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| Sunday October 9 2005 11: 30 AM
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Old news, but worth a reprint in my opinion.
I was following health links just now, and ran across this again, and it hit me upside the head (again) as important re: health, and the stoooopid medicare stuff that Bush passed, and I'm wrestling through for me and Mom, and the slow passing of Rx (w/out major restrictions placed on the potentially wonder-wonderfully freeing) pain replacement drug "Bupe" Buprenorphine, and the long time coming of Paragaboline, and the slow slow slow removal of Vioxx and other nasty things health related and well-being related, thanks to the "machine" of big business....!
FDA Commissioner Resigns SuddenlySeptember 25, 2005 After serving as Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioner for two months, Lester Crawford on Friday announced his resignation. Crawford, who served as acting commissioner for more than a year prior to being confirmed, wrote in his resignation letter that “it is time at the age of 67 to step aside.” Christina Pearson, a spokesperson for Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt, would not answer questions from reporters about whether the Bush Administration had asked Crawford to resign, saying she could not comment on “a personnel issue,” according to the New York Times. Susan Wood, director of the FDA’s Office on Women’s Health, had just resigned several weeks ago in protest over the FDA placing politics above medical science in its decision making process on over-the-counter status for emergency contraception (EC). Senators Hillary Clinton (D-NY) and Patty Murray (D-WA) had blocked Crawford’s confirmation until Leavitt agreed to take action on EC by September 1, but then a week before the deadline Crawford and Leavitt double-crossed the Senators and announced another delay on EC. Dr. Andrew C. von Eschenbach, director of the National Cancer Institute, will serve as interim FDA commissioner.
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