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1. Exclusive: FDA search for new CBER head focused on small group of final candidates
2. Moderna in talks with FDA over post-marketing Covid shot data, with eyes on wider access
3. House panel calls for banning China data from FDA drug trial applications
4. Amgen files update to Tavneos label as FDA escalates push to withdraw 
5. FDA approves Pfizer and Arvinas' breast cancer drug despite underwhelming data
6. FDA's oncology advisors vote against 'new paradigm' in AstraZeneca breast cancer trial
Nicole DeFeudis
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FDA Commissioner Marty Makary has been under intense scrutiny, with recent reports describing pressure over flavored vape products, abortion medication and recent drug decisions. The commissioner defended the agency’s decision-making in a CNBC interview this week, noting that “what we have done is followed the science.”

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FDA Commissioner Marty Makary speaks at the annual Milken Institute Global Conference in Los Angeles on May 4, 2026 (Drew Armstrong for Endpoints News)
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by Drew Armstrong, Max Bayer

The FDA has nar­rowed its search for a new leader of its Cen­ter for Bi­o­log­ics Eval­u­a­tion and Re­search to three or four fi­nal can­di­dates, ac­cord­ing...

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by Max Bayer

Mod­er­na said it's work­ing with US reg­u­la­tors to pro­vide post-mar­ket­ing da­ta on its Covid-19 vac­cines that could re­store their use to a wider group af­ter...

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Rep. Andy Harris (R-MD) (Michael Brochstein/Sipa USA/Sipa via AP Images)
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by Max Bayer

A pow­er­ful spend­ing com­mit­tee in Con­gress wants the FDA to ban the use of clin­i­cal tri­al da­ta from Chi­na in fu­ture ap­pli­ca­tions by drug­mak­ers to...

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by Nicole DeFeudis

Am­gen has tak­en steps to up­date its Tavneos la­bel amid an on­go­ing bat­tle with the FDA.

The com­pa­ny filed a sup­ple­menton Wednes­day that would...

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by Max Gelman

The FDA on Fri­day ap­provedPfiz­er and Arv­inas' drug vepdeges­trant for pa­tients with a cer­tain form of breast can­cer. But it’s un­clear how many will...

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by Nicole DeFeudis

In its first meet­ing in about nine months, the FDA’s ad­vi­so­ry com­mit­tee of on­col­o­gy ex­perts vot­ed 6-3 Thurs­day that a late-stage tri­al for As­traZeneca’s oral...

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