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This woman was prescribed antidepressants. She was in menopause and needed another drug.
Her doctor prescribed an antidepressant, even though the then 36-year-old insisted she wasn’t depressed. She even went to ...
Cane sugar: What is it, and where can you already find it?
Coca-Cola made a major announcement — or rather, confirmed an announcement made by President Donald Trump last week — that it ...
FDA names former pharmaceutical company executive to oversee US drug program
FDA Commissioner Marty Makary announced that Dr. George Tidmarsh, a cancer and pediatric specialist, will direct the agency’s ...
Biotech exec George Tidmarsh picked as FDA's chief drug regulator
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration named ex-biotech exec George Tidmarsh as its chief drug regulator. FDA Commissioner ...
FDA appoints George Tidmarsh as top drug regulator
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Monday it has appointed George Tidmarsh, a seasoned biotech executive and ...
FDA Suspends Muscular Dystrophy Drug After 3 Patient Deaths
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration ( FDA) has placed an immediate clinical hold on Sarepta Therapeutics' investigational ...
FDA appoints biotech veteran George Tidmarsh to lead drug evaluation division
Stanford's George Tidmarsh has authored 143 scientific papers and patents, as well as played a central role in developing ...
FDA to appoint George Tidmarsh as top drug regulator, Bloomberg News reports
U.S. Food and Drug Administration commissioner Marty Makary has chosen former biotech executive George Tidmarsh as the ...
US FDA extends review of GSK's blood cancer drug
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has extended its review of GSK's blood cancer drug Blenrep as a combination treatment, the company said on Wednesday.
The FDA Just Axed 52 Food Standards. Is That a Good Thing?
It noted that, at the time, there were products "that were represented as jams containing fruit, but the products contained ...
Former biotech executive appointed to lead FDA drug office
George Tidmarsh, a Stanford University physician who founded Horizon Pharma and later ran La Jolla Pharma, was named head of ...
Americans Are Turning To DIY Weight Loss Injections to Dodge $1,000+ Monthly Drug Costs
Demand for glucagon-like peptide-1 weight-loss drugs — such as Ozempic, Zepbound and Wegovy — coupled with limited insurance ...