{"id":73589,"date":"2026-05-15T23:55:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T04:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/15\/fda-turmoil-deepens-as-top-drug-chief-departs-claiming-she-was-fired\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T23:55:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T04:55:16","slug":"fda-turmoil-deepens-as-top-drug-chief-departs-claiming-she-was-fired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/15\/fda-turmoil-deepens-as-top-drug-chief-departs-claiming-she-was-fired\/","title":{"rendered":"FDA turmoil deepens as top drug chief departs claiming she was fired"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Tracy Beth H\u00f8eg, the Food and Drug Administration\u2019s top drug regulator, says she was fired from agency after declining to resign<\/p>\n<p>In a major shake-up at the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), top regulators left on Friday \u2013 including Tracy Beth H\u00f8eg, the acting drug chief, who says she was fired, and Katherine Szarama, the acting vaccines chief who has only been in the position for days. Jim Traficant, the chief of staff, has also been ousted.<\/p>\n<p>The FDA now has no permanent commissioner or deputy commissioner and no permanent leaders of two major centers, after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/12\/marty-makary-fda-trump-administration\">resignation of Marty Makary<\/a> on Tuesday and other high-profile departures.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/16\/fda-tracy-beth-hoeg-drug-chief-departs\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Tracy Beth H\u00f8eg, the Food and Drug Administration\u2019s top drug regulator, says she was fired from agency after declining to resign In a major shake-up at the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), top regulators left on Friday \u2013 including Tracy Beth H\u00f8eg, the acting drug chief, who says she was fired, and Katherine &#8230; <a title=\"FDA turmoil deepens as top drug chief departs claiming she was fired\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/15\/fda-turmoil-deepens-as-top-drug-chief-departs-claiming-she-was-fired\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about FDA turmoil deepens as top drug chief departs claiming she was fired\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}