The FDA's Dr. Vinay Prasad said that he disagreed with the agency's career vaccine reviewers about COVID shot approvals.

The US Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine official overrode agency experts in May to recommend against the broad use ...

FDA vaccine head Vinay Prasad restricted Moderna and Novavax COVID vaccines to high-risk groups, overriding staff advice amid ...

Federal documents show he disagreed with conclusions the benefits outweighed the risk of side effects, which are rare.

Today’s edition of quick hits.* Chicago’s latest mass shooting: “Four people have died from gunshot wounds and 14 others have ...

The leader of the U.S. FDA's division that oversees vaccines, Vinay Prasad, overruled the recommendations of his agency's ...

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 ...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. endorsed the expanded use of RSV vaccines for people 50 through 59 years old who are ...

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 ...

Cell and gene therapy leaders say the agency’s decision to remove the Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies that had been ...