David Lim

Washington, D.C.

Health Reporter at POLITICO

Writer at Prescription Pulse Newsletter

Health reporter @POLITICO covering Covid-19 and the @US_FDA. @AAJA+@AHCJ. Prescription Pulse co-author. Tips: [email protected]. DM for Signal.

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Trump launches investigation into drug imports

1 week ago | politico.com | Lauren Gardner |David Lim

With Chelsea CirruzzoABOUT THAT 232 PHARMA INVESTIGATION — The Department of Commerce launched an investigation on April 1 into the national security impacts of importing drugs and active pharmaceutical ingredients, according to a notice published in the Federal Register on Monday, POLITICO’s Ari Hawkins reports.
RFK Jr. says Deep State ‘is real,’ called FDA employees ‘sock puppet’ of industry

1 week ago | politico.com | Adam Cancryn |Lauren Gardner |David Lim

The HHS secretary’s remarks shocked staffers at the Food and Drug Administration, prompting some to walk out. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. looks on during a press conference about Utah's new fluoride ban, food additives and SNAP funds legislation. | Melissa Majchrzak/AP HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s visit to the FDA Friday was supposed to introduce him as a trusted leader to agency employees. It did anything but.
RFK Jr. says Deep State 'is real,' references past work with 'the retarded' in speech to FDA staff

1 week ago | politico.com | Adam Cancryn |Lauren Gardner |David Lim

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s visit to the FDA Friday was supposed to introduce him as a trusted leader to agency employees. It did anything but. Over the course of 40 minutes, Kennedy, in largely off-the-cuff remarks, asserted that the “Deep State” is real, referenced past CIA experiments on human mind control and accused the employees he was speaking to of becoming a “sock puppet” of the industries they regulate.
RFK Jr. says Deep State ‘is real,’ called FDA employees ‘sock puppet’ of industry

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Adam Cancryn |Lauren Gardner |David Lim

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s visit to the FDA Friday was supposed to introduce him as a trusted leader to agency employees. It did anything but. Over the course of 40 minutes, Kennedy, in largely off-the-cuff remarks, asserted that the “Deep State” is real, referenced past CIA experiments on human mind control and accused the employees he was speaking to of becoming a “sock puppet” of the industries they regulate.
FDA inspection speed bump

1 week ago | politico.com | David Lim |Lauren Gardner

IMPACT OF STAFF CUTS — Job cuts at the FDA could threaten the yearslong effort to return the agency’s inspections of foreign manufacturing plants to pre-pandemic levels. While the Trump administration kept its promise to retain the actual inspectors, cuts to critical staff who supported inspectors could leave Americans less safe, according to public health experts and former FDA officials.
Vaccine-autism case revived amid measles surge

2 weeks ago | politico.com | Lauren Gardner |David Lim

A lawyer's bid to reopen a vaccine-autism case threatens a federal compensation program. | Geoff Caddick/AFP via Getty Images VACCINES, AUTISM BACK IN COURT — A legal effort could upend a nearly 40-year program that compensates people who say they were injured by vaccines, Lauren reports.
Drugmakers escape tariffs - for now

2 weeks ago | politico.com | David Lim |Lauren Gardner

With help from Robert King Speaking from the White House Rose Garden on Wednesday, President Donald Trump announced new tariffs on various industries, notably excluding pharmaceutical companies. | Mark Schiefelbein/AP Photo TARIFFS ON MEDS? NOT YET — The U.S. stock market took a pounding Thursday, but drugmakers spent the day in quiet celebration.
Top Trump FDA official Brenner hits pause on Novavax Covid-19 vaccine decision

3 weeks ago | politico.com | David Lim |Adam Cancryn |Lauren Gardner

The intervention by a senior FDA official in a product decision is a highly unusual action. Kennedy petitioned the FDA in May 2021 to revoke emergency authorizations for Covid vaccines and to refrain from issuing new ones. A top FDA official directly intervened in an agency review of Novavax’s Covid-19 vaccine, pausing the approval process to ask for more data on the shot, according to four people familiar with the decision granted anonymity to discuss the approval status.
Top Trump FDA official Brenner hits pause on Novavax Covid-19 vaccine decision

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | David Lim |Adam Cancryn |Lauren Gardner

A top FDA official directly intervened in an agency review of Novavax’s Covid-19 vaccine, pausing the approval process to ask for more data on the shot, according to four people familiar with the decision granted anonymity to discuss the approval status. Dr. Sara Brenner, FDA's Principal Deputy Commissioner, took the highly unusual step, cutting against longstanding precedent at the agency designed to shield scientific assessments from political interference.
The health industry is starting to express alarm about RFK Jr.

3 weeks ago | politico.com | David Lim

Drug and medical device makers didn’t oppose Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s confirmation as health secretary, but are speaking up in opposition to the agency downsizing he ordered. Layoffs at the FDA have unnerved drugmakers. | AP Drugmakers made a calculated risk during HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s confirmation process in choosing not to publicly criticize a nominee who called their products dangerous. They’re starting to reconsider.