The FDA’s new approach to boosters could mean that kids will no longer be able to get vaccinated against the disease to begin ...

Two weeks into his tenure leading the FDA’s biologics center, Vinay Prasad has made his mark with a new framework for ...

The truth is that for most of that, for many Americans, we simply do not know the answer to whether or not they should be ...

On May 20, 2025, the Food and Drug Administration announced a new stance on who should receive the COVID-19 vaccine. The ...

Previously, updated COVID vaccines had been recommended annually by the CDC for everyone over the age of 6 months. The CDC has historically set vaccine recommendations, while the FDA determines which ...

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

The US Food and Drug Administration has named Dr. Vinay Prasad, a hematologist oncologist, to lead its Center for Biologics ...

In his new role with the FDA, Dr. Vinay Prasad will oversee the regulation of costly drugs, including vaccines, gene ...

The question on many minds among FDA rank-and-file in attendance was: Which Prasad would show up? The 2010s Prasad -- a ...

At this point, the additional doses offer “uncertain” benefits to many young and middle-aged people who have already been vaccinated or have had Covid, Dr. Vinay Prasad, the F.D.A.’s vaccine ...

The FDA is moving to restrict COVID vaccination to adults 65 and older and other particularly vulnerable people. Learn what’s at stake.

FDA Commissioner Marty Makary and top U.S. vaccines regulator Vinay Prasad wrote ... six previous doses of a Covid-19 vaccine will benefit from the seventh dose,” Prasad and Makary wrote.