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Biden administration delays ban on menthol cigarettes until 2024
The Biden administration has once again delayed banning menthol cigarettes, infuriating officials of public health groups who say the products are responsible for taking hundreds of thousands of American lives. On Wednesday, the White House quietly updated its Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs website to reflect that any final ban on menthol wouldn’t take place until at […]
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Supreme Court declines to hear case challenging FDA authority to reject flavored e-cigarettes
A woman smokes an E-Cigarette at Digital Ciggz in San Rafael, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear arguments in a case challenging the Food and Drug Administration’s authority to reject approvals of flavored electronic cigarettes. The case is one of several challenges to the FDA’s regulation of […]
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FDA approves updated Novavax Covid vaccine as Pfizer, Moderna shots roll out in U.S.
A vial labelled “Novavax V COVID-19 Vaccine” is seen in this illustration taken January 16, 2022. Dado Ruvic | Reuters The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved Novavax‘s updated Covid vaccine under emergency use, putting the shot on track to roll out weeks after new jabs from Pfizer and Moderna reached Americans. Novavax’s new […]
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CDC advisors recommend Pfizer maternal RSV vaccine to protect infants
A doctor vaccinates an infant against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in a treatment room of her paediatric practice. Swen Pförtner | Picture Alliance | Getty Images The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s independent panel of advisors on Friday recommended Pfizer‘s maternal vaccine that protects infants from respiratory syncytial virus, the leading cause of hospitalization […]
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CDC advisors recommend updated Covid vaccines for all Americans ages 6 months and up
A vial of the Moderna coronavirus booster vaccine targeting BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron subvariants is pictured at Skippack Pharmacy in Schwenksville, Pennsylvania, Sept. 8, 2022. Hannah Beier | Reuters An independent advisory panel to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday recommended that all Americans ages 6 months and up receive updated Covid […]
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FDA approves updated Covid vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna as hospitalizations rise
A health-care worker prepares a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at a vaccination clinic in the Peabody Institute Library in Peabody, Massachusetts, Jan. 26, 2022. Vanessa Leroy | Bloomberg | Getty Images The Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved updated Covid vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna, putting the shots on track to reach […]
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Can you use expired Covid tests? What to know as cases rise, new variants emerge
In this photo illustration, Abbott’s at-home covid-19 rapid test kits are seen on display in Orlando. Paul Hennessy | LightRocket | Getty Images As Covid cases surge again in the U.S., Americans are digging out unused at-home tests that they stashed earlier on in the pandemic. Many of those tests may have passed their expiration […]
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Why startups are investing thousands and thousands to make prescription drugs and semiconductors in house
In-area producing may audio like science fiction but it is going on previously, albeit on a very modest scale. It is really a fledgling market place that analysts and numerous startups are projecting will get off. “If you appear at pharma, semiconductors, splendor and health items and potentially foodstuff in the sense of like new […]
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Sage Therapeutics stock plunges more than 50% after FDA denies wider use of postpartum depression drug
In this photo illustration, the Sage Therapeutics logo of a biopharmaceutical company seen on a smartphone and on a pc screen. Pavlo Gonchar | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Shares of Sage Therapeutics fell more than 50% on Monday after the Food and Drug Administration approved the biotech company’s oral drug zuranolone for […]
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Eli Lilly says obesity drug helped boost weight loss to 26%, highest seen in late-stage trials
The Eli Lilly logo is shown on one of the company’s offices in San Diego, California, September 17, 2020. Mike Blake | Reuters An Eli Lilly experimental drug helped patients lose about 26% of their weight on average following extended use or intensive lifestyle changes, according to results from two studies released Thursday. It’s the […]
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