Decision Has Not Been Made About Office Of Women's Health Funding, FDA Commissioner Von Eschenbach Says

SOURCE: Medical News Today

DATE: March 5, 2007

EXCERPT: "FDA Commissioner Andrew von Eschenbach on Wednesday at a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing said he has not made a decision on fiscal year 2007 funding for the agency's Office of Women's Health, Reuters reports (Heavey, Reuters, 2/28). According to an unnamed, high-level FDA official, the agency intends to withhold $1.2 million of the $4 million Congress allocated to the women's health office for FY 2007, and the remaining $2.8 million already has been allocated or spent."  more