FDA’s Crawford gets strong four-month review

Acting FDA Commissioner Lester Crawford "is doing an awesome job," HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson tells medical device association AdvaMed June 20. "He is out there to make changes. He is already making more changes in the short couple [of] months he's been here...realigning, reorganizing, putting in the risk assessment system....Whether or not he's going to get to be the commissioner, I can't tell you. That's a decision for the President. But I can assure you, until the final commissioner is appointed by the President, this man is in charge"...