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  "id": 16942164,
  "title": "FDA scientists opposed Trump administration’s move to ease peptide access",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/28/fda-scientists-opposed-trump-administrations-move-to-ease-peptide",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-10-28T18:35:40.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Guardian Health",
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    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/28/peptides-fda-health-human-services-department"
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  "summary": "Effort to loosen rules on unproven peptide drugs, favored by RFK Jr, faced fierce pushback from agency scientists A plan to give people in the United States easier access to unproven peptide drugs favored by the US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr , was opposed by most Food and Drug Administration scientific staff members, who had limited input in drafting the policy, according to six people…",
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        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/27/cdc-deputy-director-jennifer-shuford-to-leave-trump-administration",
        "published": "2026-10-27T04:00:23.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "Fast Company",
        "title": "How FDA scientists opposed the Trump administration’s push for easier access to peptides",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/28/how-fda-scientists-opposed-the-trump-administrations-push-for-easier",
        "published": "2026-10-28T18:17:06.000Z"
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        "outlet": "PBS NewsHour Science",
        "title": "AP report: FDA scientists opposed the Trump administration's move to ease peptides access",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/28/ap-report-fda-scientists-opposed-the-trump-administrations-move-to",
        "published": "2026-10-28T21:20:55.000Z"
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