to seal leftovers when a container doesn’t work.

after clashing with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. overIn a social media post, Prasad likened Marks to “a bobblehead doll that just stamps approval.”

Last year, he told former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy that Americans would probably be better off without the FDA in its current form.“If you’re talking about FDA 2024, I think they’d probably be better off as a result of not having the FDA” Prasad said during an appearance on Ramaswamy’s podcast.A professor at the University of California San Francisco, Prasad’s medical training is in cancer and blood disorders. He first came to prominence among academics more than a decade ago for a series of papers

behind new cancer therapies.Research by Prasad and his colleagues showed that many cancer drugs fast-tracked by the FDA have never been shown to improve or extend patient lives. Instead, the drugs are often approved based on alternate measures, such as the ability to shrink tumors, which are thought to predict long-term survival in patients.

The FDA has long defended this practice as a way of accelerating approval of medicines for gravely ill patients.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Prasad reached a much broader audience as a critic of vaccine and mask mandates, lockdowns and moves to speed the availability of booster shots from Pfizer and Moderna. Many of his views mirror those of other Trump appointees, including Makary and National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya.MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — A suicide bomber in the

on Sunday targeted young recruits waiting to register at a military camp, killing at least 13 and wounding 21 others, witnesses said.Mogadishu has been repeatedly targeted by

which has waged an insurgency for over a decade. The group frequently attacks military and government sites as part of its effort to impose its strict interpretation of Islamic law.“There was a loud explosion, and immediately people began running in all directions. Bodies were everywhere,” said Abdulkadir Hassan Mohamed, a tuk-tuk driver who witnessed the blast.