PFAS is still in some infant formula

Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. Too much news yesterday, so here’s a link to a late-breaking story that the FDA has chosen Vinay Prasad’s interim successor. Trump drops Casey Means’ surgeon general nomination The White House has dropped its nomination of Casey Means to be the next surgeon general, opting instead for Nicole Saphier, a radiologist and Fox News contributor. The swap signals the limits of the Trump administration’s power in the Senate and represents a blow to the Make America Healthy Again movement’s months-long push to get Means confirmed. But Saphier’s interest in personal wellness and skepticism of vaccine mandates suggest she may be able to appeal to both MAHA and more mainstream Republican senators. President Trump announced the change in a social media post and blamed Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), who leads the committee tasked with reviewing the surgeon general nomination, for tanking Means. Cassidy, we will remind you, was the deciding vote to approve Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as health secretary. Read more from my STAT colleagues, including a look at Saphier in her own words. If a model outperforms physicians, should that