The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has declined to accept a request from Moderna to review its first mRNA seasonal flu vaccine, the company said Tuesday, in another setback for the technology that has been the target of Trump administration health officials. The agency told Moderna that its application did not contain an “adequate and … Read more
In medical school, the professor who taught me about the flu shared what he considered to be the gold standard method of diagnosing a case of the virus: the £20 note test. The basic premise was that if someone said they had put a £20 note on the garden gate and it was yours for … Read more
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s controversial vaccine advisory committee will reconvene later this week under a new chairman, federal officials announced Monday. Martin Kulldorff is leaving the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices to take a leadership role at the Department of Health and Human Services, officials said. Dr. Kirk … Read more