Trump picks White House aide Dr. Heidi Overton to lead the FDA

Dr. Heidi Overton, a top White House aide, has been picked to lead the Food and Drug Administration, President Donald Trump announced Wednesday. As a medical doctor and deputy director of the White House Domestic Policy Council who has worked on several of Trump’s second-term health initiatives, Overton has become a trusted figure in his administration and a champion of the Republican president’s goals. Yet any new FDA commissioner will have to balance a raft of competing priorities, between…