WASHINGTON — President Trump’s anti-vaccine comments on Monday signal health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s growing influence — and raise new questions about how far the pair may go to upend vaccine policy. Standing with Kennedy beside him at the White House, Trump called the childhood vaccine schedule a “disgrace” and railed against the practice…
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WASHINGTON — President Trump on Monday suggested an overhaul to how children get vaccinated after claiming, without evidence, that many vaccines are unsafe as currently given. The president said he has talked with health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. about his proposed changes. While Trump has occasionally expressed skepticism of some vaccines, the president’s comments…
Andrew Joseph covers health, medicine, and the biopharma industry in Europe. You can reach Andrew on Signal at drewqjoseph.45. In a highly unusual move, the Food and Drug Administration re-approved a drug on Monday that stopped being sold more than 25 years ago, part of a push from the Trump administration to identify the causes…
ATLANTA — Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has said he wants his handpicked panel of vaccine advisers to restore declining public trust in vaccines. What that looked like was on full display on Thursday and Friday: The 12-person committee, which includes several scientists and researchers who’ve questioned or spread misinformation about…
WASHINGTON – In an unprecedented move, federal regulators published about 100 warning letters sent to pharmaceutical companies and health care providers, ordering them to stop or alter ads or other promotions the government considered misleading. The letters went to major pharmaceutical firms like Novartis and Eli Lilly, and to telehealth firms like Hims & Hers, shortly…
WASHINGTON — In an unprecedented move, federal regulators published about 100 warning letters sent to pharmaceutical companies and health care providers, ordering them to stop or alter ads or other promotions the government considered misleading. The letters went to major drugmakers like Novartis and Eli Lilly, and to telehealth firms like Hims & Hers, shortly after…
WASHINGTON — Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary said the agency is conducting an “intense investigation” into whether Covid-19 vaccines have caused deaths in children. In an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper, Makary said his staff is looking into deaths of young healthy children from the Covid vaccine. He did not share specific data linking…
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WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved updated Covid boosters, but removed emergency use authorizations for the vaccines, in a set of moves that could make the shots more difficult to obtain for children under 5, in particular. The moves were announced by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of health and…