The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory committees play a critical role in providing outside expertise to agency officials on key decisions such as medical product approvals or safety actions, ...

Alexander is a practicing internist and drug safety expert at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Americans trust the Food and Drug Administration to make life-and-death decisions in ...

FDA leaders under President Donald Trump are moving to abandon a decades-old policy of asking outside experts to review drug applications, a move critics say would shield the agency’s decisions from ...

In democratic societies, science advisory committees ensure that policy decisions impacting public health, the environment, and technological innovation are rooted in evidence rather than political ...