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On top of that, the HHS has been ordered to reduce spending on contracts
The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has ordered to cut 35% of spending on contracts. The cuts apply to all divisions of HHS, which include the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration and other agencies. “These spending cuts will weaken public health in…
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There have been a lot of firings at federal health agencies
The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has fired over 100 executives at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), according to Nature. The firings include several NIH directors as well as executives at the Food and Drug Administration. “These reductions in the workforce will have a profound impact on key NIH administrative functions…[and]…will…
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Why is she in pain now that her disease has been cured?
US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved two gene therapy treatments for sickle-cell disease last year, including the first CRISPR-based genome-editing therapy the agency has ever authorized. Both stem-cell transplants and gene therapy require chemotherapy before the treatment. Three rounds of chemotherapy and other treatments drove her cancer into remission, but she still struggles with…
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Is Obesity a Disease? It isComplicated in the Age of Ozempic
James Chen, a scientist from UT Southwestern Medical Center, US, has been awarded the Lasker Award for Medical Science for his work on obesity drugs. He was recognised for discovering how DNA triggered immune and inflammatory responses. In 2010, the US Food and Drug Administration had approved the first long-lasting GLP-1-based drugs, for type 2…
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The FDA approves new Covid Vaccines
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved new COVID-19 vaccines that are more focused on the circulating variant of the coronavirus. The agency said that the vaccines should be used to boost immunity against the KP.2 strain which is a descendant of the JN.1 variant. The last version of the COVID-19 vaccine was…
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The FDA reviewed MDMA for treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
A US advisory panel to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said that the available evidence doesn’t show that MDMA therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is effective. It also said that its benefits outweigh its risks. There are two FDA-approved PTSD treatments for the condition, one of which is MDMA.
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There are consequences for every drug in the abortion pill case
anti- abortion doctors are challenging the US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) actions to makeabortion pills more accessible. “It would be traumatizing to the system,” said Marsha Henderson, a former FDA associate commissioner for women’s health and a 22-year Veteran of the agency. The FDA had made it easier for women to access abortion pills…
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A pig transplant was done for the first time
A pig kidney was transplanted into a human using gene-edited pigs for compassionate use in the US. The transplant of the pig kidney was made possible by Food and Drug Administration as part of a “compassionate use” program aimed at helping desperate patients. Luhan Yang, CEO of China’s Qihan Biotech which is developing gene-edited pigs…
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Soon, the first over-the-counter birth control pill will be available in the US
The US’ Food and Drug Administration has approved an over-the-counter birth control pill called ‘Opill’ to be sold without a doctor’s prescription. It is the first non-prescription birth control drug to be approved for use without a doctor’s prescription. It was approved by the FDA last year after the US Supreme Court ruled that women…
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It was the first Crispr Medicine to get approved
US’ Food and Drug Administration approved Crispr Therapeutics’ experimental vaccine Casgevy for the treatment of sickle Cell disease, a blood disorder that causes uncontrollable blood clotting. It is the first-ever “gene therapy” to have been approved for use by the US. According to the company’s preliminary results, 90% of patients didn’t require a red-blood-cell transfusion…
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The FDA approved a weight loss drug
US’ Eli Lilly has received Food and Drug Administration’s approval to sell its weight-loss medication Zepbound. The drug is designed to be given at the highest dose of 15 milligrams per day. In a study, people who took it lost an average of 48 pounds, compared to a placebo group’s loss of 22 pounds. Over…
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Meet the first responders of the boom
US’ Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued guidance for designing clinical trials of psychedelic therapies. It said that clinical trials have yet to answer several questions about efficacy, the safety of long-term repeat and optimal psychotherapy protocols. The FDA added that clinical trials have yet to answer questions about efficacy, the safety of long-term…
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Some two-thirds of people don’t want to ban medication abortion
An NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll has found that majorities of Americans oppose laws banning medication-induced abortions, disagree with judges overturning the Food and Drug Administration approval of prescription drugs, and don’t have much confidence in the US Supreme Court. The finding come as the Supreme Court left in place access to the drug mifepristone, used in…
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The Supreme Court does not allow abortion pill access to be denied
The US Supreme Court on Thursday stayed a lower court judge’s order that banned the sale of Mifeprex, the generic form of mifepristone, pending its ruling. Danco Laboratories, manufacturer of Mifeprex, had sued the US Food and Drug Administration after it refused to allow it to manufacture and sell the drug. However, the court stayed…
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The Supreme Court is going to make it easier for women to get the abortion pill
US President Joe Biden has said that he continues to stand by the US Food and Drug Administration’s decision to approve the drug mifepristone, which is used in abortions, for sale. “I will continue to defend FDA’s independent, expert authority to review, approve, and regulate a wide range of prescription drugs,” Biden added.
