Tag: FDA

• Saturday, December 12th 2020 - 09:54 UTC

  US launches mass-inoculation campaign as FDA approves the Pfizer vaccine

  

  United States health authorities, shipping services and hospitals stood ready on Friday to immediately launch a mass-inoculation campaign of unparalleled dimension, as federal regulators granted emergency approval to the first COVID-19 vaccine in the United States.

• Friday, December 11th 2020 - 09:54 UTC

  Panel of US FDA advisers votes to endorse emergency use of Pfizer vaccine

  

  A panel of outside advisers to the US Food and Drug Administration on Thursday (Dec 10) voted overwhelmingly to endorse emergency use of Pfizer Inc's coronavirus vaccine, paving the way for the agency to authorize the shot for a nation that has lost more than 285,000 lives to Covid-19.

• Monday, October 8th 2012 - 20:37 UTC

  Steroid injection spreading rare form of fungal meningitis infection in the US

  

  The United States Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration are quickly moving to determine the source of the fungal infection causing a rare form of meningitis that has killed seven people in nine states in the last few weeks, as the producer of the steroid injection apparently carrying the infection recalled all of its products.