Lizzy Lawrence
FDA Reporter at STAT
Reporter covering the Food and Drug Administration for @statnews. Signal is lizzylaw.53, 🦋 is https://t.co/tKaJmrKTOV
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5 days ago |
bostonglobe.com | Lizzy Lawrence |Isabella Cueto
On Wednesday, the Department of Health and Human Services confirmed it was canceling more than $700 million worth of contracts with Moderna to develop, test, and license mRNA vaccines for flu strains that could cause future pandemics, including the H5N1 bird flu virus.
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5 days ago |
statnews.com | Lizzy Lawrence |Isabella Cueto
WASHINGTON — mRNA, a Nobel-winning technology harnessed by Trump officials to create Covid shots in record time, is becoming a political reject as the nation’s leaders openly embrace vaccine skepticism. Republican lawmakers and federal health officials alike are shunning messenger RNA, a basic building block of biology that proved its value during Covid, and that holds promise for combating the next pandemic and unlocking new cancer treatments.
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flipboard.com | Lizzy Lawrence |Isabella Cueto
19 hours ago"Our members are surviving with grace," says Justine Adhiambo Obura, the chairperson of No Sex for Fish. Goats and Soda No Sex For Fish: How Women In A Fishing Village Are Fighting For Power She's talking about a cooperative of 20 women who did the unthinkable. They are fishmongers from the village of …
FDA chief pushes back on senators’ criticism, says Covid booster trials should take ‘roughly a year’
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statnews.com | Lizzy Lawrence
WASHINGTON — Lawmakers grilled Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary on the agency’s new Covid-19 vaccine framework, the accidental firings of infant formula scientists, and the pace of regulatory approval for rare disease drugs at a Senate budget hearing on Thursday. Makary responded at times with frustration, refuting lawmakers’ reports of slow-downs at the agency and quibbling with them over his and health secretary Robert F.
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2 weeks ago |
statnews.com | Lizzy Lawrence |Helen Branswell
WASHINGTON — Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary promised stakeholders last week that the agency’s new Covid-19 vaccine framework would answer all of their questions. But the framework has perhaps created as much confusion as clarity.
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Former FDA commish Rob Califf kicked off STAT's Breakthrough West summit today, calling out Sec. Kennedy's vaccine rhetoric and cuts to HHS: “My primary worry is not the FDA, my worry is the American public.” https://t.co/cQWvlh6oen
RT @statnews: . @DrCaliff_FDA on RFK Jr. #STATBreakthrough https://t.co/T4WhGDDm9y
RT @statnews: And we’re off! STAT’s @matthewherper begins our #STATBreakthrough Summit with a conversation with @DrCaliff_FDA. They’re c…
