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Sue Sutter

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Senior Editor, Citeline's Pink Sheet, covering US FDA drug and biologic regulation and approvals. Views are my own.

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Alice Miranda Ollstein @alicemiranda.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The next phase in the abortion wars may come down to one question: Will federal courts allow the rights of red states to enforce bans to override the rights of blue states to protect access? The 5th Circuit hears a pivotal case today that could provide an answer. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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Louisiana’s abortion pill case could wipe out access in blue states
Red states claiming "sovereign injury" seek to impose nationwide restrictions.
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Alice Miranda Ollstein @alicemiranda.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
BREAKING: The 5th Circuit just rolled back access to the abortion pill mifepristone nationwide, reimposing prior rules that it only be obtained in person from a physician. assets.aclu.org/live/uploads...
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Sarah Karlin-Smith @sarahkarlin-smith.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Who wrote the memos that led to CDC schedule changes for COVID vaccines last May? Why NIH and FDA political appointees of course. Nice find from @pinksheetsutter.bsky.social in court docs over ongoing AAP litigation over various Trump-era vaccine policy. First time these docs are public.
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US FDA Memos Reveal Reasons For COVID Vaccine Policy Shift For Children And Pregnant Women
FDA Principal Deputy Commissioner Sara Brenner and Tracy Beth Høeg, then special assistant to the commissioner, wrote the scientific analyses underlying HHS' May 2025 decision to eliminate the recomme...
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Sue Sutter @pinksheetsutter.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
CDC ACIP meeting announcement for March 18-19 - agenda items include discussions on COVID-19 vaccine injuries and Long-COVID. Recommendation votes may be scheduled for COVID-19 vaccine injuries and Long-COVID and ACIP recommendation methodology.
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Andrew Beaujon @abeaujon.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
When you count the non-Guild represented people the Post laid off last week, it's close to half the newsroom, @farhip.bsky.social writes:
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Actually, the Washington Post Layoffs Were a Bigger Bloodbath Than You Thought - Washingtonian
The layoffs announced last week at the Washington Post were disfiguring to the esteemed news organization, with whole sections and departments—sports, books, staff photography—wiped away, and devastat...
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Sue Sutter @pinksheetsutter.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
What US government body meets on Dec. 29 in the absence of a public health emergency like a pandemic? Why, it's the Advisory Commission on Childhood Vaccines, of course. public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-22982.p...
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Sue Sutter @pinksheetsutter.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
As with the last few ACIP meetings, committee can't quite get its act together to vote.
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Sue Sutter @pinksheetsutter.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
SCOOP: FDA Office of New Drugs director not approached about CDER's top post, but also not interested insights.citeline.com/pink-sheet/a...
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FDA Office of New Drugs Director Mary Thanh Hai Not Interested In CDER Director Job
The 27-year agency veteran has not been formally approached about filling the vacancy created by George Tidmarsh’s resignation, but also is not interested in the position, the Pink Sheet has learned.
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Sue Sutter @pinksheetsutter.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Another senior staff loss at US FDA - Dionna Green, former director of the Office of Pediatric Therapeutics, joins Canal Row Advisors
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Sue Sutter @pinksheetsutter.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
$GSK Blenrep is back! @US_FDA approves belantamab, in combo w/ bortezomib and dexamethasone, for treatment of adults with r/r multiple myeloma who have received at least 2 prior lines of therapy. Approval follows negative adcomm in July and a user fee date extension
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Sue Sutter @pinksheetsutter.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
@fda.gov grants accelerated approval to Stealth Biotherapeutics' elamipretide, the first treatment for Barth syndrome
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Dorit Reiss @doritreiss.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
The COVID-19 workgroup finally put their recommendations - the ones that ACIP will vote on - up. The operative part - what's in ACIP's power - is that anyone can only get the vaccine under shared clinical decision making, and they essentially recommend against it for most people under 65. 1/2
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Sue Sutter @pinksheetsutter.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
@CDC #ACIP anticipated votes today. For measles, mumps, rubella and varicella vaccines given before age 4 yrs, combined MMRV vaccine is not recommended. Children in this age group should receive separate MMR and V vaccines
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Sarah Karlin-Smith @sarahkarlin-smith.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
new CDER head so familiar with FDA he blamed Peter Marks for Aduhelm... (Marks was head of CBER and Aduhelm was approved by CDER) www.realclearpolicy.com/2025/04/01/w...
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Why Peter Marks Was Asked to Leave the FDA
On Friday, Dr. Peter Marks announced his resignation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as Director of CEBR (Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research) citing differences with Health
