{"id":6027,"date":"2025-08-12T23:06:48","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T23:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/12\/vinay-prasad-fda-cber-cdc-attack-rfk-jr-hhs-mrna-nih-dc-diagnosis-newsletter\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T23:06:48","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T23:06:48","slug":"vinay-prasad-fda-cber-cdc-attack-rfk-jr-hhs-mrna-nih-dc-diagnosis-newsletter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/12\/vinay-prasad-fda-cber-cdc-attack-rfk-jr-hhs-mrna-nih-dc-diagnosis-newsletter\/","title":{"rendered":"STAT+: Prasad returns to the FDA, Attack on the CDC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    STAT+: Prasad returns to the FDA, Attack on the CDC<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em>You\u2019re reading the web edition of D.C. Diagnosis, STAT\u2019s twice-weekly newsletter about the politics and policy of health and medicine.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/signup\/dc\/\">Sign up here<\/a>\u00a0to receive it in your inbox on Tuesdays and Thursdays.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s headquarters, and the death of the police officer and father of two with another child on the way. I hope my condolences don\u2019t ring hollow. They are sincere<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-it-s-almost-like-he-was-never-gone\">It\u2019s almost like he was never gone<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/08\/09\/vinay-prasad-returns-to-the-fda-weeks-after-his-ouster\/\">Vinay Prasad is returning to lead the FDA\u2019s biologics center<\/a> two weeks after leaving the agency amid tensions related to a gene therapy product, Lizzy Lawrence reported over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/08\/12\/vinay-prasad-fda-cber-cdc-attack-rfk-jr-hhs-mrna-nih-dc-diagnosis-newsletter\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Continue to STAT+ to read the full story\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    John Wilkerson<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/08\/12\/vinay-prasad-fda-cber-cdc-attack-rfk-jr-hhs-mrna-nih-dc-diagnosis-newsletter\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Go to statnews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STAT+: Prasad returns to the FDA, Attack on the CDC You\u2019re reading the web edition of D.C. Diagnosis, STAT\u2019s twice-weekly newsletter about the politics and policy of health and medicine.\u00a0Sign up here\u00a0to receive it in your inbox on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Normally I keep the intro to this newsletter light-hearted. But today I feel compelled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2145,2315,2146,2288,2213,2266,2176,2151,2144,2149,2152],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-6027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cdc","category-d-c-diagnosis","category-fda","category-health-insurance","category-insurance","category-medicare-advantage","category-pharma","category-policy","category-politics","category-rfk-jr","category-stat","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6027"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}