September 2nd, 20230
LANSING – Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel and a bipartisan coalition of 33 attorneys general called on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and its Center for Tobacco Products to do more to protect kids from e-cigarettes. Nessel’s suggestions include limiting the flavors that draw kids in, reducing nicotine levels to...
December 2nd, 20210The company that produces Al kanater brand tahini is recalling certain lot codes of the product because it has the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) made the announcement on Tuesday. The product is distributed by International Golden Foods, Inc. (IGF) of Bensenville, IL.
The...
August 23rd, 20210On Monday, the U.S. drug regulator granted full approval to the Pfizer/BioNTech SE COVID-19 vaccine that had earned emergency-use authorization in December, making it the first to secure such U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) validation as health authorities struggle to win over vaccine skeptics.
The FDA approved the two-dose...
July 28th, 20210WASHINGTON, D.C. — As new data from Pfizer shows a "booster" shot of its COVID-19 vaccine provides strong protection against the highly-contagious Delta variant, federal officials reiterated that Americans don’t need one quite yet.
U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy told CNN on Wednesday that people "do not need to go out and...
June 16th, 20210On Wednesday, a U.S. hospital will give the first infusion of an expensive, controversial new Alzheimer’s drug from Biogen Inc. before Medicare had even said what it will pay for — and with some doctors upset by its approval last week.
The first administration of the drug, Aduhelm, outside of a clinical trial is scheduled to take...
May 11th, 20210U.S. regulators authorized Pfizer and BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine for use in children as young as 12 and said they could begin receiving shots as soon as Thursday, widening the country’s inoculation program as vaccination rates have slowed significantly.
This is the first COVID-19 vaccine to be authorized in the U.S. for ages 12...
April 14th, 20210Advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) met Wednesday to review blood clot cases among people who received the Johnson & Johnson (J&J) COVID-19 vaccine. But the committee of experts declined to vote on whether use of the vaccine should resume, meaning the "pause" on the vaccine's use will remain at...
December 19th, 20200On Friday, Moderna Inc’s coronavirus vaccine became the second to receive emergency use authorization (EUA) from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), welcome news to a nation with a staggering COVID-19 death toll of more than 307,000 lives lost.
Millions of doses of the Moderna vaccine are expected to be added to the U.S....
December 17th, 20200Another COVID-19 vaccine appears ready in the pipeline, as an outside panel of advisors to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) overwhelmingly endorsed Moderna’s vaccine on Thursday.
The committee of outside experts makes recommendations to the FDA, which it did for Pfizer’s vaccine just last week. The FDA generally goes...
December 13th, 20200MICHIGAN — A few days after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized emergency use of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, trucks carrying the vaccine left the company’s plant in Portage, Michigan on Sunday.
An estimated 2.9 million vaccines are expected to be delivered this week, with priority given to health care workers...
December 9th, 20200LONDON — Britain’s medicine regulator has advised that people with a history of significant allergies do not get the Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine after two people reported severe adverse reactions on the first day of rollout.
Starting with the elderly and frontline workers, Britain began mass vaccinating its population on...
