Senate confirms Bhattacharya and Makary to HHS posts
The Senate confirmed on Tuesday Dr. Martin A. Makary as Commissioner of Food and Drug Administration and Dr. Jay Bhattcharya as director of the National Institutes of Health and installed two critics of the medical establishment on influential places in a Trump administration to reduce the expenditure among health authorities.
In a vote of 56 to 44, Dr. Makary confirms that an agency with a broad supervisory authority via products such as drugs and vaccines, which means that it was the focus of the debates about the safety of the abortion pill and a wide range of vaccinations.
The confirmation of Dr. Bhattacharya-53 to 47, puts it on with a party line at the head of the world’s leading medical research agency, which has recently been beaten by cuts in the HR department and orders for the break or cancellation of the huge research financing.
Dr. Makary, a Pancreas crab surgeon and health policy researcher at John’s Hopkins University, drew the Trump team as a Fox News -Personality and commentator for Covid, who incorrectly predicted in 2021 that the nation “races to an extremely low level of infection”.
At a hearing for confirmation this month, Dr. Makary said that he shared republican concerns about the extended access to the abortion pill, which the bids made available to people without receiving personal medical appointment.
He also commented on the support of vaccines, although he suggested that the FDA had to check the role of vaccine experts to which the agency was addressing to contact advice.
Legislators have warned that employees of employees of FDA efforts to ensure the safety of food supply that could weaken the FDA efforts.
The NIH, which has a budget of $ 48 billion and financed medical research on diseases such as cancer and diabetes, was also beaten up by layoffs and trump management movements in order to block the most important parts of his grant for scholarships and to scrap some grants directly.
Dr. Bhattacharya, a health economist and professor of medicine in Stanford, largely asked questions about these decisions at the beginning of March.
In 2020 he stormed into the public spotlight when he was the authors of a treatise against Lockdown, the Great Barrington declaration, which spoke out against the protection of older and endangered people from covid and at the same time spread the virus among younger, healthier people.
He also utilized for reforms for scientific financing practices, including the application of a larger examination for research results that are not geared towards the following studies and direct money to the most far -reaching and innovative research and not incremental studies.
Dr. Bhattacharya was asked by legislators this month about the security of vaccines and said that he supported the vaccination of children against diseases such as measles, but also that scientists should carry out more research on autism and vaccines, a position that shows with comprehensive evidence between the two.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., The Health Secretary who was criticized
