The Senate voted Tuesday to confirm the heads of two major federal health agencies.
Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD, will become the NIH director, and Martin Makary, MD, MPH, will become the FDA commissioner. Both Bhattacharya and Makary will report to HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who was confirmed last month.
The vote to confirm Bhattacharya was 53-47, along party lines; the vote for Makary was 56-44, with three Democratic senators joining the Republicans: Maggie Hassan, from New Hampshire; Jeanne Shaheen, also of New Hampshire and Richard J. Durbin, of (Read more...)