In a striking bipartisan move, the Senate Appropriations Committee voted 26-3 to boost the NIH’s budget by $400 million — rejecting the Trump administration’s proposed $17 billion cut and sweeping ...

Over a whirlwind three weeks, Sarepta Therapeutics has faced tough safety questions around its commercial gene therapy ...

Prasad, a longtime critic of the FDA’s leniency in drug approvals, joined the agency in May. WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug ...

Two major health agencies are facing leadership reshuffles, with the resignations of the FDA’s Vinay Prasad and NICE’s Dr Sam Roberts.

Niemann-Pick Disease Type C (NPC) is a rare genetic disorder caused by mutations in the NPC1 or NPC2 genes, leading to harmful lipid accumulation in organs like the liver and brain. Symptoms, often ...

This week on "The Readout LOUD," STAT's biotech reporters parse what Vinay Prasad's ouster means for biotech and the FDA.

PTC Therapeutics faces pivotal FDA decisions for approvals that could potentially transform their long-term revenues. Click ...

OH and the leaf of the kratom plant are not analogous, but as the former is a derivative of the latter, it has opioid-like qualities that make its susceptibility to abuse concerning.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) top vaccine official is stepping down after just three months in a role that ...

From the meme stock revival to Trump's Fed feud, Peter Hodson looks at some of the summer's more bizarre trends ...

Indian-origin scientist Vinay Prasad resigned as the FDA's vaccine and gene therapy chief in just three months after backlash ...

But this time, the unknown is hitting the industry in a different way from when Prasad was tapped to lead CBER less than ...