The Food and Drug Administration says it has decided to continue approving COVID-19 vaccine updates for seniors and others at ...

Two weeks into his tenure leading the FDA’s biologics center, Vinay Prasad has made his mark with a new framework for ...

The Food and Drug Administration will no longer approve COVID-19 vaccines for healthy people under 65 without rigorous trials ...

For a brief period in 2022, Dr. Vinay Prasad faked a concern about routine vaccines to infect unvaccinated children with ...

The FDA will limit the vaccine’s availability later this year to older adults and those who may be at risk of severe illness.

Previously, updated COVID vaccines had been recommended annually by the CDC for everyone over the age of 6 months. The CDC has historically set vaccine recommendations, while the FDA determines which ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has named Vinay Prasad, an oncologist who has previously criticized FDA leadership and ...

The FDA says the new approach will aim to balance a timely approval process for vaccines, while also weighing “the need for ...

Prasad's appointment marks the latest addition of a medical skeptic and critics of COVID-19 policies to federal health leadership.

Dr. Vinay Prasad, a prominent critic of the pharmaceutical industry and the Food and Drug Administration, has been named to ...

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Advisers to the FDA will debate if the virus has mutated enough since last winter to require a tweak to the formula.