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A Food and Drug Administration advisory committee voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to recommend approval of a monoclonal antibody product to protect newborns and young children from RSV. The Antimicrobial Drugs …
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Is the pandemic over? On the one hand, Covid-19 is clearly still with us. In the U.S., over the past month there was a weekly average of 557 deaths, though …
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Now that the Covid-19 public health emergency has ended, it’s awfully tempting to put the pandemic firmly behind us. But now is the time to look at what we have …
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The Food and Drug Administration approved a second vaccine to protect older adults against RSV on Wednesday, giving a green light to Pfizer’s Abrysvo for adults 60 and older. Early …
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WASHINGTON — House Republicans are ratcheting up pressure on federal agencies’ pandemic response with an unprecedented move: interrogating a career poxvirus scientist’s infectious disease work. In a letter to federal …
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When a new and hoped-to-be safer oral polio vaccine started to make its way into use in March 2021, there was huge optimism that this long-needed tool would help the …
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The world has waited decades for vaccines to protect older adults against RSV. One, made by GSK, was approved by the Food and Drug Administration earlier this month. A second, …
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When scientists, physicians, and public health officials discuss RSV, the talk almost always turns to babies. This ubiquitous infection can leave small children, especially infants, struggling to breathe. It petrifies …
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The latest accounting of HIV incidence in the United States is a mixed bag. Overall estimated new infections dropped 12% in 2021 compared to 2017, according to data released Tuesday …
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