Heather Platt

Mar 25, 2025 | contagionlive.com | Sophia Abene |Heather Platt

The European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has recommended the approval of Capvaxive (Pneumococcal 21-valent Conjugate Vaccine) for adults aged 18 and older to prevent invasive disease and pneumonia caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae. A final decision from the European Commission (EC) is expected by Q2 2025, which, if approved, will extend Capvaxive’s authorization to the EU, Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway.

Mar 25, 2025 | contagionlive.com | Sophia Abene |Heather Platt

The European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has recommended the approval of Capvaxive (Pneumococcal 21-valent Conjugate Vaccine) for adults 18 and older to prevent invasive disease and pneumonia caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae. The European Commission (EC) is expected to review the recommendation, with a final decision anticipated by Q2 2025. If approved, the vaccine will be available in the EU, Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway.

Mar 11, 2025 | latimes.com | Heather Platt

Chef Okay Inak, who grew up in Turkey and spent time in New York cooking at fine-dining institutions Per Se and Eleven Madison Park as well as Mélisse in L.A., is alone in his tiny 16-seat restaurant on an industrial stretch of 12th Street in downtown L.A. It’s his “day off,” which he spends prepping food for the week. Inak has no other staff at Sora because the financial landscape for restaurants in L.A. is soberingly challenging. His only employee is himself.

Nov 14, 2024 | roadbook.com | Heather Platt

To talk about farm-to-table restaurants in California, which grows more produce than any other US state, is to talk about Californian dining as a whole. Here, a locavore ethos began to materialise in the 1960s in response to rapidly industrialising food systems and really took off a decade later when Alice Waters opened Chez Panisse.

Oct 11, 2024 | latimes.com | Heather Platt

When director Alexander Payne set out to create the 2004 film “Sideways,” based on the then-unpublished novel by Rex Pickett about two friends’ wine-fueled visit to the Santa Ynez Valley, his intention was just to make a funny film. “I just wanted to make a movie and I loved the fact that it was about wine,” says Payne, who acknowledges he had no way of knowing what the film would become.