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Sue Sutter @pinksheetsutter.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
FDA Commissioner Martin Makary "Dear Colleagues" letter warns about rising number of AEs involving products containing tianeptine, aka "gas station heroin"
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Sue Sutter @pinksheetsutter.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
US FDA announces 3 days of adcomms: May 20-21 #ODAC on four drugs; May 22 #VRBPAC on COVID vaccine formulation for 2025-2026
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Sarah Karlin-Smith @sarahkarlin-smith.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
the thing that is being watched closely now is not just how much RFK inserts himself into FDA decisions but how much Makary and his commissioner's office inserts himself into certain decisions the commissioner's office also has traditionally stayed out of.
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Sue Sutter @pinksheetsutter.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
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US FDA Miss On Stealth’s Elamipretide Boosts Signal Of Broader Delays Due To Staff Cuts
Failing to meet the 29 April user fee date for the Barth syndrome treatment, and CDER’s request for a delay in responding to Vanda’s appeal of a tradipitant complete response letter, suggest a slowdow...
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Patti Zettler @pzettler.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Out today in @jama.com, me and @nathancortez.bsky.social examine how the drastic staffing cuts at FDA run counter to FDA's many statutory obligations and the bargains embodied in user fee provisions - and put public health, innovation, and all of us at risk. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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The FDA’s Crisis Is Everyone’s Crisis
This Viewpoint discusses the Trump administration’s firings of thousands of US Food and Drug Administration employees and the ramifications of those actions on the agency’s congressionally given publi...
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Sue Sutter @pinksheetsutter.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
I'm told there are no US FDA-hosted activities for Bring Your Child To Work Day this year, marking a change from past years
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Sue Sutter @pinksheetsutter.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Fun fact from #ACIP meeting - Each measles case can cost $30,000 to $50,000 in public health response work. There were 712 reported cases in US as of April 10. I'll let you do the math.
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Sue Sutter @pinksheetsutter.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
FDA, NIH Rare Disease Day, which was postponed in late February, now officially cancelled "due to ongoing logistical and timing challenges"
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Rachel Sachs @rachelsachs.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Must-read take from John Coster on how states might try to limit drug costs in Medicaid, including closed formularies, if Congress succeeds in cutting hundreds of billions of dollars from the program. "You can't cut all this money and then tie states' hands and say, 'Well, you can't do that.'" (1/2)
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Sue Sutter @pinksheetsutter.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Pink Sheet SCOOP: Lola Fashoyin-Aje among several staffers in FDA's cell/gene therapy office leaving the agency. My colleague Derrick Gingery with the story insights.citeline.com/pink-sheet/a...
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CBER Losing Cell, Gene Therapy Leadership As Workforce Culling Continues
Among those now leaving the US FDA’s biologics center is Lola Fashoyin-Aje, who was considered a rising star at the agency when she became director of the Office of Therapeutic Products’ Office of Cli...
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Bertha Coombs @berthacoombs.cnbc.com · 05/03/2025
One of the 5 things HHS officials aren't doing is appearing at HIMMS. STAT's @brittanytrang.bsky.social: "I ran into a group of conference attendees who were gathering confusedly outside a room where Medicare officials were supposed to be speaking. This is what the room looked like instead:"
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Sue Sutter @pinksheetsutter.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Breaking news on the FDA lay offs from my colleague Sarah Karlin-Smith insights.citeline.com/pink-sheet/a...
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BREAKING: Some Laid Off FDA Employees Called Back To Work
Some FDA employees who were recently laid off by the Trump Administration are being called back to work, multiple sources confirmed to the Pink Sheet.
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Sue Sutter @pinksheetsutter.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Big FDA/NIH Rare Disease Day event scheduled for Feb. 27-28 POSTPONED, no doubt another victim of the Trump Administration transition and HHS communications freeze. "We want to make sure we can fully focus on the event to make it the best that it can be," email to registrants says.
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Sue Sutter @pinksheetsutter.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Guidance documents on clinical trial diversity action plans and sex differences in clinical evaluation of medical products are back up on FDA's website this morning after this court order yesterday insights.citeline.com//pink-sheet/...
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After US FDA Diversity Action Plan, Sex Differences Webpages Restored Will Others Follow?
A federal judge granted Doctors for America’s motion for a temporary restraining order directing the FDA and CDC to restore information removed from the agencies’ websites to comply with a presidentia...
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Association of Health Care Journalists @healthjournalism.org · 31/01/2025
An urgent message from the nation's health journalists:
To Acting Secretary Fink and Acting Director Monarez:

