Dr. Marty Makary will testify before the Senate health committee on Thursday. Lawmakers may press him over staff reductions and changes in agency direction on issues like vaccines.
23andMe CEO Anne Wojcicki is attempting to buy her company back for a mere $42 million. It’s a fraction of the company’s former value: Just four years ago, the DNA testing company was worth $6 billion. The company’s plunge follows market shifts, a major data breach, and an expensive foray into drug development.
Dr. Marty Makary is a renowned Johns Hopkins surgeon and President Donald Trump's pick to head the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). He faced senators in a two-hour confirmation hearing Thursday morning taking on topics ranging from medical devices, vapes and food safety to the abortion drug mifepristone.
Donald Trump nominated Dr Marty Makary to lead the Food and Drug Administration, a man who shot to fame by skewering the medical establishment in books and papers and bashing the federal response to COVID-19 on TV.