Veronika Kyrylenko

5 days ago | thenewamerican.com | Veronika Kyrylenko

Genus PLC, a multinational biotech firm specializing in animal genetics, announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved its genetically edited pig for entry into the American food supply. The pig has been engineered to resist a respiratory virus, marking the first time the FDA has authorized the commercial sale of a CRISPR-edited food animal in the United States.

6 days ago | thenewamerican.com | Veronika Kyrylenko

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has just announced a new initiative ostensibly aimed at an “understanding of autism” and other chronic diseases.

2 weeks ago | thenewamerican.com | Veronika Kyrylenko

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has dealt a setback to President Donald Trump’s sweeping executive order on elections. The order, issued March 25, aims to reshape national voter registration rules. But Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly called parts of it unconstitutional and halted their enforcement. She wrote in a 120-page opinion released Thursday:Our Constitution entrusts Congress and the States — not the President — with the authority to regulate federal elections.

2 weeks ago | thenewamerican.com | Veronika Kyrylenko

Biotech company Novavax says it’s nearing the finish line with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for full approval of its Covid-19 vaccine. After a prolonged wait, the company issued a cautiously optimistic statement on Wednesday:We believe that our Biologics License Application (BLA) is approvable based on conversations with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), as of our Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) date of April 1 and through today.

3 weeks ago | sgtreport.com | Veronika Kyrylenko

by Veronika Kyrylenko, The New American:The U.S. government, under the direction of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is assembling what may soon become one of the largest centralized health databases in American history.