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CDC recommends Covid boosters for kids ages 5 to 11 after advisory committee vote

20.05.2022

A key vaccine advisory panel voted Thursday to recommend that children between the ages of 5 and 11 should be offered a third dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at …

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First Opinion

Opinion: Flawed FDA safety requirements are hamstringing a highly effective treatment for severe schizophrenia

05.05.2022

For medications with serious safety concerns the Food and Drug Administration mandates a Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS) “to help ensure the benefits of the medication outweigh its risks.” …

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First Opinion

Opinion: HHS needs to step up so CDC’s new guidelines won’t be ‘a bridge to nowhere’ for most Americans living with chronic pain

29.04.2022

To update its controversial 2016 guidelines for how to treat the millions of Americans living with chronic pain, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been doing its …

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First Opinion

Opinion: Access to kidney transplantation is improving for everyone, but more work remains to be done

22.04.2022

Organ donation and transplantation are saving more lives in the United States than ever before, thanks to concerted work by stakeholders from across the country: donor families, organ procurement organizations, …

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Health Tech

Investigating FDA’s breakthrough devices, big data ethics, & AI for colon cancer

19.04.2022

You’re reading the web edition of STAT Health Tech, our guide to how tech is transforming the life sciences. Sign up to get this newsletter delivered in your inbox every Tuesday and …

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Health Tech

As FDA offers breakthrough designation to device makers, patients and providers are left with questions

18.04.2022

Since launching in 2017, an ambitious and secretive Food and Drug Administration program to speed up medical device development has helped at least 44 authorized devices hit the market. There …

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First Opinion

Opinion: FDA needs to follow through on its plan to ban carbadox in animal feed

15.04.2022

An antibiotic known as carbadox can damage genes and cause cancer. The European Union, Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom have banned its use for years. So why does the …

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Coronavirus / First Opinion

Opinion: India’s drug regulator has ignored red alerts on Covaxin, imperiling millions of lives

15.04.2022

In a shocking turn of events, the World Health Organization warned United Nations agencies against procuring Covaxin, India’s indigenously developed and manufactured Covid-19 vaccine, just five months after granting approval …

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First Opinion

Opinion: 3 steps ARPA-H needs to take to accomplish its mission

07.04.2022

Since its formation in the 1950s, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, better known as DARPA, has revolutionized the modern world through its model of funding radical innovation. While DARPA …

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