WASHINGTON — The steady erosion of experienced staff at the Food and Drug Administration is slowly compromising the agency’s ...

Beyond staff cuts, the departures of some longtime investigators in recent months have left less experienced people tasked ...

"Any place that gets cut, it's going to have an impact, because there's not any spare personnel at FDA,” said former agency commissioner Robert Califf, of the layoffs.

Companies that interact with FDA are likely to find that the layoff of 3,500 employees on April 1, 2025, affects their dealings in a variety of ways.

Other agencies are moving forward with RIFs and terminations, but official tells federal court some plans have changed.

Cuts at the FDA are slowing inspections of overseas drug manufacturers, prompting concerns from former and current employees that medication safety could be at risk, ProPublica reported July 7. Dozens ...

The Trump administration launched a sweeping downsizing of federal health agencies this week, with mass layoffs hitting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug […] ...

The Food and Drug Administration is again trying to rehire some staffers who were recently fired amid mass layoffs at the agency. ... GOING TO HAVE A VERY NEGATIVE IMPACT ON THE HEALTH AND ...

But just hours after employees were shown the door, Barclay Butler, the agency’s new chief operating officer, asked top FDA officials to identify employees to keep working for the next two ...

In this week’s edition of InnovationRx, we look at Trump's massive health agency layoffs, Palantir’s trade secret lawsuit, Gather Health’s new primary care model, Airna’s $155 million deal ...

The layoffs will also impact workers in the FDA, which work in all 50 states and internationally to inspect and set safety standards for medications, medical devices, food, cosmetics, emit ...

At the time, the agency said the reductions would not impact inspectors. Kennedy has since announced that HHS would reverse 20% of the cuts across the agency. Amid news reports describing the layoffs ...