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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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