Posted by Michael Wonder on 16 Dec 2019
Senate confirms Stephen Hahn to head FDA
12 December 2019 - The Food and Drug Administration has been without a permanent commissioner since April, when Dr. Scott Gottlieb resigned.
The Senate voted 72 to 18 to confirm Dr. Stephen Hahn as commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, as the agency faces pressure to reduce teenage vaping and weighs competing interests on a long-delayed proposal to ban flavored e-cigarettes.
Dr. Hahn, chief medical executive at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, was nominated by President Trump to replace Dr. Scott Gottlieb, who left the post in the spring. Since then, the F.D.A. has been run by two acting commissioners.
