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News Articles: Food and Drug Administration

FILE - A vial of Moderna COVID-19 vaccine rests on a table at an inoculation station in Jackson, Miss., on July 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

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  • Health

Trump officials set new requirements for COVID vaccines in healthy adults and children

Top officials for the Food and Drug Administration laid out new requirements for access to updated COVID shots, saying they'd continue to use a streamlined approach to make them available to adults 65 and older as well as children and younger adults with at least one high-risk health problem.

May 20, 2025
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  • Associated Press
An advisory committee to the Food and Drug Administration has recommended that the federal agency approve Alzheimer's drug donanemab.

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  • Science

FDA advisors strongly back new Alzheimer’s drug, despite risks and limitations

Advisors to the Food and Drug Administration have recommended unanimously that the agency approve the Alzheimer’s drug donanemab.

June 10, 2024
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By:
  • Jon Hamilton
The Quaker Oats sign is seen in Cedar Rapids, Iowa in June 2021. Quaker Oats on Friday, Dec. 15, 2023, recalled several of its granola products, including granola bars and cereals, saying the foods could be contaminated with salmonella.

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  • National

Quaker Oats recalls granola products because of concerns of salmonella contamination

Quaker said that it has not received any reports of salmonella infections related to the recalled granola products. The full list of recalled foods includes granola oats cereals and Quaker Chewy Bars.

December 17, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Boxes of the drug mifepristone sit on a shelf at the West Alabama Women's Center in Tuscaloosa, Ala., on March 16, 2022. Lawsuits have been filed in West Virginia and North Carolina challenging the states' restrictions on the use of abortion pills.

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  • News

New lawsuits target state restrictions on abortion pills

Supporters of abortion rights have filed separate lawsuits challenging abortion pill restrictions in North Carolina and West Virginia. The lawsuits were filed Wednesday.

January 26, 2023
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  • Associated Press
The Food and Drug Administration announced it has  loosened some restrictions on the pill mifepristone, allowing it to be dispensed by more pharmacies and without an in-person exam.

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  • Medical Treatments

Abortion pills should be easier to get. That doesn't mean that they will be

Changes by the FDA mean patients won't have to schedule in-person exams to get a prescription. That opens the door for more pharmacies to provide the medication. But not everyone will have access.

January 05, 2023
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  • Vanessa Romo and
  • Sydney Lupkin
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) signage is seen through a bus stop at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Thursday, Aug. 2, 2018, in Silver Spring, Md., on the FDA grounds.

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  • Food

Food safety will rely on better traceability data, says new FDA rule

Harvesters, processors, manufacturers and others in the food chain have three years to comply with the new record keeping system, effective next month

December 30, 2022
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  • Sofi Gratas
The drugmaker Amylyx is asking the FDA to approve a new medication for ALS, a fatal neurodegenerative disease. It's possible the agency could greenlight the drug by the end of the month.

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  • Health

FDA seems poised to approve a new drug for ALS, but does it work?

In March, experts who advise the FDA questioned the efficacy of an experimental new drug for ALS. In September, they voted to approve it anyway.

September 22, 2022
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  • Jon Hamilton
A booster dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine is prepared during a vaccination clinic on Dec. 29 in Lawrence, Mass. The FDA is now shortening the wait time between the second dose and the booster to five months from six months.

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  • Health

FDA shortens the wait time between Moderna vaccine and booster to 5 months

Now, both the Pfizer and the Moderna booster shots can be given five months after the second dose of vaccine — down from six months.

January 07, 2022
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  • Deepa Shivaram
Federal regulators have granted an emergency use authorization to the vaccine developed by Moderna, whose Cambridge, Mass., headquarters are seen here.

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  • Medical Treatments

Moderna's COVID-19 Vaccine Becomes 2nd To Earn FDA Authorization

The Food and Drug Administration greenlights the biotech firm's vaccine for emergency use in the U.S. The move bolsters a vast inoculation effort that's already underway.

December 18, 2020
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  • Colin Dwyer
Health care workers have been throwing out the excess vaccine, fearing it would be against FDA rules to use it.

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  • Medical Treatments

Some Vials Of COVID-19 Vaccine Contain Extra Doses, Expanding Supply, FDA Says

The Food and Drug Administration says is advising health workers to use "every full dose obtainable" to help speed up the nationwide immunization campaign.

December 17, 2020
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  • Vanessa Romo
An example of a vial that will carry the COVID-19 vaccine produced by Pfizer and BioNTech sits on display during a Senate subcommittee hearing Thursday.

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  • Medical Treatments

FDA Authorizes COVID-19 Vaccine For Emergency Use In U.S.

Pfizer and BioNTech's vaccine is the first to receive an emergency authorization from the Food and Drug Administration. Officials say it may be ready for widespread inoculations within days.

December 11, 2020
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  • Colin Dwyer
A nurse prepares to administer the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at a hospital in London on Tuesday. The Food and Drug Administration is considering a recommendation to authorize the vaccine in the United States.

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  • Health

FDA Adviser: Vaccine To Be OK'd In Days, But 'Normal' May Not Return Until Next Fall

The Food and Drug Administration's authorization of a COVID-19 vaccine could come in a day or two, a member of an FDA expert panel says. But he says it may be late 2021 before normalcy returns.

December 11, 2020
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  • Noel King
The pharmaceutical giant Pfizer is formally requesting federal approval for emergency use of the company's COVID-19 vaccine

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  • Medical Treatments

Pfizer Asks FDA To Approve Its COVID-19 Vaccine For Emergency Use

The pharmaceutical giant and partner BioNTech announced Friday that they are submitting a formal request to the Food and Drug Administration, just days after the vaccine was shown to be 95% effective.

November 20, 2020
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  • Colin Dwyer
The Federal Trade Commission has sent warning letters to several companies that marketed the drug thymosin alpha-1 as a purported treatment for COVID-19. The Food and Drug Administration has never approved the drug for any condition.

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  • Investigations

Federal Trade Commission Cracks Down On Unproven COVID-19 Treatment

The Federal Trade Commission issued warning letters to several companies that marketed an unproven drug to treat COVID-19. Sales of the nonapproved drug, thymosin alpha-1, were first reported by NPR.

November 12, 2020
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  • Tom Dreisbach
Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi, an Illinois Democrat, is calling on the Food and Drug Administration and the Federal Trade Commission to investigate sales of a non-FDA approved drug marketed as a treatment for COVID-19.

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  • Investigations

Congressman Calls For Federal Crackdown On Unproven Coronavirus Treatment

An NPR investigation revealed a network of doctors marketing a non-FDA approved drug as a purported treatment for COVID-19. Now, Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.) is calling for federal enforcement.

October 28, 2020
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  • Tom Dreisbach
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