Marty Makary

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Dr. Marty Makary provided us the following statement, quote, Big Tobacco exploited their connections to administration and HHS officials to put repeated pressure on me to approve fruit-flavored vapes that appealed to children.

I wouldn't do it.

The Kratom 70H lobby ran the same playbook to undermine my efforts to make this new gas station heroin illegal.

Um, Callie Means says corporate and political pressure pushed Moderna's mRNA flu vaccine through the FDA after regulators raised serious concerns.

Callie Means says former FDA Commissioner Marty Makary tried to push it back for another study rather than wave it through shortly after Makary was fired.

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Makary

So let me just say, wow, a lot has happened in the past six months.

When we last had you on the show in just this April, Marty Makary was still FDA commissioner.

Explain to our viewers what happened there.

Obviously, the FDA had been under pressure and Commissioner McCary was very in the center of it all in terms of addressing flavored vapes.

16 studies.

Again, this is Professor Marty Makary.

16 studies have demonstrated the power of acquired immunity.

probably even more now.

Like, just even the FDA saying artificial food dyes are chemicals that affect your brain, that affect your microbiome.

You know, hearing someone like Dr. Marty Makary, who was the head of the FDA, say those words out loud, on the lawn of the White House with me in front of the CNN cameras.

That was a moment, right?

Yeah.

So I think that's a really important component of the exposure to the compound.

So when Dr. Marty Makary was head of the Food and Drug Administration, he was a big advocate for hormone replacement therapy.

And take away the black box warning and, hey, everything's just fine.

But it's a lot more nuanced, I think.

He was pushed out of the FDA, a guy named Vinay Prasad.

And then later afterwards, the FDA commissioner was also pushed out, a guy named Marty Makary.

And then shortly afterwards, one of his main advisors, a woman, Dr. Tracy Beth Hogue, was also similarly pushed out the door.

Although oddly enough, she doesn't know to this day who actually fired her.

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Initially, they said we had to do two studies.

We have real-world evidence, a successful phase three study, and we're going to bring up that new England Journal of Medicine article to the FDA and see if Dr. Makary's opinion still holds on the new standard being a single pivotal State plus confirmatory evidence.

It's going to be interesting to see because I think that's going to be a division by division decision from the division directors.

I don't think you're going to see it all the way through the agency to be widely accepted at this point.

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The Fox News medical all-stars, featuring Dr. Marc Siegel, Dr. Marty Makary, Dr. Janette Nesheiwat, and the OG, Dr. Nicole Sapphire.

Legal analysis from former prosecutor and court journalism superstar Imran Ansari and Christine Nicholas.

The quintessential heartbeat to New York hospitality, all joining legendary broadcast pro Kevin McCullough on a mission unlike any other: united to bring back New York.