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U.S. Bans Mercury in Vaccines Linked to Miscarriage, Autism, and Brain Damage After Decades of Scientific Warnings and Regulatory Inaction
In a sweeping move to eliminate mercury exposure from vaccines, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert ...
Top FDA vaccine regulator abruptly exits post
DIRECTING A CHANGING CDC — The Senate voted to confirm Susan Monarez as the next CDC director Tuesday, marking an end to the ...
FDA’s top vaccine regulator departs amid conservative criticism
Vinay Prasad, the top vaccine regulator and chief scientific officer at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and a critic of the agency’s COVID-19 policies, has departed after being on the job ...
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Vinay Prasad departs FDA amid conservative criticism, controversy over Sarepta gene therapy
Vinay Prasad, M.D., has left the FDA less than three months into the role as director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation ...
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Vinay Prasad is my former student and friend. His departure from FDA is a loss for American medicine
It is hard to imagine someone more equipped and more dedicated to vetting treatments than Vinay Prasad,” writes his former ...
FDA commissioner predicts ‘record’ drug approvals this year
FDA Commissioner Marty Makary said the FDA’s review process will not slow down despite layoffs at the Department of Health ...
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FDA vaccine official restricted COVID vaccine approvals against the ...
WASHINGTON — The government’s top vaccine official working under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently restricted the approval of two COVID-19 vaccines, disregarding recommendations ...
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A former CDC vaccine adviser has words for RFK Jr.
Last month, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired an influential committee of vaccine advisers to the CDC. What that ...