The U.S. Food and Drug Agency is not really a singular agency. In practice, it operates more like five or more “FDAs” — each ...

The new year ushered in a final slate of updates to the federal rules for how hospitals have to disclose their prices, and ...

Sangamo, a gene therapy pioneer, loses a financial lifeline as Pfizer drops a gene therapy program for hemophilia.

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With Donald Trump taking office and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. poised to assume the nation’s top health role, it seems the agency is on the precipice of a big shake-up. Kennedy has floated loosening ...

Through Dec. 20, the FDA approved 50 brand new medicines, defined as proteins, small molecules, or other chemicals this year. That’s 9% fewer than in 2023, but still an impressive tally. In the 2000s, ...

Aletha Maybank, who became the American Medical Association’s first chief equity officer five and half years ago, is leaving ...

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Axsome Therapeutics said it would submit its Alzheimer’s disease treatment for FDA approval despite mixed results from two ...

Although bipartisan legislation to provide Medicare coverage for obesity treatments has circulated in Congress for more than ...