A top official at the Food and Drug Administration recently overruled government scientists on the availability of two ...

The government’s top vaccine official working under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently restricted the approval of two COVID-19 vaccines, disregarding recommendations from government ...

FDA vaccine official restricted COVID vaccine approvals against the advice of agency staff Top FDA leaders are typically not involved in the review of individual products. Officials like Prasad ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The government’s top vaccine official working under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently restricted the approval of two COVID-19 vaccines, disregarding ...

FDA approval of the COVID-19 vaccines, then, could spur more people to get vaccinated, potentially driving the U.S. ever closer to its herd immunity threshold: when as much as 80 percent of the ...

After federal health officials made abrupt changes to US Covid-19 vaccine recommendations for pregnant women last month, there’s new confusion and uncertainty about who can get the shots — and ...

And in May a Food and Drug Administration panel determined that, this year, vaccine producers should again tailor their shots to a single strain within the JN.1 lineage—preferably LP.8.1.

This is the same limited use the FDA set in licensing the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine last month. This fall, Moderna anticipates offering both Spikevax and mNexspike as COVID-19 vaccines.

The FDA has instructed Pfizer and Moderna to add stronger warnings to the labels of their COVID-19 vaccines about the risk of cardiotoxicity in some patients, citing a recent study and new data.