National Institutes of Health, assuming that agency’s new leader takes office.
Eleven organizations that work closely with the Food and Drug Administration are asking bipartisan congressional leaders to work with them on “several pressing food safety issues this year.”
The FDA Foundation's Director of Research, Carla Rodriguez-Watson, PhD, MPH, discusses designing clinical studies for diversity and inclusivity in patient selection.
Remember the comedy program “Whose Line Is It Anyway,” described by host Drew Carey as the show “where everything’s made up, and the points don’t matter”? Well, the spinoff has now taken shape in Washington, with President Biden at the helm.
The FDA’s independent advisory committee on tobacco products will meet this week for the first time since February 2020.
We need to talk about the FDA. In December of 2022 the Reagan-Udall Foundation published their external review of the FDA’s food program. It is important to point out that Regan-Udall is actually the FDA’s Foundation – so if anything, their scathing and highly critical report is even more credible.
In July 2022, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner, Dr. Robert Califf, released a public statement saying the agency “has confronted a series of challenges that have tested our regulatory frameworks and stressed the agency’s operations.”
The Biden Administration’s much-trumpeted Cancer Moonshot campaign was launched just over a year ago with the goal of reducing cancer rates by more than 50 percent in the next 25 years. However, considering that The White House has identified almost a third of cancer deaths in the United States are caused by smoking, progress will depend heavily on good tobacco control policy.
In the run-up to the 10th Conference of the Parties to the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control in Panama (COP10) this November, public health professionals, industry representatives and policy experts on April 25 shared their insights into issues relating to tobacco harm reduction (THR) and sustainability as part of the GTNF’s IN FOCUS online series.
Prior to the early 20th century, America had no regulation of medications or food additives. Formaldehyde was used to preserve meat, morphine was included in infant “soothing syrups,” and marketing, not science, drove the promotion of tonics and medications.
