Marty Makary's first official day as commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration began with employees in tears.
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FDA Commissioner Marty Makary gets off to a bruising start as agency is wracked by layoffs Makary's first official day as FDA commissioner began with employees in tears, learning from security guards that they were losing their jobs. The news release announcing the start of his tenure points readers to a press office that, after large-scale layoffs, basically no longer exists. His first email to staff summarized his resume. Read more. By Lizzy Lawrence and Sarah Todd |
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Five NIH institute directors and numerous lab heads ousted in unprecedented shake-up The layoffs affected people across the NIH's 27 institutes and centers, including officials who help guide how the world's largest funder of biomedical research makes decisions about what diseases to study and what medicines to develop, as well as staff who made the organization operate day to day and communicated with the public. Read more. By Megan Molteni, Jonathan Wosen, and Jason Mast
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At CDC, Trump administration's job cuts wipe out wide array of specialists Scientists dedicated to tobacco control, injury prevention, workplace safety, birth defects, reproductive health, and substance abuse woke on Tuesday to news they had received dreaded "reduction-in-force" notices. Read more. By Helen Branswell and Sarah Owermohle
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