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            <title><![CDATA[FDA Appoints Biotech Executive as Top Drug Regulator Under RFK Jr.]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Marty Makary, commissioner of the FDA, is naming George Tidmarsh director of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2025 10:00:07 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Sarepta Refused FDA’s Request to Halt Elevidys Shipments]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[FDA Offers to Trade Faster Drug Reviews for Lower US Prices]]></title>
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                <media:description>The FDA typically has avoided inserting itself into the murky world of drug pricing in the US. </media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[FDA Will Share Rejection Letters Drugmakers Often Conceal]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[FDA Head Says OxyContin Was Approved Illegally. Now What?]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2025 10:00:20 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Martin Makary, commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, arrives for a senate hearing in Washington on May 22, 2025.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Nearly Quarter of People on Long-Acting Opioids Develop Addiction]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2025 20:22:07 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[How the FDA Helped Ignite, and Then Worsened, the Opioid Crisis]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[An investigation into the agency’s repeated violations of its own rules to approve addictive drugs—and its ongoing failure to rein in the public-health crisis.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2025 09:00:39 GMT</pubDate>
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