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Two weeks into his tenure leading the FDA’s biologics center, Vinay Prasad has made his mark with a new framework for ...
The Food and Drug Administration will no longer approve COVID-19 vaccines for healthy people under 65 without rigorous trials ...
Government vaccine advisers are meeting to decide if the recipe for COVID-19 vaccines needs updating for this fall and winter ...
The FDA says the new approach will aim to balance a timely approval process for vaccines, while also weighing “the need for ...
The FDA’s new approach to boosters could mean that kids will no longer be able to get vaccinated against the disease to begin with.
The US Food and Drug Administration has named Dr. Vinay Prasad, a hematologist oncologist, to lead its Center for Biologics ...
The Food and Drug Administration says it has decided to continue approving COVID-19 vaccine updates ... and his new top vaccines official, Dr. Vinay Prasad. Vaccine manufacturers will need to ...
The FDA plans to limit access to certain high-risk groups and also told Pfizer and Moderna to update their warning labels ...
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 question on many minds among FDA rank-and-file in attendance was: Which Prasad would show up? The 2010s Prasad -- a ...
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 ...
In his new role with the FDA, Dr. Vinay Prasad will oversee the regulation of costly drugs, including vaccines, gene therapies, and blood supply.