STAT+: Prasad returns to the FDA, Attack on the CDC

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Normally I keep the intro to this newsletter light-hearted. But today I feel compelled to acknowledge the terror that CDC employees felt Friday when bullets peppered the agency’s headquarters, and the death of the police officer and father of two with another child on the way. I hope my condolences don’t ring hollow. They are sincere

It’s almost like he was never gone

Vinay Prasad is returning to lead the FDA’s biologics center two weeks after leaving the agency amid tensions related to a gene therapy product, Lizzy Lawrence reported over the weekend.

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