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Lauren Gardner

FDA Politics and Policy Reporter at POLITICO

FDA politics & policy reporter @POLITICO. Honorary 🇨🇦. 26.2 x5. It's pronounced "wooder." RTs ≠ ;) DM for Signal/WhatsApp. [email protected]

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  • 1 week ago | politico.com | Chelsea Cirruzzo |Lauren Gardner

    HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. used newly released autism figures to insist the nation is facing a crisis and promised to ferret out the “environmental toxins” he believes are responsible. The secretary, who in the past has repeated debunked claims that there is a link between vaccines and Autism Spectrum Disorder, said better diagnostics and awareness are responsible for only 25 percent of the increased rate, which is now 1 in 31 children.

  • 1 week ago | yahoo.com | Chelsea Cirruzzo |Lauren Gardner

    HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. used newly released autism figures to insist the nation is facing a crisis and promised to ferret out the “environmental toxins” he believes are responsible. The secretary, who in the past has repeated debunked claims that there is a link between vaccines and Autism Spectrum Disorder, said better diagnostics and awareness are responsible for only 25 percent of the increased rate, which is now 1 in 31 children.

  • 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.

  • 1 week ago | politico.com | Adam Cancryn |Lauren Gardner |Irie Sentner |Sophia Cai

    Welcome to POLITICO’s West Wing Playbook: Remaking Government, your guide to Donald Trump’s unprecedented overhaul of the federal government — the key decisions, the critical characters and the power dynamics that are upending Washington and beyond. | Subscribe | | | | | LATEST: The Trump administration is considering asking Congress to slash the State Department and USAID budgets by nearly half, our NAHAL TOOSI reports.

  • 1 week ago | politico.com | Adam Cancryn |Lauren Gardner

    The Food and Drug Administration earlier this month fired dozens of staffers responsible for going after retailers who illegally sell tobacco to minors. Now it’s begging them to come back.

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Lauren Gardner @Gardner_LM
5 Apr 25

RT @adamcancryn: News: HHS has no plans to rehire 20 percent of the employees it fired earlier this week, despite RFK Jr.'s assertion yeste…

Lauren Gardner
Lauren Gardner @Gardner_LM
3 Apr 25

RT @adamcancryn: Here’s former FDA chief David Kessler last night on the HHS cuts, which included firing the official who approved the drug…

Lauren Gardner
Lauren Gardner @Gardner_LM
2 Apr 25

RT @politico: The health industry is starting to express alarm about RFK Jr. https://t.co/lr7jfinpiR