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Tag: Food and Drug Administration
A Quick Remedy Proves Elusive For Life-Saving Pulse Oximeter’s Problems With Darker Skin
Since the start of the pandemic, the popular medical device has been indispensable for measuring oxygen in the blood, but dangerously inaccurate in patients with darker skin. Now the FDA is in the hot...
How Jessica Biel Is Making Medicine Kinder To Your Children’s Health
KinderFarms was co-founded by parents Jessica Biel and Jeremy Adams when they couldn’t find … [+] children’s health products that were both effective and aligned with their values. KinderFarms W...
Raw Oysters Contaminated With Sapovirus May Be In 13 States
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has just issued a warning about raw oysters potentially … [+] being contaminated with sapoviruses. (Photo: Getty) getty What the shuck? The U.S. Food ...
Revance Shares Jump 18% After FDA Approves Botox Rival Daxxify
Topline Shares of Revance Therapeutics surged 18% Thursday after the company announced the Food and Drug Administration had approved Daxxify, a facial injection drug that Revance hopes will challenge ...
CDC ‘Cautiously Optimistic’ About Falling Rates Of Infections—But Racial Disparities Spark Concern
Topline Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky said she felt “cautiously optimistic” about the monkeypox outbreak in the U.S., with new infection rates declining as the ...
Global Monkeypox Cases Fall 21%—Though U.S. Still Tops World Case Count
Topline Worldwide confirmed cases of monkeypox fell 21% last week after climbing for four weeks straight, a potential sign the outbreak is slowing in Europe, the World Health Organization said Thursda...
Vaccine Targeting Fast-Spreading Omicron Subvariants Could Be Ready For Fall As Pfizer, BioNTech Announce Trials
Topline Pfizer and BioNTech will begin trials of their updated mRNA Covid-19 vaccine designed to protect against the newer BA.4 and BA.5 sub-variants of the coronavirus latest this month, BioNTech ann...
It’s Time To Cure The FDA’s Regulatory Sclerosis
WHITE OAK, MD – JULY 20: A sign for the Food And Drug Administration is seen outside of the … [+] headquarters on July 20, 2020 in White Oak, Maryland. (Photo by Sarah Silbiger/Getty Image...
U.S. Ordering 2.5 Million More Monkeypox Vaccines Amid Reported Rollout Woes
Topline The U.S. has ordered 2.5 million more doses of Jynneos, the Food and Drug Administration-approved vaccine to prevent monkeypox, the Department of Health and Human Services said Friday, while a...
Ted Cruz Trolls Sesame Street’s Elmo Over Covid-19 Vaccines For Kids Under 5
Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) trolled Elmo, after Sesame Street tweeted a video about Covid-19 … [+] vaccines. (Photo by Paul Zimmerman/WireImage) WireImage Looks like Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) wa...
FDA Advisory Panel Endorses Omicron-Specific Covid Boosters—Here’s When You Should Get Your Next Shot
Topline An advisory panel to the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday recommended the agency push to field new Covid-19 booster shots targeting the highly contagious omicron variant, a move some ho...
Moderna And Pfizer Covid Vaccines For Young Children Endorsed By FDA Panel
Topline A Food and Drug Administration advisory committee on Wednesday voted unanimously to recommend Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccines for young children, a step that could clear the wa...
Pfizer, Moderna Covid Vaccines Are Effective In Young Children, FDA Says—Here’s How They Differ And What Happens Next
Topline Three doses of Pfizer’s vaccine and a two-doses of Moderna’s shot are safe and effective in preventing illness from Covid-19 in young children, according to assessments provided by the Food an...
FDA Advisory Panel Endorses Novavax—1st Protein-Based Covid Vaccine
Topline A Food and Drug Administration advisory committee on Tuesday voted unanimously to endorse Novavax’s protein-based Covid-19 vaccine, bringing the shot one step closer to becoming the fourth FDA...
Pfizer Asks FDA To Greenlight Covid Vaccine For Children Under 5
Topline Pfizer has asked the Food and Drug Administration to authorize its three-dose Covid-19 vaccine for children under 5, the company announced Wednesday evening, a move that could extend protectio...
Urgent FDA Recall For Peanut Butter Over Salmonella Concerns
Jif peanut butter has been linked to 14 cases of salmonella over several states so far. Consumers … [+] are being warned not to consume affected products from the Kentucky plant. getty The Food ...
How Safety Concerns At An Abbott Facility Fueled A Crisis
Topline When Abbott Laboratories, one of the largest manufacturers of baby formula in the U.S., closed a facility in Michigan in February after the Food and Drug Administration announced it was invest...
Biogen CEO Stepping Down After Struggles With Alzheimer’s Drug Aduhelm
Topline Biogen CEO Michel Vounatsos will step down as the company continues to cut about $1 billion in costs annually, Biogen said Tuesday, after Medicare limited coverage for its Alzheimer’s drug, Ad...
87% Of Kids Hospitalized With Covid During Omicron Wave Were Unvaccinated, CDC Says
Topline About 87% of children hospitalized with Covid-19 when the omicron variant was dominant were unvaccinated, according to a study released Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Preventio...
The “New” Nutritional Facts Label Won’t Solve The Problem
The Food and Drug Administration created the Nutrition Facts label in 1993. Shopper reading nutrition label getty The serving sizes that appear on labels today were originally determined by how much f...
India, China Pharmaceutical Companies Face Increasing Scrutiny In Washington
An advocacy group for local generic drug manufacturers, called the Americans for Safe Drugs, says … [+] most people want their essential medicines made here. And foreign labs giving FDA warnings...
New Federal Spending Plan Could Effectively Ban Products That Help People Quit Smoking
Woman vaping at home. getty Of the many provisions included in the 2,741 page omnibus spending bill being pushed through Congress this week is a budget rider that will subject thousands of products co...
Medicare Seeks To Limit Coverage For Controversial Alzheimer’s Drug Aduhelm
Topline The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services proposed limiting coverage for Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm to patients participating in clinical trials Tuesday, after many medical experts claimed ...