According to the CDC, 1 in 5 American adults is living with obesity. In recent years, many have turned to weight loss drugs ...

Former FDA head weighs in on opioid epidemic 03:12. Doctor David Kessler, who ran the FDA from 1990 to 1997, doesn't hold back when talking about the explosion in opioid use in the last two ...

David Kessler has lost more than 60 pounds on weight-loss drugs and believes they can change the ... Kessler, a physician, served as FDA commissioner from 1990 to 1997 and as a top covid-19 ...

Former FDA Commissioner David Kessler shared his experience with GLP-1 weight loss drugs on "CBS Mornings Plus." advertisement. Weight loss drugs have "no end game," former FDA commissioner warns.

Dr. David Kessler, the Food and Drug Administration’s energetic crusader against silicone breast implants, misleading food labels and tobacco sales to children, on Monday announced plans to ...

Biden chooses former FDA commissioner Kessler as chief science adviser to federal vaccine effort. Kessler, a close adviser on covid-19, will focus on accelerating the slow vaccine rollout ...

David Kessler came took the helm of the FDA in 1990. He's been out for 3 years. He says taking on the tobacco industry was the most challenging aspect of his job.

Topline. President-elect Joe Biden has picked former Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioner, Dr. David Kessler, to help lead Operation Warp Speed — the U.S. government’s program for ...

David Kessler, commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, knew that every step he took to resolve the breast implant debate demanded coolness and detachment. Ideally, hard scientific facts w… ...

Dr. David Kessler, who will have the title of chief science officer of COVID response, headed the Food and Drug Administration in the 1990s under presidents of both political parties.

Former FDA Commissioner David Kessler on Tuesday at a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing recommended that Congress pass a bill (S 334) that would allow U.S. residents to ...

When Dr. David Kessler took over the Food and Drug Administration six years ago, the demoralized agency was in crisis, the result of a bribery scandal. There were doubts that it could do its main j… ...