“Food and Drug Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb announced his resignation from the FDA on Tuesday. He said he would step down from the agency in about a month.”
“WHY IT MATTERS
Gottlieb was nominated by confirmed by a 57-42 Senate vote less than two years ago, in May of 2017.
Despite the concerns of some that his close ties with the pharmaceutical industry offered the potential for “unprecedented financial entanglements with the industries he would regulate as FDA commissioner,” others were hopeful that his energy and enthusiasm would help “accelerate the discovery, development and delivery of new cures and treatments” to address some of the most pressing problems in the U.S. healthcare industry.
In his resignation letter, Gottlieb cited…” Read the full article here.
Source: FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb to step down – By Mike Miliard, March 5, 2019. HealthcareITNews.
