Jerome Adams, MD, who served as the US Surgeon General during the first Trump administration voiced distress about Kennedy’s move.
Drugmaker Innoviva said the FDA has accepted its new drug application for zoliflodacin, an investigational oral antibiotic for uncomplicated gonorrhea.
Kennedy's rationale is based on a series of inaccuracies and part of a pattern of misrepresentation.
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