by Jordana Choucair | Sep 10, 2021 | Life Sciences
The FDA banned the sale of hundreds of thousands of vaping and electronic cigarette products, but delayed its decision on the industry’s leading company, Juul. The agency faced a court deadline to issue decisions on marketing applications from the vaping giant...
by Jordana Choucair | Sep 9, 2021 | Life Sciences
Covax, the global vaccine-sharing program backed by the World Health Organization, cut its COVID-19 vaccination forecast by about 25 percent for 2021 and will deliver a total of 1.4 billion doses this year, short of its target of 2 billion shots. The slashed...
by Jordana Choucair | Sep 7, 2021 | Life Sciences
Anthony Fauci said that the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 booster shot will likely be ready by September 20. Regulators will need more time to review Moderna’s submission. The Biden administration requested that Moderna submit data for boosting with both the full,...
by Jordana Choucair | Sep 3, 2021 | Life Sciences
A CDC survey of blood donations shows that more than 80 percent of Americans 16 and older have some level of immunity against COVID-19. The results also indicate that about twice as many people have been infected with the virus as have been officially counted. More...
by Jordana Choucair | Sep 2, 2021 | Life Sciences
CDC data indicates that the U.S. has discarded at least 15.1 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines since March 1. Health departments in four states — Texas, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Oklahoma — each reported more than 200,000 wasted doses. Walgreens reportedly...
by Jordana Choucair | Sep 1, 2021 | Life Sciences
Two senior vaccine regulators at the FDA who helped lead its review of COVID-19 vaccine applications will leave the agency this fall. Their departures come as the agency remains without a permanent commissioner and could interrupt its work on COVID-19 vaccines. Dr....
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