5 d. ago Trump’s FDA pick made his name by bashing the medical establishment. Soon he may be leading it

Food and Drug Administration nominee Dr. Marty Makary is known for his contrarian views and fiery criticism of traditional medical institutions

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1 week ago The Latest: Musk renews threat to fire federal workers despite pushback from various agencies

Elon Musk is vowing yet again to fire any federal workers who don’t respond to an email asking them to list five things they accomplished last week

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1 week ago FDA moves to rehire medical device staffers fired only days earlier

The Food and Drug Administration is reinstating some of the hundreds of staffers it fired last week

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2 w. ago CDC vaccination committee meeting postponed days after RFK Jr. took over at HHS

A panel of experts that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on vaccine policy will not meet as previously scheduled next week

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2 w. ago FDA scientists told ‘woman’ and ‘disabled’ are on Trump’s banned word list

A federal health agency was told to remove words such as gender, transgender, LGBT and nonbinary from communications

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2 w. ago The 'loony' Lucy Letby supporters who think the nurse is innocent are wasting their time

What a turnaround. Until recently, those who believe Lucy Letby is innocent had no truck with boffins and eggheads from the medical establishment. They preferred to do their own research.

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3 w. ago British professor makes ‘thrilling’ breakthrough for cancer that killed his mother

Paul Workman has researched untreatable chordoma for years. Now new technology points towards to a potential drug to beat itProfessor Paul Workman was 37 and already well established as a medical researcher when his mother, Ena, died of a rare bone cancer known as chordoma. About one in a million people are affected by the condition, which is untreatable.“It was utterly frustrating,” said Workman, who later became head of the Centre for Cancer Drug Discovery and then chief executive of the Institute of Cancer Research, London. “Thirty-six years ago, there was little we could do to treat chordoma. There was little understanding of the disease and no drugs were available to help my mother.” Continue reading...

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