FDA advisers back RSV vaccine for pregnant women that protects their newborns
WASHINGTON — A first-of-its-kind RSV vaccine for pregnant women guards their newborns against the scary respiratory virus -– and federal health advisers on Thursday backed Pfizer's shot despite some...
View ArticleHandicapping Trump versus DeSantis faceoff
The Great Never Trump Hope is finally throwing his boxing gloves into the 2024 presidential ring. Here's how Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will try to knock out the greatest counterpuncher in American...
View ArticlePaxlovid gets full FDA approval after more than a year of emergency use for...
Pfizer received full approval on Thursday for its COVID-19 pill Paxlovid that's been the go-to treatment against the coronavirus.More than 11 million prescriptions for Paxlovid have been dispensed...
View ArticleFDA advisers consider changing COVID vaccine to target latest omicron strain
The COVID-19 vaccines are on track for a big recipe change this fall.Today’s vaccines still contain the original coronavirus strain, the one that started the pandemic - even though that was long ago...
View ArticleBiden's gang of social media censors exposed by federal judge
A federal judge who excoriated the Biden administration for pressuring social media platforms to censor Americans' speech shined a light on a group of obscure but powerful White House staffers who...
View ArticleNew drug to protect babies and toddlers from RSV gets FDA approval ahead of...
WASHINGTON — U.S. officials on Monday approved the first long-acting drug to protect babies and toddlers against a respiratory virus that sends tens of thousands of American children to the hospital...
View ArticlePfizer pharmaceutical plant in North Carolina badly damaged by tornado,...
RALEIGH, N.C. — A tornado heavily damaged a major Pfizer pharmaceutical plant in North Carolina on Wednesday, the latest in a string of extreme weather events plaguing the U.S. on a day when floods...
View ArticleTornado damage to Pfizer plant will probably create long-term shortages of...
The fallout from a Pfizer factory being damaged by a tornado could put even more pressure on already-strained drug supplies at U.S. hospitals, experts say.Wednesday's tornado touched down near Rocky...
View ArticleTornado damage to Pfizer plant unlikely to cause major drug supply shortages,...
RALEIGH, N.C. — Most of the destruction from a tornado that tore through eastern North Carolina Wednesday and struck a large Pfizer pharmaceutical plant affected its storage facility, rather than its...
View ArticleFDA approves RSV vaccine for use in pregnant women to pass immunity to newborns
A version of this story appeared in the On Background newsletter from The Washington Times. Click here to receive On Background delivered directly to your inbox each Friday.The Food and Drug...
View ArticleFDA approves updated booster shot for COVID-19 ahead of fall campaign
The Food and Drug Administration approved updated booster shots for COVID-19 on Monday, a major step toward launching a fall immunization campaign against the virus that is now viewed as a perennial...
View ArticleTornado-damaged Pfizer plant in North Carolina restarts production
ROCKY MOUNT, N.C. — A major Pfizer pharmaceutical plant in North Carolina that makes critical supplies for U.S. hospitals has restarted production about 10 weeks after it was heavily damaged by a...
View ArticleCOVID-19 treatments to enter market with hefty price tag
The COVID-19 treatments millions of Americans have taken for free from the federal government will enter the private market next week with a hefty price tag.Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer is setting the...
View ArticleEDITORIAL: Post-pandemic COVID-19 vaccine distrust
An autumn chill always precedes the annual period of cold-weather maladies. It was during such a season four years ago that murmurings of a fearful coronavirus disease arose, the memories of which are...
View ArticleTexas sues Pfizer over COVID-19 vaccine: 'The pandemic did not end; it got...
Texas is suing the pharmaceutical giant behind the COVID-19 vaccine.In a suit filed Thursday in state district court in Lubbock County, state Attorney General Ken Paxton accused Pfizer of promoting the...
View ArticleWall Street ticks slightly higher ahead of Fed call on interest rates
Wall Street inched up modestly Wednesday ahead of a decision by the U.S. Federal Reserve on interest rates.Futures for the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones industrials each rose about 0.1% before the...
View ArticleConservatives using 1866 law that enfranchised formerly enslaved people to...
NEW YORK — Opponents of workplace diversity programs are increasingly banking on a section of the Civil Rights Act of 1866 to challenge equity policies as well as funding to minority-owned...
View ArticleAs legal challenges mount to DEI, some companies rework workplace equity...
NEW YORK — Sophia Danner-Okotie’s has ambitious plans for her Nigerian-inspired clothing line but a sense of dread has punctured her optimism as she watches a legal battle being waged against a small...
View ArticleStudy of 99 million COVID-vaccinated people finds links to brain, heart...
In what stands as one of the most comprehensive vaccine safety studies across the globe, scientists have singled out unusual conditions that have surfaced after receiving COVID-19 vaccinations.The...
View ArticleBiden's latest equity push could backfire and reduce salaries
President Biden's push to end racial and gender disparities in the job market by requiring employers to divulge workers' salaries could backfire and result in all workers earning less than they did...
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