Public Citizen's FDA? Lurie Is Consumer Group's Third In Key Agency Role
Executive Summary
FDA's appointment of a high-profile consumer advocate to an Office of the Commissioner post continues a strategy of bringing some of the most outspoken critics of both the drug industry and its regulatory agency into FDA
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