The new FDA Commissioner says “It’ all about the pain”

NEW FDA COMMISSIONER: “IT’S ABOUT THE PAIN” (Orthopedics This Week)
If you're in the business or profession of addressing pain, you've got the attention of the new FDA Commissioner, Robert Califf, M.D.
On March 30, 2016, Califf wrote in his first agency blog posting that the agency has an overarching "clear, realistic, and focused sense of priorities," with pain and the "present epidemic of opioid overdose" a specific critical issue on his front burner.
The Commissioner writes that the vast of majority of decisions made by the agency are made possible by "a system sustained by professionalism ...