Pharmalittle: We're reading about FDA disarray, microdosing GLP-1 weight loss drugs, and more Observers characterized the dismissals, policy reversals, and controversies at the FDA as a soap opera, total disarray, and potentially, unprincipled

Pharmalot.. Pharmalittle: We’re reading about FDA disarray, microdosing GLP-1 weight loss drugs, and more news.. statnews.com/pharmalot/20... #pharma #obesity #weight #FDA #Tidmarsh #Makary #Lilly #NovoNordisk #Merck #Blackstone

#Tidmarsh Tip of the iceberg ? Even when the acts themselves don’t materialize, the permission structure—“the boss gets away with it, so maybe I can too”—changes tone and morale inside bureaucracies. That’s why imitation is visible in rhetoric long before it appears in misconduct.

FDA Leaders Moving to Abandon Advisory Committee Reviews of Specific New Drugs - National Center for Health Research STAT News, September 12, 2025: FDA seeks to abandon Advisory Committees for specific drugs and use them for bigger issues says CDER head George Tidmarsh. We point out that Expert Panels are also repla...

Will #FDA abandon Advisory Committees for specific drugs and use them for bigger issues? George #Tidmarsh says yes and Zuckerman points out bias in new FDA Expert Panels. www.center4research.org/kff-fda-aban...

A photograph of an Eastern Kingbird in flight, surrounded by tall blade-like leaves.

An Eastern Kingbird on the hunt at Mass Audubon's Tidmarsh Sanctuary.

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