The Senate’s version of the House-passed 21st Century Cures bill will not be finished until after the Senate’s summer recess, or September at the earliest, Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) said, confirming rumors that the Senate was struggling to reach agreement on the wide-ranging and heavily criticized legislation. “Rarely do we have such an opportunity: it includes support for the President’s Precision Medicine initiative and the Vice President’s Cancer Moonshot. Speaker [...

President Barack Obama’s US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioner nominee Robert Califf, who faces a Senate committee vote Tuesday, told legislators in written comments that he does not support the lowering or removal of regulations at FDA, though he previously said they were a barrier to innovation. In response to questions from Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) last week, following a November hearing in which senators were largely supportive of the former directo...