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RFK Jr.'s FDA officials overrode career staff to limit COVID shots
The FDA's Dr. Vinay Prasad said that he disagreed with the agency's career vaccine reviewers about COVID shot approvals.
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Dr. Vinay Prasad: Bodily Autonomy Applies to Raw Milk, Not Vaccines
This is what it looks like when disinformation doctors pretend to value data and science to further their true objective, ...
Medical Groups Sue RFK Jr. For Assault On Science Over Unlawful COVID-19 Vaccine Rollbacks
Major health groups sue HHS and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over COVID-19 vaccine policy changes for children and pregnant ...
Top FDA vaccine official rejected broad use of Covid-19 shots, documents show
The US Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine official overrode agency experts in May to recommend against the broad use ...
FDA vaccine official restricted COVID vaccine approvals against the advice of agency staff
The government’s top vaccine official working under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently restricted the approval ...
FDA's Prasad overruled agency scientists in restricting use of COVID shots - report
The leader of the U.S. FDA's division that oversees vaccines, Vinay Prasad, overruled the recommendations of his agency's ...
RFK Jr. Influence Evident As Vaccine Chief Overrules Scientists, Limits COVID-19 Vaccine Approval
FDA vaccine head Vinay Prasad restricted Moderna and Novavax COVID vaccines to high-risk groups, overriding staff advice amid ...
Trump-Kennedy attacks on vaccines and public health will kill millions globally
Three simultaneous withdrawals—from the World Health Organization, USAID and the Gavi vaccine alliance—represent a ...
Inside the Collapse of the F.D.A.
Jeneen Interlandi, a domestic correspondent for Opinion and a staff writer at the magazine, writes frequently about public health. For this article, she interviewed dozens of people who have worked ...
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FDA chooses Dr. Vinay Prasad to lead biologics, vaccines division | CNN - CNN International
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 ...
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Controversial oncologist Dr. Vinay Prasad disavowed by dean, lectures to GSBS
Dr. Vinay Prasad delivered a virtual lecture to the Tufts Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences on Feb. 17 following GSBS Dean Daniel Jay ’s disavowal of one of Prasad’ s blog posts, which J ay ...
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FDA chooses Dr. Vinay Prasad to lead biologics, vaccines division
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 ...