Should Marty Makary take the reins at the FDA, transitioning from gadfly to the head of an agency that regulates a fifth of the U.S. economy, he would have to engage in the thorny challenges of governing.

Marty Makary, Trump’s pick for FDA commissioner, testified before the Senate health committee Thursday.

Senators asked Makary about the FDA’s decision to cancel a scheduled meeting of its outside committee of vaccine experts to discuss the design of this year’s influenza vaccine

Dr. Marty Makary, President Donald Trump's choice to lead the Food and Drug Administration, pointed out the Biden administration's decision to skip key committee meetings when authorizing vaccines in response to a top Democrat's question.

Christopher Ridley, a spokesperson for Moderna, said the state legislative efforts are largely a product of “misunderstandings” about how the technology works and its safety profile. A bill in Idaho describes the vaccines as a “human gene therapy product,” an inaccurate label since the shots don’t alter human DNA.

If confirmed, Makary would run one of the nation's leading health agencies, overseeing the regulation of food and drugs.

Marty Makary, Trump’s pick for FDA commissioner, testifies before a Senate panel this morning. Follow STAT's live updates.

Questioned by senators at a Thursday hearing, President Trump's FDA nominee said he would reevaluate which scientific topics require an advisory committee's input.

A longtime Johns Hopkins surgeon and best-selling author, he has advised the World Health Organization and been elected to the National Academy of Medicine. (Makary, whose confirmation hearings kicked off in the Senate this morning,

Marty Makary, a career surgeon and President Trump’s nominee to run the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), faced senators in his confirmation hearing on Thursday, aligning himself with the Make America Healthy Again agenda but stopping short of outright endorsing some recent,

President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the US Food and Drug Administration told senators in a tense confirmation hearing Thursday that, if confirmed as FDA commissioner, he plans to evaluate school lunches,