FDA head chosen, NIH names swirling
Former New York City health commissioner Margaret Hamburg seems to be the Obama administration's pick to head the embattled Food and Drug Administration, with Baltimore health commissioner Joshua Sharfstein slated to serve as FDA's deputy commissioner, according to linkurl:__The Washington Post__.;http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/11/AR2009031103570.html?wpisrc=newsletter Hamburg served as NYC health commissioner for much of the 1990s, after a brief stint at the Natio

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