It's as if they've been reading my mind ... . At the confirmation hearings for Michael Levitt yesterday, the Senators urged Mr. Levitt to name a permanent FDA Commissioner as soon as possible, and preferably by the end of January. Mr. Leavitt promised to fill the position quickly, but demurred on setting a deadline.
Can't you just hear the resume paper being run through the printers in DC?
Hopefully, they'll get someone in there who is willing to make changes that are needed at the FDA, and who has enough political clout to actually accomplish them. Further, I hope that it isn't someone who is just a mouthpiece for the administration, but someone who really will take a critical, honest and fair look at what the FDA is doing right and wrong, and burn the midnight oil getting it in shape. Between the clinical trial result non-disclosure scandals, the call for a national registry of those results, and the Chiron flu debacle, the FDA will need a strong personality who can reinvigorate the researchers there and re-establish the trust of the American (and world) public.
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