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FDA to issue new vaccine approval guidance amid questions over coronavirus shots
FDA Commissioner Marty Makary said his agency plans to release a new framework for vaccine approvals in “coming days.” ...
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FDA says ‘dangerous’ substance known as ‘gas station heroin’ poses major risk to young people
The head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is sounding the alarm on a dangerous drug referred to as "gas station heroin," that can lead to serious harm, including death. FDA ...
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FDA appoints first chief AI officer as it looks to speed up reviews
During the major restructuring of the FDA in early April, Vid Desai, the FDA’s chief information officer and head of its Office of Digital Transformation, was laid off along with other senior me ...
Ghana's FDA boss appointed Head of African Medicines Agency of the African Union
Ghana has won the bid to lead Africa in the establishment of the African Medicines Agency. The African Medicines Agency (AMA) ...
FDA Plans to Limit COVID-19 Vaccines to High-Risk Groups
In an editorial article published in the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Vinay Prasad, the newly appointed head of the ...
Moderna Files FDA Application for the LP.8.1 Targeting COVID-19 Vaccine
CAMBRIDGE, MA / ACCESS Newswire / May 23, 2025 / Moderna, Inc. (NASDAQ:MRNA) today announced that it has submitted an ...
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US FDA approves Moderna’s next-generation COVID-19 vaccine, with caveats
The new mRNA vaccine encodes the receptor-binding domain and the N-terminal domain of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein ...