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The FDA Foundation's Director of Research, Carla Rodriguez-Watson, PhD, MPH, discusses designing clinical studies for diversity and inclusivity in patient selection. Listen to the podcast

Remember the comedy program “Whose Line Is It Anyway,” described by host Drew Carey as the show “where everything’s made up, and the points don’t matter”? Well, the spinoff has now taken shape in Washington, with President Biden at the helm. Read more

The FDA’s independent advisory committee on tobacco products will meet this week for the first time since February 2020.  Read more 

We need to talk about the FDA. In December of 2022 the Reagan-Udall Foundation published their external review of the FDA’s food program. It is important to point out that Regan-Udall is actually the FDA’s Foundation – so if anything, their scathing and…

In July 2022, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner, Dr. Robert Califf, released a public statement saying the agency “has confronted a series of challenges that have tested our regulatory frameworks and stressed the agency’s…

The Biden Administration’s much-trumpeted Cancer Moonshot campaign was launched just over a year ago with the goal of reducing cancer rates by more than 50 percent in the next 25 years. However, considering that The White House has identified almost a…

In the run-up to the 10th Conference of the Parties to the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control in Panama (COP10) this November, public health professionals, industry representatives and policy experts on April 25 shared their insights into issues…

Prior to the early 20th century, America had no regulation of medications or food additives. Formaldehyde was used to preserve meat, morphine was included in infant “soothing syrups,” and marketing, not science, drove the promotion of tonics and…

A long-sought tool in the fight against America’s opioid crisis is becoming available later this year: Narcan, the nasal spray that can stop opioid overdoses as they are happening, will finally be sold over the counter. Read more

AN OVER-THE-COUNTER NASAL spray version of Narcan, the medication used to reverse the effects of an opioid overdose, was officially approved by the Food and Drug Administration today, March 29.  Read more