FDA, Elon Musk and Neuralink

US FDA asks fired scientists to return, including some reviewing Musk’s Neuralink
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is asking some of its recently fired scientists if they will come back to their jobs, including some employees reviewing Elon Musk's brain implant company, Neuralink,
FDA staff were reviewing Elon Musk’s brain implant company. DOGE just fired them.
The cuts included about 20 people in the FDA’s office of neurological and physical medicine devices, several of whom worked on Neuralink.
Exclusive-US FDA Asks Fired Scientists to Return, Including Some Reviewing Musk’s Neuralink
Americans need “an efficient, effective FDA review process that helps advance the medical technologies American patients depend on. Bringing these specific experts back would help fulfill that mission," said Scott Whitaker, CEO of the medical device industry group AdvaMed, which had criticized the firings.
Exclusive: FDA staff reviewing Musk’s Neuralink were included in DOGE employee firings, sources say
U.S. Food and Drug Administration employees reviewing Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink were fired over the weekend as part of a broader purge of the federal workforce, according to two sources with knowledge of the matter.
FDA Asks 300 Fired Scientists to Return
The FDA plans to rehire around 300 people in total, according to four sources with secondhand knowledge of the situation, following President Donald Trump’s rush last week to fi
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Elon Musk humiliated as FDA begs staff to return to their posts
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FDA Employees Terminated in Mass Layoffs Had Been Overseeing Elon Musk's Neuralink Trial: Report
The mass termination of FDA employees overseeing Neuralink's clinical trials has raised concerns over regulatory oversight.
F.D.A. Reinstates Fired Medical Device, Food and Legal Staffers
The agency changed course just days after firing employees who oversee the safety of food and life-sustaining medical devices ...
How Elon Musk's White House Job Is Helping Line His Pockets
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DOGE will use AI to assess the responses of federal workers who were told to justify their jobs via email
Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, had some harsh words for the way DOGE was operating, calling the email sent to federal workers ...
FDA moves to rehire medical device, food safety and other staffers fired days earlier
The reversal is the latest example of President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk’s chaotic approach to cost-cutting, ...
Trump reinstates fired staff working on food and device safety, 9/11 program
Patient advocacy groups had decried the firings, and lobbying groups rushed to save some slots that were in part funded by ...
Trump is firing federal workers who are not funded by taxpayers
Elon Musk's DOGE team has slashed hundreds of jobs paid for by fees from banks and other forms of funding rather than ...
Elon Musk Draws Ire Telling Federal Employees to Justify Their Jobs Over Email or Resign
Musk caused alarm among federal employees over an email sent on Saturday requesting that employees summarize their work.