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 ...

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 ...

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 FDA will no longer recommend annual COVID vaccinations for healthy people younger than 65. A North Carolina doctor says ...

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

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The U.S. Centers For Disease Control and Prevention changed its guidance for COVID-19 vaccines on Friday, saying young kids ...

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