President Donald Trump’s choice to lead the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Johns Hopkins School of Medicine professor Dr. Marty Makary, was confirmed in the Senate on Tuesday. His confirmation was cemented just hours after he cleared one last procedural test vote earlier in the evening.  The Senate voted 56-44 to invoke cloture on the nomination prior to his final confirmation. Makary, a former Fox News medical contributor, went...

President Donald Trump’s choice to lead the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Johns Hopkins School of Medicine professor Dr. Marty Makary, cleared a key vote in the Senate on Tuesday, the last such test before his final confirmation vote.  The Senate voted 56-44 to invoke cloture on the nomination.  A final vote to confirm the FDA nominee is slated for after 8 p.m. Tuesday.  Makary, a former Fox News...

The full Senate voted Tuesday evening to confirm President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Dr. Jay Bhattacharya. The party-line vote followed approval from the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, which also voted along party lines to advance Bhattacharya, leading to today’s full Senate vote.   A physician, Stanford professor of medicine and senior fellow at the university’s Institute for...