FDA says Moderna can fill its vials with 40% more COVID-19 vaccine to increase the number of doses in each from 10 to 14 and ease production bottlenecks FDA regulators told Moderna it can fill its vials with 40% more vaccine on Friday It comes after Moderna asked regulators to allow more overfill to ease … Read more
The US is one step closer to having a single-dose coronavirus vaccine after Johnson & Johnson asked the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to authorize its vaccine on Thursday night. Now that it has submitted its application for emergency use authorization, Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine could be greenlit within weeks. The US has an agreement, … Read more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared a new rapid, handheld blood test that could detect whether or not patients have mild concussions. The test, known as iSTAT and manufactured by Abbott Laboratories, looks for specific proteins present in the blood after head trauma. What’s more, results are returned within 15 minutes. Researchers … Read more
FDA head urges states to start giving COVID-19 vaccines to elderly Americans and move on to lower priority groups in a desperate attempt to speed the US rollout’s glacial pace FDA Commissioner Dr Stephen Hahn said it’s ‘reasonable’ to vaccinate lower priority people if states’ doses are going unused The US has only vaccinated 6.25 … Read more
Quickly turning around results of the process to detect the new ‘super-covid’ variant ‘isn’t an urgent need,’ because the findings won’t change how the US handles the pandemic, a CDC official told DailyMail.com. ‘For less urgent sequencing, when there isn’t an urgent need to get the data turned around quickly, it’s much more efficient to … Read more
A former FDA head is urging the US to start vaccinating more groups of Americans against COVID-19 immediately and stop holding back millions of doses to give as booster shots for those who have had the first jab. ‘Right now, every shot in an arm is a win,’ former Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioner … Read more
A doctor has slammed the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for not approving AstraZeneca-University of Oxford’s coronavirus vaccine. On Wednesday, Great Britain became the fist country in the world to grant authorization to the COVID-19 jab. The vaccine holds great appeal because it’s inexpensive – costing $3 to $4 per dose – and can … Read more
Donald Trump has tweeted in celebration after a second COVID-19 vaccine was made available, with Moderna’s drug being approved by the U.S., in a world first. ‘Congratulations, the Moderna vaccine is now available!’ the president said on Friday night. It is the second coronavirus vaccine authorized in the U.S., exactly one week after Pfizer’s shot … Read more
Experts have officially endorsed Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine, all but assuring the shot will get the FDA’s emergency approval by the end of the week. FDA experts are meeting today to decide whether to endorse Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine to be approved by the agency. Agency scientists confirmed that the shot is more than 94 percent effective … Read more
FDA reveals vials of Pfizer’s vaccine contain extra doses that could be given to 6.86 million Americans by Christmas Pharmacists across the U.S. have discovered vials of Pfizer’s coronavirus shot contain up to 40% more vaccine than expected Many vials have enough of the scarce vaccine to give six or seven doses, instead of the … Read more