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Johnson & Johnson requests FDA approval for vaccine booster doses
The FDA’s independent vaccine advisory committee meets next week to review data on booster shots from both Johnson & Johnson and Moderna.
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CDC chief overrules panel, OKs boosters for health care workers
Panelists “did not buy the need in occupational or institutional settings.”
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COVID-19 claims more than 675,000 U.S. lives, surpassing the 1918 flu
In some ways, the United States has failed to learn from the mistakes of the past.
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Moderna vaccine more effective than Pfizer and J&J
“Understanding differences in [vaccine effectiveness] by vaccine product can guide individual choices and policy recommendations regarding vaccine...
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Even those who just test positive at more risk for long COVID: CDC
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Three JAK inhibitors get boxed warnings, modified indications
The FDA is limiting all approved uses of tofacitinib, baricitinib, and upadacitinib to patients who have not responded well to TNF blockers, to...
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EDs saw more benzodiazepine overdoses, but fewer patients overall, in 2020
Fentanyl became increasingly involved in benzodiazepine overdose deaths through the first half of the year.
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CDC panel unanimously backs Pfizer vax, fortifying FDA approval
The risk of myocarditis after a COVID infection was 6 to 34 times higher than the risk after receiving an mRNA vaccine.
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FDA fully approves Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine
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CDC officially endorses third dose of mRNA vaccines for immunocompromised
Just hours after the FDA updated its EUA for COVID vaccines, the CDC has recommended a third dose for those who are at higher risk for severe or...
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CDC: Vaccination may cut risk of COVID reinfection in half