WASHINGTON, April 22 -- Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto issued the following press release:
Today, U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) questioned Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in the Senate Finance Committee. She pressed him on holding up approval for lifesaving cancer drugs, letting health care fraudsters off the hook, and his role in the recent layoffs at Boulder City Hospital.
First, Cortez Masto pressed Kennedy on his Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) recent decision (https://www.wsj.com/opinion/fda-rp1-replimune-melanoma-drug-rfk-jr-vinay-prasad-marty-makary-b8d666b2?st=ZEcK6k&reflink=article_email_share) not to approve a new lifesaving cancer drug to treat metastatic melanoma. Despite suppor...