Following the recommendations of its vaccine advisory committee, the Food and Drug Administration gave emergency use authorization to Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine booster dose for certain…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced that, on behalf of the agency, the U.S. Marshals Service conducted a mass seizure of FDA-regulated spices and…
COVID-19. We’ve been living with it for what sometimes seems like forever. Given the number of deaths that have occurred from the disease, it’s perhaps…
The key scientific advisory council of the Food and Drug Administration has voted to deny authorization of a “booster” shot of Pfizer’s mRNA vaccine to…
Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first COVID-19 vaccine. The vaccine has been known as the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine, and will now…
The following quote is attributed to Steven M. Solomon, M.P.H., D.V.M., director of the FDA’s Center for Veterinary Medicine: “The FDA is dedicated to taking…
The FDA authorization is only for certain immunocompromised individuals. Other fully vaccinated individuals do not need an additional vaccine dose right now. Today, the…
An FDA warning on epilepsy drugs may pose greater risk to patients. Most seizure medications carry a life-and-death warning: Taking this drug may increase suicide…
Process plagued by missing efficacy data and questionable evidence; Some experts argue that FDA’s standards for evidence are too low. Since the US Food and…
The agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory designed the device for coronavirus patients with rapid production in mind. The license is being offered for free to manufacturers….
U.S. physicians are increasingly ordering medications for children for conditions that are not approved by the Food and Drug Administration, according to a Rutgers study….
A new study led by Yale University reveals that nearly one out of every three drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have…
The US FDA has finally approved the first genetically engineered animals for human consumption. The fast-growing salmon has been assessed as safe by the FDA….
Dr. Chil-Yong Kang and his team at The University of Western Ontario have been studying HIV for the last twenty years and working on a…