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Two years and numerous variants into the COVID-19 pandemic, our national response continues to be defined by mixed messages and unforced errors. Try as we might, that isn’t going to change until and unless we overhaul our public health infrastructure.  The fact is, our current patchwork of federal institutions — namely the Centers for Disease …

The Food and Drug Administration on Saturday authorized Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use. The vaccine is the third to be approved for use in the United States, and the first that requires only one shot.   The FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) voted unanimously to recommend authorizing the …

The Food and Drug Administration’s advisory panel on Thursday is considering the emergency use of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine. If the vaccine is authorized by the FDA, the first shots could be distributed in the U.S. within days. Health care workers and nursing home residents would be among the first in line.  The panel of outside …

U.S. regulators on Tuesday allowed emergency use of the first rapid coronavirus test that can be performed entirely at home. The announcement by the Food and Drug Administration represents an important step in U.S. efforts to expand testing options for COVID-19 beyond health care facilities and testing sites — but the test will require a …

The restarts mean testing of two of the most advanced Covid-19 vaccines in development can get back on track after their testing had been sidetracked. The testing is crucial for regulators to evaluate whether the vaccines safely protect against the virus and should be given widely. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration had wrapped up …

Washington — Dr. Scott Gottlieb, the former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, warned Sunday that the United States is “right back where we were” when the country experienced its first peak in coronavirus infections earlier this year. “We’re right back where we were at the peak of the epidemic during the New York …

Robotic surgery with the da Vinci Surgical System was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 2000. The technique has been rapidly adopted by hospitals in the United States and Europe for treatment of a wide range of conditions. The most widely used clinical robotic surgical system includes a camera arm and mechanical arms …