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CBER Director Resigns from FDA, Commissioner Makary’s Recent Remarks on FDA Staffing Cuts, CBER Hiring Data, and Additional...

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Through our Venable FDA Pulse series, we report on critical developments within the Food and Drug Administration (FDA or Agency) that may affect the Agency’s structure and stakeholder interactions. ...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

‘I Really Wanted to Stay’: Amid Success, Regrets, OHRP’s Kaneshiro Hopes Agency Will Be Rebuilt

When Jerry Menikoff retired at the end of 2022 after leading the HHS Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) for 14 years, he left behind an agency limping along with 20 employees, less than half of what it needed. For...more

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OCR Loses Staff, Faces Move to New ‘Enforcement’ Office; Will HIPAA Focus, Independence Suffer?

Today, the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) stands shoulder-to-shoulder with the likes of the Office of Inspector General and Office of General Counsel, one of just a dozen or so agencies reporting directly to the secretary....more

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Mass Layoffs Begin At the FDA

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As a further update to our alert from March 27, the Trump Administration began mass layoffs at US health agencies on April 1....more

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HHS Announces Employee Reduction Amid Downsizing and Restructuring Plans

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On March 27, 2025, HHS announced a downsizing and restructuring plan that combines personnel cuts, centralization of functions, and consolidation of HHS divisions. Among other things, the plan aims to cut the HHS workforce by...more

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HHS plans for workforce reduction may impact FDA operations

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After months of back and forth and uncertainty related to efforts under the new Trump Administration to reduce the size of the federal government, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy...more

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President Trump Issues Executive Order to Advance “Large-Scale” Reductions in Federal Workforce

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It remains unclear the extent to which the order will impact agencies like FDA. On February 11, 2025, as part of an ongoing effort to reduce the size of the federal workforce, President Trump issued an executive order titled...more

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Coronavirus: The Hill and the Headlines – COVID-19 D.C. Update – August 2020 # 19

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In Washington - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) sent clear signals to the Trump administration that Democrats are not going to engage in anything less but serious negotiations on a coronavirus relief package....more

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October 2017: The Top 11 Labor And Employment Law Stories

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It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there have been an unprecedented number of changes each month in 2017. October was no...more

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Five Key Issues Impacting Health Care Employers

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Employers in the health care industry are likely to face significant changes under President-elect Donald J. Trump’s administration and should expect a healthy dose of uncertainty for the next few months. During his campaign,...more

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