FDA’s top drug regulator ousted amid agency upheaval

Upheaval among the top ranks of the Food and Drug Administration continued late Friday when Tracey Beth Høeg, the agency’s top drug regulator, was ousted.

Høeg had served as acting director of the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) since December, and was the fifth head or acting head of the division since the start of the Trump administration.

A sports medicine doctor who criticized COVID-19 shots for children, she was a political appointee in a position that traditionally has been filled by career officials.

Høeg’s departure continued the shakeup atop the FDA that began when Commissioner Marty Makary was fired last Tuesday, as the White House looks to quell criticism and stabilize health agencies ahead of the........

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