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.

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 ...

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

Staffing cuts affecting thousands of employees at the Food and Drug Administration could endanger the agency's ability to protect Americans’ health, according to former top FDA officials and ...

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 […] ...

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 ...

There were exceptions to the mass layoffs of FOIA employees, however. The cuts at FDA spared at least some workers furnishing records in response to court orders in FOIA lawsuits involving the ...

In total, the layoffs, part of the agency restructuring plan publicly announced late last week, are anticipated to impact as many as 10,000 staffers. The layoffs will touch every aspect of the agency.