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Pioneering FDA commissioner Frank Young dies at 88

November 26, 2019 12:21 AM UTC

Frank Young, who served as FDA Commissioner from 1984 to 1989, a pivotal and tumultuous era in drug regulation, died Nov. 24 at age 88. He was diagnosed last week with B Cell Lymphoma.

Former FDA commissioners praised Young for his service at the agency and for the assistance he provided in the decades after he left Washington. ...