The US Food and Drug Administration’s top lawyer resigned on Thursday, two days after her appointment was announced, the agency posted on the social media site X.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's chief counsel, Hilary Perkins, has resigned, the federal agency said in a post on social media platform X on Thursday, just two days after her appointment was announced.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) chief counsel resigned two days after her appointment, according to a Thursday announcement from the agency. “Hilary K. Perkins has resigned from her position as Chief Counsel of FDA,

A key US Senate panel voted to advance the nominations of President Donald Trump’s picks to lead the Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health. The nominees will next face confirmation votes before the full Senate.

After the contentious Senate confirmation of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., another crucial governmental health leadership nominee—the proposed head of the FDA—took center stage Thursday. | If confirmed, Johns Hopkins surgeon Martin Makary,