We are writing on behalf of the 1,400 members of the Association of Health Care Journalists, to protest the removal of vital public health data from the CDC website, including survey results from the Youth Risk Behavioral Surveillance System, the CDC’s Social Vulnerability Index, and AtlasPlus, an interactive CDC tool with years of data on social determinants of health and diseases including HIV, TB, and STDs.

These data are used by journalists every day to report stories about public health. 

At a time when the rise in chronic illnesses and harmful behaviors among young people is at the top of the national agenda, the YRBS data on smoking, vaping, drinking, eating, exercise, and sexual behavior are crucial for reporters trying to inform the public about these issues. The county-level Social Vulnerability Index data is important to inform reporting on communities’ resilience and ability to respond when faced with disasters such as wildfires and severe weather.

Even the temporary removal of such data will impair our members’ ability to give the public essential and timely health information. We request the immediate restoration of sites that have been taken down in recent days, and that the agency not take down other pages with critical health data.

Sincerely, 

Felice J. Freyer, president
Gideon Gil, vice president
Andrea Waner, interim executive director
Association of Health Care Journalists
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Nsikan Akpan @monscience.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Resurfacing in the light of day: People should archive their favorite CDC datasets today, namely ones around race/ethnic diversity, LGBTQ, flu, covid, reproductive health...
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Drew Armstrong @drewsnews.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
🏈📺This Hims Super Bowl ad leans very hard into the "pharma bad" / MAHA angle. Looks like these guy are picking a fight (in part over compounding, but swinging bigger than that) with pharma: www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5l6...
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Sue Sutter @pinksheetsutter.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
It appears US FDA adcomms starting to feel impacts from Trump Administration policies insights.citeline.com/pink-sheet/p...
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US FDA Opioids Adcomm Postponed; Are Communications Freeze, Travel Ban To Blame?
A Trump Administration communications freeze and travel ban may be complicating efforts to convene FDA advisory committees. A 5 February meeting on postmarketing requirements for extended-release/long...
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Sarah Karlin-Smith @sarahkarlin-smith.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Latest update on FDA from @pinksheetsutter.bsky.social and me. Please reach out if you have more information you can share on record, on background, off record etc. Also tracking other parts of HHS that impact pharma access, development, regulation etc. biosky healthpolicysky publichealthsky
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FDA Transition: New Acting Commissioner, Disappearing Docs, Scientific Publication Freeze
The FDA's interim leadership takes shape, but the sense of transition chaos still lingers.
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Holly Fernandez Lynch @hollylynchez.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Just noticed FDA's staff manual on internal scientific dispute resolution is missing from the website: www.fda.gov/media/79659/... According to the Wayback Machine, it was there as of 1/17/25: web.archive.org/web/20250117...
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Sarah Karlin-Smith @sarahkarlin-smith.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
He inherited an agency both by its own mistakes and by bullying from higher up the chain...that was really kind of on the ropes. I think he helped to restore it for the most part to a place of scientific respectability again. Now the question is, you know, what’s coming now? -Peter Lurie
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Robert Califf Stabilized US FDA, His Departure May Signal A Coming Storm
The two-time FDA commissioner resigned on 20 January as part of the administration change. Califf is credited with righting an agency demoralized from the COVID-19 pandemic, but worries about its futu...
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Sarah Karlin-Smith @sarahkarlin-smith.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
FDA's Drug Center Direct Patrizia Cavazzoni retiring 18 January. Been at FDA 7 years and was basically hand-picked by Janet Woodcock to be Woodcock's successor. biosky, pharmasky, healthpolicy
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Sue Sutter @pinksheetsutter.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
FTC and Georgia state AG action against Stem Cell Institute co-founders and companies leads to judgment for $5.1m in refunds, civil penalties www.ftc.gov/news-events/...
