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The US Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine official overrode agency experts in May to recommend against the broad use ...
The government’s top vaccine official working under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently restricted the approval ...
The FDA's Dr. Vinay Prasad said that he disagreed with the agency's career vaccine reviewers about COVID shot approvals.
Records show that a top U.S. regulator rejected the recommendations of agency experts and limited the use of Covid vaccines.
FDA vaccine head Vinay Prasad restricted Moderna and Novavax COVID vaccines to high-risk groups, overriding staff advice amid ...
The leader of the U.S. FDA's division that oversees vaccines, Vinay Prasad, overruled the recommendations of his agency's ...
Vinay Prasad is taking on several big roles at the FDA, solidifying his position as a top adviser to Commissioner Marty ...
While both the Novavax vaccine and the newest generation of the mRNA Moderna vaccines had been signed off on by about 30 FDA vaccine officials, Prasad ended up writing overrides for each, restricting ...
Vinay Prasad—the controversial head of vaccine regulation at the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)—has been named FDA chief medical and scientific officer.1 Traditionally separate roles, his new ...
FDA Commissioner Marty Makary has told staff that Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research Director Vinay Prasad has been given two additional roles: chief medical officer and chief scientific ...
The US Food and Drug Administration has named Dr. Vinay Prasad, a hematologist oncologist, to lead its Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, the division that oversees vaccines and ...
Analysis: Vinay Prasad has never shied away from controversy. STAT reviews his previous remarks on the FDA, vaccines, autism, RFK Jr., Covid, and more.