Trump to select Scott Gottlieb, a physician with deep drug-industry ties, to run the FDA
By Laurie McGinley and Carolyn Y. Johnson at WP
... "According to a federal database, Gottlieb received more than $413,000 in consulting and speaking fees and other payments from pharmaceutical companies between 2013 and 2015.
Michael Carome, director of Public Citizen's Health Research Group, described Gottlieb as “entangled in a web of Big Pharma ties” and said his confirmation “would accelerate a decades-long trend in which agency leadership too often makes decisions that are aligned more with the interests of industry than those of patients.” ...
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