In the past two weeks, U.S. public health authorities have skirted normal procedures and announced two major policy changes ...

We want to know more about what these products are doing,” said Dr. Vinay Prasad during a recent FDA livestreamed ...

Details of the new rules for COVID-19 vaccine approvals were also outlined in an article published by The New England Journal of Medicine, authored by Prasad and FDA Commissioner ...

The FDA plans to require new clinical trials for approval of annual COVID-19 boosters for healthy Americans under 65.

The US Department of Health and Human Services, under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has recently made significant changes ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Dr. Vinay Prasad, a prominent critic of ... of medicines for gravely ill patients. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Prasad reached a much broader audience as a critic of vaccine ...

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After the FDA announced that it would no longer authorize new COVID-19 vaccines for healthy Americans under age 65, the CDC ...

Long before he joined the FDA to run the center that regulates vaccines, Vinay Prasad argued against COVID shots for kids. Among his many criticisms of the United States’ approach to combatting ...

Since 2023, federal health officials have recommended an annual COVID-19 shot for most people, and vaccine makers have not ...

The Trump Administration is considering limiting approval for COVID-19 boosters to seniors and others at high risk pending ...