Senate Committee Grilling Preps US FDA Commissioner Nominee For Confirmation

Transparency from US Food and Drug Administration commissioner nominee Martin Makary extends to telling Senate members that the agency should “use common sense to ask some big questions we’ve never asked before,” including making more medical products available OTC.

Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee members, on 6 March during a confirmation hearing, peppered Makary, a physician who specializes in surgical oncological physician and is chief of pancreatic islet transplant surgery at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, with questions on