Trump administration advances plan for peptide drugs favored by RFK Jr.

STAT News·October 15, 2026 at 8:46 PM

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U.S. health officials are moving ahead with a plan to allow specialty pharmacies to produce certain peptides, a class of largely unregulated injections favored by health secretary Robert F. Kennedy…

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