Incentives to bring vaccines to market are shrinking. Drugmakers are scaling back research investments and cutting jobs.

The U.S. Senate has a plan to improve drug development for rare disease patients. The exit of controversial CBER chief Vinay Prasad will help clear the path.

On June 11, 2025, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released educational materials to broaden dietary supplement manufacturers’ and distributors’ awareness and understanding of the FDA’s new ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The pathway aims to streamline approval for individualized treatments for rare and ultra-rare diseases. An ...

On September 3, 2025, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a new process to support the development of drugs intended to treat rare genetic diseases. The Rare Disease Evidence ...

As FDA itself observes, “devices of a new type that FDA has not previously classified … are ‘automatically’ or ‘statutorily’ classified into class III…, regardless of the level of risk they pose.” To ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday introduced the Rare Disease Evidence Principles (RDEP) to provide greater speed and predictability in the review of therapies intended to treat rare ...

Months after promising help for “hundreds of thousands of kids,” the FDA approved the decades-old medicine for a disease documented in less than 50 people.

According to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the traditional paradigm of medical device regulation was not designed for adaptive artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies. As a ...

FDA Commissioner Marty Makary said at a press conference Tuesday that the federal government is beginning to process to classify 7-Hydroxymitragynine (7-OH-MIT), a kratom extract sold at gas stations ...