Vinay Prasad, a MAHA-aligned hematologist-oncologist with an avid cyber following, who was named director of the FDA Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research in early May (The Cancer Letter, May 9, 2025), has now been also appointed chief medical and science officer at FDA, according to an internal memo obtained by The Cancer Letter.
There is general agreement that the United States spends too much on health care, especially on pharmaceuticals. But what we spend on drugs is not simply a function of price. If eggs double in price, people can simply cut the number of eggs they eat in half. Simply stated, cost is the product of (price per unit times the number of units purchased).
