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Helen Branswell

Support workers at #FDA who were laid off earlier this month were told they weren't needed; their work was being done by others at #HHS. Now the agency is finalizing plans to contract out their work, @alexander-a-tin.bsky.social reports. cbsnews.com/news/fda-replace-l

www.cbsnews.comFDA to replace laid-off employees with contractors, sources saySteep cuts to the agency's workforce had disrupted drug and food safety inspections.
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Maggie Maybe

The problem with the WARNING is that because of PBMs these #counterfeit products get distributed by pharmacies.

I don’t remember if it’s retail pharmacies or facility pharmacies where this kept happening, but there was a PBS Frontline documentary about how PBMs cause counterfeit medication to appear in legitimate supply chains.

So how would any of us know??

content.govdelivery.com/accoun

#FDA #recall (sort of)
#PBM #counterfeitMeds #ozempic

U.S. Food and Drug AdministrationFDA MedWatch - FDA Warns Consumers Not to Use Counterfeit Ozempic (semaglutide) Found in U.S. Drug Supply Chain
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Kim Perales

The Trump regime is actively trying to🚨hurt the American ppl. #FDA this wk: it’d stop requiring drugmakers to use animal testing & instead permit AI. I don’t want a robot to tell me whether a drug is going to hurt, maim or kill me. I want a human being to make that judgment based on human science.

There’re things that all of us have taken for granted: food inspection, AQ control, drug safety, deposit INSUR… -never had to think about them.
#Sabotage #PublicSafety #USPol
editorialboard.com/do-liberals

The Editorial Board. · Do liberals still trust the government?The weekend edition of the Editorial Board.
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Brittany Trang

If it's been too overwhelming to read every single thing about what's happening at federal health agencies, this piece from ten (10!) of my @STAT colleagues gives you an overview of what's happened and how bad it is:

“We are really trying to hold things together with our bare hands,” said one employee.

statnews.com/2025/04/11/hhs-la

STAT · Inside U.S. health agencies, workers confront chaos and questions as operations become ungluedThe Trump administration’s remaking of HHS — in a matter of weeks — is sparking basic questions about how parts of the agency and those it oversees can continue to function.
#health#healthcare#hhs
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Bích-Mây Nguyễn :verified:

"When asked by LaPook if he personally approved the more than $11 billion proposed in cuts to local and state programs that address infectious disease, mental health, addiction and childhood vaccination, Kennedy said, 'No I'm not familiar with those cuts. We'd have to go … the cuts were mainly DEI cuts, which the president ordered.'"

cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-sweepi

www.cbsnews.comRFK Jr. says he's "not familiar" with all health program cuts in exclusive interviewHealth and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. addressed health program cuts and the measles vaccine in his first network TV interview since joining the Trump administration.
#healthcare#HHS#FDA
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petersuber

Update. "Marks Says He Was Forced Out of #FDA for Trying to Protect #Vaccine Safety #Data"
medpagetoday.com/publichealthp

"Shortly before he was forced to resign, the nation's top vaccine regulator says he refused to grant #HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s team unrestricted access to a tightly held vaccine safety database, fearing that the information might be manipulated or even deleted."

www.medpagetoday.comMarks Says He Was Forced Out of FDA for Trying to Protect Vaccine Safety DataTop vaccine regulator denied RFK Jr. full access to and editing of safety database
#Censorship#DefendResearch#Medicine
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Bích-Mây Nguyễn :verified:

"The complaints come as the Trump administration is dismantling wide swaths of the federal government — including conducting mass layoffs at the FDA — and filling some key regulatory positions with industry-friendly voices. The new head of the FDA division that oversees baby formula is a corporate lawyer who previously defended Abbott against a lawsuit."

propublica.org/article/baby-fo

ProPublicaUnsanitary Practices Persist at Baby Formula Factory Whose Shutdown Led to Mass Shortages, Workers Say
More from ProPublica
#PublicHealth#formula#infants
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beSpacific

#FDA #Layoffs Could Raise #Drug Costs and Erode Food Safety No mission, no research, no science, no knowledge. #FDA is eviscerated. In many areas of the #FDA, no #employees remain to process payroll, to file #retirement or layoff paperwork and to help overseas #inspectors who are at risk of maxing out agency credit cards. Even the agency’s #library where researchers and experts relied on medical journal subscriptions that have now been canceled, has been shut down. archive.is/NBha8

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