Last Monday, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) finalized 10,000 layoffs across federal health agencies, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH), U.S. Food and Drug ...

Across the country, state and local crime labs are drowning in evidence. From rape kits to drug samples to vials of blood, ...

Organized crime is affecting hospitals in some Mexican states, even taking over operating rooms and emergency rooms and forcing doctors and personnel to treat the wounded.

George Tidmarsh, a Stanford University physician who founded Horizon Pharma and later ran La Jolla Pharma, was named head of ...

George Tidmarsh appointed to lead FDA drug review division amid staffing cuts and scrutiny over accelerated approvals and ...

Food and Drug Administration commissioner Marty Makary has chosen former biotech executive George Tidmarsh as the agency’s ...

An estimated 53 drugs would not enter the market in the next 30 years if the NIH is hit with a permanent 10% budget cut and the FDA experiences a nine-month drug review delay due to staffing cuts, the ...

Potential NIH and FDA cuts could lower the number of new drugs that come to market in the next three decades, according to a ...

The Trump administration’s proposed cuts to medical research and health agencies will curtail the development of promising ...

FDA employees are spooked by increasing political involvement in regulatory decisions, frustrated by the impact of cuts to administrative staff who supported drug reviews and inspections, and fed ...

Beyond staff cuts, the departures of some longtime investigators in recent months have left less experienced people tasked with rooting out dangerous manufacturing practices.