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If the medication abortion case is successful, then it could set up another high-profile Supreme Court ruling
The US Food and Drug Administration has said a judge’s ruling revoking its approval of the abortion pill mifepristone could be the most consequential abortion decision since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Separately, the pill- manufacturer Danco said the judge’s “relentlessly one-sided narrative” never mentions the millions of women who have benefitted from the…
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The judge’s ruling against the abortion pill was filled with activists’ language
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has said a federal judge’s order temporarily blocking the use of the abortion drug mifepristone should be put on hold. US District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk ruled last week that the FDA had failed to evaluate the drug’s potential harms. Danco, an abortion drug maker, said that Kacsmaryk’s narrative…
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Nancy Mace thinks the FDA should not have suspended the approval of abortion drugs
A US federal judge on Friday said the Food and Drug Administration didn’t properly approve a drug which has been used for 20 years for medical abortions. Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk said the FDA had failed to consider “the intense psychological trauma and post-traumatic stress women often experience from chemical abortion”. The drug has been used…
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It’s possible to have medication abortion with one drug
The US Food and Drug Administration has appealed a federal court’s ruling suspending the approval of the medication abortion drug mifepristone. The court’s ruling comes after a group of anti-abortion organisations and physicians sought to overturn FDA’s approval of the drug in 2000, arguing that the drug is unsafe. It could lead to mifepristone being…
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I worked at F.D.A and the abortion pill decision is dangerous
The US government on Monday asked a federal judge in Texas to delay his order that halted the use of abortion drug misoprostol. The US Food and Drug Administration had approved Mifepristone, also known as RU-486, for use in women’s abortions in the country 23 years ago. However, the judge had said Mifepristone couldn’t be…
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Mifepristone is used for abortion
A US judge ruled that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cannot ban the use of the abortion drug mifepristone. Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk said it’s not clear if a woman would need to have a surgical abortion after taking mifepristone, the second-best-selling abortion drug in the country. The FDA has been criticised for its inaction…
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3 states struck deals to stock up on abortion pill
Texas US Representative Adrian Gonzales has said that he can’t keep the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) away. He made the statement in response to a Republican lawmaker who asked him what he could do to keep the FDA away. This comes after a federal judge ruled that the FDA made a mistake when…
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The judge’s order may make abortion pill unavailable Friday
The US Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar has said women’s medication would be safe and effective after the government launched a legal appeal to stop the suspension. A Texas judge ruled on Friday that the Food and Drug Administration should not have approved the abortion-inducing pill in the first place and a Washington…
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The Texas judge’s abortion ruling could hurt Republicans
A US judge has ruled that the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the abortion-inducing medication mifepristone is invalid. “The court has concluded that the [FDA’s] approval of mifepristone isn’t consistent with the science,” the judge said. The FDA had approved the two-drug regimen to end pregnancies up to 10 weeks gestational age, but the…
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I used to work at the F.D.A. The Abortion Pill decision is dangerous
Texas Republican Representative Tony Gonzales said that his party could use its House Majority to punish the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) if the agency took such a step. His comment comes after a US federal judge in Texas invalidated the FDA’s approval of mifepristone, a medication used safely by hundreds of thousands of women…