FDA, Covid-19 vaccine
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A group of experts who advise the US Food and Drug Administration on its vaccine decisions voted unanimously Thursday to make a broad recommendation about which lineage of the coronavirus should be included in this year’s Covid-19 vaccines,
In a major policy shift, federal health officials anticipate the shots will be made available to adults 65 and older as well as children and younger adults who have one or more risk factors that make them more vulnerable to severe COVID-19.
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MedPage Today on MSN'There's No Conspiracy': An Inside Look at CDC's Key Vaccine Safety DatabaseFrank DeStefano, MD, MPH, was there when the CDC's Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD) first came online in 1990, when the agency convinced four health maintenance organizations (HMOs) to contribute data to assess vaccine safety.
Amid a growing distrust of vaccines and the medical community, there’s also been a growing divide in the Make America Healthy Again initiative.
The Trump administration said Tuesday it will limit approval for seasonal COVID-19 shots to seniors and others at high risk pending more data on everyone else — raising questions about whether some people who want a vaccine this fall will be able to get one.
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Two global health groups that fund billions of dollars worth of critical medical aid - from childhood vaccines to malaria treatments - are in talks about merging some functions to help combat a financing crunch,
A rehab firm will pay a cash settlement to an occupational therapist it fired when the worker declined a COVID-19 vaccination.
Amanda Johnson, a mother of five and Marine spouse, is fighting the military to prevent her family from being separated during an overseas permanent change of station to Peru.