49 h. ago Trump's FDA drops Covid vaccine bombshell as Pfizer and Moderna admit heart damage risk

The FDA is forcing Pfizer and Moderna to expand warning labels about the risks of two forms of heart damage, myocarditis and pericarditis, that have been tied to Covid vaccines.

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66 h. ago Biden officials hid deadly health risks of COVID vaccines, bombshell Congressional report reveals

The Biden administration has been accused of purposefully covering up potentially deadly side effects of the Covid vaccines.

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3 d. ago Moderna withdraws application for US approval of combined flu

After talks with Food and Drug Administration, company plans to resubmit vaccine application later this year Moderna said on Wednesday it had withdrawn an application seeking approval for its flu and Covid combination vaccine candidate after discussions with the US Food and Drug Administration.The company said it would resubmit the application later this year with vaccine efficacy data from a late-stage trial of its experimental seasonal influenza vaccine, which it expects to report this summer. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Donald Trump Jr says ‘maybe one day’ when asked if would ever run for president – US politics live

President’s eldest son says ‘that calling is there’ while speaking at the Qatar Economic Forum Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that his administration will move forward with developing the so-called “Golden Dome” missile defense system that he envisions will protect the United States from possible foreign strikes using ground and space-based weapons.Flanked by the US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, in the Oval Office, Trump also said that he wanted the project to be operational before he left office. He added that Republicans had agreed to allocate $25bn in initial funding and Canada had expressed an interest in taking part.The Trump administration said it will permit use of Covid vaccines by adults over 65 and those with certain medical conditions in the fall, raising questions about whether some people who want a vaccine will be able to get one. The FDA framework, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, urges companies to conduct large, lengthy studies before tweaked ...

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3 d. ago COVID vaccines are only approved for elderly and a few others as RFK continues to reshape how Americans fight disease

Americans over the age of 65 and other select groups will be approved for the vaccine

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4 d. ago Trump officials set new requirements for COVID vaccines in healthy adults and children

Federal health officials will no longer routinely approve annual COVID-19 shots for younger adults and children who are healthy

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4 d. ago Vaccine maker’s £1bn UK investment to create ‘hundreds of high

BioNTech developed mRNA vaccines, and cancer immunotherapies notably used to tackle Covid-19.

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8 d. ago FDA set to change requirements to get vaccines approved as RFK Jr continues to push skepticism about their use

New FDA framework on changes coronavirus vaccine approval will be released “in the coming days,” FDA Commissioner Marty Makary said Thursday.

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1 week ago Critic of Covid boosters set to enact tough agenda as top US vaccines official

Vinay Prasad, outspoken critic of pharmaceutical industry and of his peers in public health, to take over CBERVinay Prasad, an oncologist and hematologist who has called for more regulatory scrutiny of pharmaceuticals, including Covid vaccines, was named the top US vaccines official earlier this month.Marty Makary, commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), announced in a 6 May email obtained by the Guardian that Prasad would now lead the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER), which oversees biological products like blood, vaccines, and cellular and gene therapies. Biotech stocks plunged at the news. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Weight loss jabs like Ozempic 'could prevent the risk of cancers' as British researchers plan major trial to see if drugs can provide a new 'weapon' in fight against soaring rates of the disease

Medications such as Wegovy, Mounjaro and Ozempic were found to have disease-prevention qualities beyond their weight-loss benefits.

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2 w. ago Trump’s failed Surgeon General pick lands on her feet with a job at RFK Jr’s HHS

Janette Nesheiwat’s nomination was pulled after her education credentials came under scrutiny and a Trump ally criticized her endorsement of the Covid vaccine.

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2 w. ago I was a super fit cyclist until I had the Moderna Covid vaccine... what happened next left me wishing I was dead

Just a few years ago, British Danielle Pieton was a super fit road cyclist who had just achieved her long-held dream of moving to France.

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2 w. ago Linda Nolan's stepson dies months after star as they fought devastating cancer battles 'side by side'

Linda Nolan's step-son who had been fighting metastatic throat cancer has sadly died four months after the singer also passed away following a fight with the disease

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2 w. ago Linda Nolan's stepson dies after devastating incurable cancer battle

Linda Nolan's step-son who had been fighting metastatic throat cancer has sadly died four months after the singer also passed away following a fight with the disease

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2 w. ago Fewer than half of Americans trust the FDA and CDC to do their job, poll finds

Low levels of trust in federal scientific agencies have been shaped by politics

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3 w. ago Marjorie Taylor Greene posts rambling rant about ‘rogue judicial system’ and occupying Ukraine

Firebrand Georgia Republican handled a range of subjects in her Friday afternoon tweet, including Iran, Ukraine, the war in Iraq, the Covid vaccine, as well as what she called the ‘evil transgender assault against our children’

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3 w. ago Covid vaccine: Brits warned of risk this Bank Holiday weekend as cases continue to surge

Covid cases in the UK are rising week-on-week 🚨

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4 w. ago How ‘revenge of the Covid contrarians’ unleashed by RFK Jr puts broader vaccine advances at risk

The health secretary has pledged to fight chronic illness, but experts say he risks increasing it with department cutsThe US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, entered office with a pledge to tackle the US’s chronic disease epidemic and give infectious disease a “break”. In at least one of those goals, Kennedy has been expeditious.Experts said as Kennedy makes major cuts in public health in his first weeks in office, the infrastructure built to mitigate Covid-19 has become a clear target – an aim that has the dual effect of weakening immunization efforts as the US endures the largest measles outbreak since 2000. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Letter from the Pope gave Renfrew man 'hope' to fight rare genetic brain disease

Michael Conway paid tribute as he revealed a special connection with the late Pope Francis which gave him hope to fight Adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD).

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last month Global study on Covid vaccine safety falls victim to Trump cuts

Groundbreaking project has produced some of the world’s most comprehensive studies on vaccine efficacy and safetyThe largest ever global study into the safety of Covid-19 vaccines has been terminated just 13 months shy of completion, after becoming caught up in the Trump administration’s sweeping funding cuts.The Global Vaccine Data Network, which was established in 2019 by the New Zealand-based vaccinologist Helen Petousis-Harris and the US-based vaccinologist Steven Black, has already produced some of the world’s most comprehensive studies on vaccine efficacy and safety, based on data from more than 300 million people. Continue reading...

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