President Trump said Friday that he would nominate Scott Gottlieb, a conservative physician with longstanding ties to the drug industry, to be the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration. For years, Gottlieb has worked to advise the drug industry. For example, the FDA now frequently approves medicines for serious diseases like cancer before studies show they extend or improve lives. In his writing, Gottlieb has often taken positions favored by the drug and medical device industries. Instead of allowing the imports, Gottlieb argued that high drug prices in the U.S. were caused by failures at the FDA that had increased the cost to manufacture generic medicines.

Source: Los Angeles Times March 10, 2017 23:41 UTC