(U.S. FDA via AP)

An FDA official is getting his job back as the agency's top vaccine regulator, less than 2 weeks after he was pressured to step down at the urging of biotech executives, patient groups, and conservative allies of President Donald Trump.

Vinay Prasad, MD, MPH, is resuming leadership of the FDA center that regulates vaccines and biotech therapies, an HHS spokesperson said in a statement Monday.

Prasad left the agency late last month after drawing ire of right-wing activists, including Laura Loomer, because of his past statements criticizing Trump.

A longtime critic of FDA's standards for approving medicines, Prasad briefly ordered the maker of a gene therapy for Duchenne's muscular dystrophy to halt shipments after two patient deaths . But that action triggered push

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