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Stem Cell Institute Co-Founders and Companies Banned from Marketing Stem Cell Treatments and Ordered to Pay More Than $5.1 Million for Refunds and Civil Penalties
Under federal district court orders announced today, the co-founders of the Stem Cell Institute of America and several related companies are banned from marketing stem cell therapy in the future.
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Sarah Karlin-Smith @sarahkarlin-smith.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Interesting catch from @brianreid.bsky.social: A Pennsylvania-based Blues plan is planning to deny coverage of all non-oncology accelerated approval drugs for 18 months after approval.
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Pearl Freier @pearlf.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
RFK Jr's lawyer petitioned the US government to revoke its approval of the polio vaccine. They wouldn't disclose who their clients are. An important story by @by-cjewett.bsky.social & @sherylnyt.bsky.social. Gift link below h/t @jeremymax.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/h... #biosky
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Chris Baraniuk @chrisbaraniuk.com · 03/12/2024
Everyone should read this article. And, yh, I'll say yet again: this is what journalists who care about what they do are fighting against. We want to be the last line of defence in information warfare. That's us. You want human eyes on that. No, we're not perfect. But at least we are accountable.
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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
The long and ugly story of Cassava Sciences’ supposed Alzheimer’s drug simufilam is finally over. It should have ended well before this.
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The Cassava Saga Finally Ends
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Sue Sutter @pinksheetsutter.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
At FDA clozapine REMS adcomm, mother of the panel's patient representative speaks during open public hearing about the burdens of REMS requirements.
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Sue Sutter @pinksheetsutter.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
@fda.gov adcomm to re-evaluate REMS for clozapine promising to be a rowdy affair. lots of OPH speakers wearing t-shirts that say clozapine is the safest antipsychotic. FDA statement that participation in the REMS is not currently required to get the drug was met with shouts of "that's not true"
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Sue Sutter @pinksheetsutter.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Wowza - European Medicines Agency's CHMP reverses its July negative opinion and now recommends marketing authorization for Leqembi (lecanemab) for treating mild cognitive impairment or mild dementia due to Alzheimer’s disease in patients who have only one or no copy of ApoE4.
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Sue Sutter @pinksheetsutter.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
For you pharma ad/promo folks: FDA Office of Prescription Drug Promotion sends untitled letter to Merz Pharma for misleading Instagram posts about Xeomin (incobotulinumtoxinA)
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Sarah Karlin-Smith @sarahkarlin-smith.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Industry support for the FDA’s work and staff will be important to the agency's prospects under the incoming Trump Administration, Commissioner Robert Califf said. via @pinksheetsutter.bsky.social insights.citeline.com/pink-sheet/l...
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Industry Support Key To US FDA’s Prospects Under Trump, Califf Says
The FDA's current leader, whose term will end with Donald Trump’s second inauguration, also described three qualities the agency’s next commissioner will need to succeed, including "believing that the...
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Sue Sutter @pinksheetsutter.bsky.social · 25/06/2024
Overdue FDA guidance on clinical trial diversity action plans required under FDORA finally cleared OMB yesterday. Presumably we could see this any day now
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Sue Sutter @pinksheetsutter.bsky.social · 20/06/2024
FDA traditional approval for $SRPT Elevidys in ages 4+ ambulatory and accelerated approval in nonambulatory patients - CBER's Marks once again overrode review staff, including OTP's Lola Fashoyin-Aje and Nicole Verdun, who supported CRL due to failed confirmatory trial
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Jonathan Rockoff @jonathanrockoff.bsky.social · 14/05/2024
Publisher Wiley will announce that it is closing 19 journals, some of which were infected by large-scale research fraud. www.wsj.com/science/acad...
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Sue Sutter @pinksheetsutter.bsky.social · 29/04/2024
FDA will hold a virtual listening session June 13 on use of, and processes for, adcomms public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2024-09014.pdf
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