New year, new administration, new FDA
The new year brought a new U.S. administration, and it wasn’t long before word was out: Dr. Margaret Hamburg, former New York City Health Commissioner, would lead the agency; Dr. Joshua Sharfstein, Baltimore Health Commissioner, would be her deputy numero uno. Even more quickly off the mark was Congress, which wasted no time pushing for FDA to regulate tobacco . It wasn’t long before Hamburg, Sharfstein, & Co. got their prescriptions for change. The ex-editor of the New England Journal of Medicine wrote hers in the Washington Post .
