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FDA’s Prasad Vows to Make Rare Disease Drugs Available at ‘First Sign of Promise’
The FDA plans to “rapidly make available” rare disease drugs and make use of surrogate endpoints to get promising medicines ...
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FDA Taps Vaxxer Skeptic Vinay Prasad To Oversee Vaccine, Gene Therapy Regulations
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a move that has already rattled Wall Street and divided the medical community, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has appointed Dr. Vinay Prasad—an oncologist ...
A new COVID subvariant spreads rapidly as Trump pivots away from vaccines
A new, highly transmissible COVID subvariant has been detected in California — heightening the risk of a summer wave as ...
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FDA Chief Defends Job Cuts, COVID Booster Policy at Senate Hearing
Seven weeks into his job as FDA commissioner, Marty Makary, MD, MPH, held his own answering a barrage of sometimes acrimonious questions from Senators about agency staffing cuts, limits on COVID ...
Covid Vaccine Boosters Won't Be Available for Healthy Adults Under 65. How Will That Work?
"With the COVID pandemic behind us, it is time to adopt a common-sense approach to COVID policy," a spokesperson for the FDA tells Rolling Stone. "Healthy individuals aged six mon ...
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FDA Restricts COVID-19 Booster Shots for Under-65s in Major Policy Shift
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced a significant revision to its COVID-19 vaccination policy, restricting access to seasonal booster shots for healthy Americans under the age of ...
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Why Most Americans Won't Need Covid Boosters Anymore and What It Means for You
We want to know more about what these products are doing,” said Dr. Vinay Prasad during a recent FDA livestreamed ...
FDA to limit COVID vaccines to high-risk groups, drawing concern from Bay Area experts
In a significant shift of federal vaccine policy, the Food and Drug Administration announced Tuesday that access to updated COVID-19 vaccines this fall will be limited to older adults and individuals ...
FDA Changes May Limit COVID Vaccine Access—Drawing Some Criticism. Here’s What We Know
The change marks a shift in the Food and Drug Administration’s policy on approving COVID-19 vaccines, which the new ...
FDA to limit covid shot approval to 65+, those with medical conditions
The FDA will narrow its approval for updated coronavirus vaccines, marking a significant shift in the agency’s approach to green-lighting shots that have been recommended broadly to the public.
RFK Jr. pledged not to upend US vaccine system, but big changes are underway
WASHINGTON (AP) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. clinched the political support needed to become the nation’s top health official by pledging to work within the decades-old federal system for approval and use ...
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At gene therapy meeting, no one wants to talk about the Vinay Prasad (not) in the room
NEW ORLEANS — Last year, hundreds of people poured in to hear Peter Marks, the Food and Drug ... the gene therapy field is what stance Vinay Prasad, the fiery hematologist and frequent pharma ...