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Article: Von Eschenbach asks Congress for more funding for his agency.
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- Medical Device Daily
- Article date:
- May 16, 2008
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Von Eschenbach asks Congress for more funding for his agency
By MARK McCARTY
Medical Device Daily Washington Editor
WASHINGTON -- The FDA funding merry-go-round has been in the works for better than a decade and a half, but that has not stopped the often outspoken Rep. John Dingell (D-Michigan) and others on Capitol Hill from lambasting the current FDA commissioner, Andrew von Eschenbach, MD, for his failure to play the squeaky wheel (Medical Device Daily, April 24, 2008).
However, von Eschenbach has reversed field and, in a break with past FDA commissioners, requested additional funding from Congress in a professional judgment letter ...