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Posted On: 01/31/2021 5:52:26 PM
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smurph
You posted a link to a statnews article that said advocacy groups were urging Biden not to tap Woodcock as FDA Administrator. I could not get beyond the first paragraph without a subscription, but I found it somewhere else.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/...oids-biden
Their concern is about opioid approvals. I'll post some excerpts below. Taking an optimistic view, perhaps quick approval of Leronlimab could be be a decisive factor in her getting the job permanently.
Groups fighting the US opioid epidemic have called on Joe Biden to appoint a new head of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) after describing the acting commissioner as unfit for the post because of her part in the mass prescribing of painkillers that have caused hundreds of thousands of deaths.
In a letter to the administration, 28 groups accused Dr Janet Woodcock of presiding over “one of the worst regulatory agency failures in US history” as head of the FDA department responsible for approving new prescription opioids, the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER).
The letter accused Woodcock of “dereliction of duty” for allowing opioid manufacturers to spend years disseminating false claims that narcotic painkillers were less addictive and more effective than they really were, contributing to the rise of mass opioid prescribing and spread of an epidemic that has claimed more than 500,000 lives.
You posted a link to a statnews article that said advocacy groups were urging Biden not to tap Woodcock as FDA Administrator. I could not get beyond the first paragraph without a subscription, but I found it somewhere else.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/...oids-biden
Their concern is about opioid approvals. I'll post some excerpts below. Taking an optimistic view, perhaps quick approval of Leronlimab could be be a decisive factor in her getting the job permanently.
Groups fighting the US opioid epidemic have called on Joe Biden to appoint a new head of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) after describing the acting commissioner as unfit for the post because of her part in the mass prescribing of painkillers that have caused hundreds of thousands of deaths.
In a letter to the administration, 28 groups accused Dr Janet Woodcock of presiding over “one of the worst regulatory agency failures in US history” as head of the FDA department responsible for approving new prescription opioids, the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER).
The letter accused Woodcock of “dereliction of duty” for allowing opioid manufacturers to spend years disseminating false claims that narcotic painkillers were less addictive and more effective than they really were, contributing to the rise of mass opioid prescribing and spread of an epidemic that has claimed more than 500,000 lives.
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