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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.

alojapan.com/1247040/gov-wes-m Gov. Wes Moore’s sales pitch in Tokyo is turning a few heads #AutofocusEyewear #FDA #Gov.WesMoore #InnovationAward #maryland #news #startup #Tokyo #TokyoNews #ViXion #東京 #東京都 Taku Nonaka doesn’t see much of a choice for his Tokyo-based technology company, ViXion: He must expand to the United States. But even after winning an innovation award at the annual CES tech conference in Las Vegas for ViXion’s “autofocus eyewear” — glasses that use a s…

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

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.

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.

"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

#healthcare#HHS#FDA