Julie Steenhuysen

1 week ago | conexiant.com | Dan Levine |Julie Steenhuysen

The FDA has named oncologist Vinay Prasad, MD, as the director of its Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research. In that role, Dr. Prasad, a frequent critic of the pharmaceutical industry, will oversee the regulation of costly and complicated biologic drugs, including vaccines, gene therapies, and blood supply. He succeeds Peter Marks, MD, who oversaw the approval of COVID-19 vaccines.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Dan Levine |Julie Steenhuysen

By Dan Levine and Julie Steenhuysen(Reuters) -The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has named Vinay Prasad, an oncologist who has previously criticized FDA leadership and COVID-19 mandates, as the director of its Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, the agency said on Tuesday. In that role, Prasad, a frequent critic of the pharmaceutical industry, will oversee the regulation of costly and complicated biologic drugs, including vaccines, gene therapies, and blood supply.

1 week ago | today.westlaw.com | Michele Gershberg |Julie Steenhuysen |David Gregorio

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The White House wants to reduce U.S. health spending by more than a quarter next year, with the National Institutes of Health and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention facing the brunt of billions of dollars in cuts....

2 weeks ago | today.westlaw.com | Ahmed Aboulenein |Stephen Coates |Julie Steenhuysen |Nancy Lapid

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. reprised various misleading claims about vaccines this week, including that the measles vaccine contains cells from aborted fetuses and the mumps vaccination does not work.

2 weeks ago | usnews.com | Julie Steenhuysen

By Julie SteenhuysenCHICAGO (Reuters) -Thousands of Americans campaigning for the Novavax COVID-19 booster got some good news this week: the FDA signaled it might still win approval after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr cast doubt on its efficacy. The Novavax vaccine is the only COVID-19 booster in the United States that does not use messenger RNA technology - which some states have begun to ban - and the only option for many people who cannot or will not take an mRNA vaccine.