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 ...

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

For children, yes, the CDC’s “shared decision-making” guidance preserves the status quo in which Medicaid and U.S.

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

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

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The US Food and Drug Administration has named Dr. Vinay Prasad ... are also weighing a reversal on Covid-19 vaccine recommendations for children. Prasad has vocally questioned authorizing those ...

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 ...

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

The FDA says the new approach will aim to balance a timely approval process for vaccines, while also weighing “the need for ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has tapped Dr. Vinay Prasad, an oncologist who has previously criticized FDA leadership and COVID-19 mandates, as the director of its Center for Biologics ...