AP report: FDA scientists opposed the Trump administration's move to ease peptides access
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- PBS NewsHour reports: “A plan to give people in the United States easier access to unproven peptide drugs favored by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was opposed by most Food and Drug Administration scientific staf…”
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