F.D.A. Approves R.S.V. Shot for Infants
The Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved a shot to protect infants and vulnerable toddlers against respiratory syncytial virus, or R.S.V., offering one of the first protections…
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F.D.A. Approves First U.S. Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pill
“We need to make it affordable and available,” Senator Patty Murray, a Democrat from Washington State and a co-sponsor of the bill, said in an interview in May. “Let’s provide women what…
F.D.A. Panel Advises Vaccine Makers to Aim at Only One Covid Variant
Why It Matters: Some people remain at risk.Pfizer, Moderna and Novavax have made it clear that they need time to make tens of millions of doses of the shots that would be available in the…
F.D.A. Panel Recommends R.S.V. Shot to Protect Infants
The NewsA Food and Drug Administration advisory panel recommended approval of a monoclonal antibody shot aimed at preventing a potentially lethal pathogen, respiratory syncytial virus, or…
F.D.A. Approves Pfizer’s R.S.V. Vaccine for Older Adults
Why It Matters: Older adults are at a higher risk.Each year, about 60,000 adults 65 and older are hospitalized with R.S.V. and about 6,000 to 10,000 die from the virus, the F.D.A. estimated.…
F.D.A. Panel Recommends R.S.V. Vaccine to Protect Young Infants
An advisory panel to the Food and Drug Administration voted on Thursday in favor of approving a vaccine by Pfizer to prevent the severe respiratory virus that is a potentially deadly threat…
F.D.A. Approves New Drug to Treat Hot Flashes
The NewsThe Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved the first nonhormonal medication to treat hot flashes in menopausal women, offering a potential remedy for the symptoms of…
F.D.A. Ends Ban on Blood Donations From Gay and Bisexual Men
The NewsThe Food and Drug Administration announced on Thursday that it had formally ended the agency’s wide-ranging prohibition on blood donations from gay and bisexual men, a longstanding…
F.D.A. Advisers Say Benefits of Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pill Outweigh Risks
A panel of advisers to the Food and Drug Administration voted unanimously on Wednesday that the benefits of making a birth control pill available without a prescription outweigh the risks,…
F.D.A. Advisers Weigh Allowing First U.S. Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pill
It was like a tale of two birth control pills.At a hearing Tuesday to consider whether the Food and Drug Administration should authorize the country’s first over-the-counter birth control…