(Bloomberg) -- A Democratic senator is holding up President Barack Obama’s nominee for head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, calling for changes in how the agency approves prescription painkillers that have been at the center of a deadly epidemic of drug abuse.
Senator Edward Markey of Massachusetts put a hold on Obama’s nomination of Robert Califf, a renowned cardiologist from Duke University, to serve as commissioner of the FDA, according to a statement from the senator’s office Monday.
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