President Obama, please retain Commissioner Hamburg
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
With the re-election of President Obama in the US, many people are sitting back and assuming that the Food and Drug Administration won’t change much. It doesn’t need to: Commissioner Margaret Hamburg is doing a good job; the agency is moving forward to improve food, drug and device safety; more rational and predictable review processes are being implemented; and there are at least three relatively new laws that need ongoing attention.
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