The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is defending its controversial new guidance on coronavirus testing after writing from various medical groups and accusations of political intervention. Earlier this week, the CDC quickly revised its guidance on coronavirus testing, dropping its previous recommendation to test anyone who came in close …
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Text size Dreamstime Older adults who participated in Moderna‘s Phase 1 trial of its Covid-19 vaccine responded just as well as younger adults, according to data, the biotech company presented Wednesday morning to a key Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Advisory panel. This is important because Covid-19 is not …
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted emergency authorization to Abbott Laboratories for a $ 5 rapid response COVID-19 antigen test that is about the size of a credit card. The inexpensive, rapid-response test could be administered in an office of a physician as a school nurse and uses …
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Scientists and public health officials said Monday they are skeptical overpowering plasma is an effective treatment for patients hospitalized with Covid-19, even after the Food and Drug Administration granted an emergency use authorization for the treatment and President Donald Trump showed it as a breakthrough. “ There are no formally …
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FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn looks forward to when President Donald Trump announces that the Food and Drug Administration is issuing an emergency permit for blood plasma as a treatment for coronavirus during a press conference at the James S. Brady Briefing Room at the White House on August 23, 2020 …
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