The Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved Biogen‘s Alzheimer’s disease drug aducanumab, making it the first medication cleared by U.S. regulators to slow cognitive decline in people living with Alzheimer’s and the first new medicine for the disease in nearly two decades. The FDA’s decision was highly anticipated. The drug, which is marketed under […]
The Food and Drug Administration is expected to decide by spring whether to approve Pfizer‘s vaccine to prevent respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, in adults ages 60 and older. Pfizer, in a statement Wednesday, said the FDA has accepted its RSV vaccine candidate for review under an expedited process that reduces the approval timeline by […]
Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, left, Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images; Tom Williams-Pool | Getty Images Sens. Roger Wicker, Angus King, and John Hickenlooper, who are all vaccinated for the coronavirus, tested positive for Covid-19 on Thursday after experiencing symptoms. Wicker, King and Hickenlooper are the latest in a string […]
