Sara Brenner, FDA device official, named agency's acting head.

Sara Brenner, a Food and Drug Administration official in the medical device division, has been appointed as the FDA's acting commissioner. She will lead the agency until a permanent commissioner is appointed. President Trump has nominated Johns Hopkins surgeon Marty Makary to run the FDA, but confirmation is pending. Former FDA Commissioner Robert Califf recently stepped down, and other senior officials have also left the agency. [Extracted from the article]