Who Will Be the Next F.D.A. Chief?
Early in the coronavirus outbreak, Dr. Sharfstein urged public health officials to focus on protecting racial and ethnic minorities, poor people and others who face...
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FDA Agrees Moderna Can Increase Vaccine Supply in Each Vial
WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration has informed the drugmaker Moderna that it can put up to 40 percent more coronavirus vaccine into each...
Drug Prices by Committee: One Way Biden Could Lower Costs
We’re not accustomed to openly managing this trade-off in the United States, partly because of the power of health care interest groups, and perhaps because...
Moderna’s Simple Fix to Vaccine Supply: More Doses in Each Vial
Moderna is asking United States regulators to approve what it says could be a remarkably simple proposal to speed up the immunization of Americans against...
Biden Pledges to Speed Flow of Vaccines to the States
WASHINGTON — President Biden, under intense pressure to speed up the pace of coronavirus vaccination, said Tuesday that his administration was nearing a deal with...
Pfizer Will Ship Fewer Covid-19 Vaccine Vials to Account for ‘Extra’ Doses
But federal health officials who manage the government’s contracts for syringes told the F.D.A. that more than 70 percent of the sites were using the...
Pfizer Will Ship Fewer Vaccine Vials to Account for ‘Extra’ Doses
In December, pharmacists made the happy discovery that they could squeeze an extra vaccine dose out of Pfizer vials that were supposed to contain only...
Why Biden Inherited a Covid-19 Vaccine Supply Unlikely to Grow Before April
Johnson & Johnson is also in preliminary talks with Merck, a major American pharmaceutical company, about using its production lines, one of several ideas that...
Biden Inherits a Vaccine Supply Unlikely to Grow Before April
As the Biden administration takes power with a pledge to tame the most dire public health crisis in a century, one pillar of its strategy...
U.S. Vaccine Supply: What to Know
Demand for vaccines is skyrocketing as the United States grapples with a record death toll from Covid-19 and the threat of new, more contagious variants....