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Month: September 2021

The road to Aduhelm: What one ex-FDA adviser called ‘probably the worst drug approval decision in recent US history’ for an Alzheimer’s treatment

CNN By Jeffrey Toobin, CNN Dr. Aaron Kesselheim had been on an advisory committee for the US Food and Drug Administration for a half-dozen years, but he had never been to a meeting like this one. The FDA establishes advisory committees to assist the federal agency with one of its most important duties: deciding whether

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The road to Aduhelm: What one ex-FDA adviser called ‘probably the worst drug approval decision in recent US history’ for an Alzheimer’s treatment

By Jeffrey Toobin, CNN Dr. Aaron Kesselheim had been on an advisory committee for the US Food and Drug Administration for a half-dozen years, but he had never been to a meeting like this one. The FDA establishes advisory committees to assist the federal agency with one of its most important duties: deciding whether to

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El CEO de Pfizer dice que estarán listos en cuestión de días para solicitar la aprobación de una vacuna de covid-19 para niños

Mariana Toro (CNN) — Pfizer/BioNTech planea solicitar la autorización de una vacuna de covid-19 para algunos niños menores de 12 años, lo que pondrá a Estados Unidos un paso más cerca a ofrecerle protección a una población que se ha vuelto particularmente vulnerable a medida que avanza la temporada de otoño. “Es una cuestión de

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Biden administration takes new steps to preserve Obama-era DACA immigration program

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN The Biden administration Monday morning took steps to save the Obama-era DACA program that shields hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants brought to the US as children from deportation. The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program has been the subject of ongoing litigation since it was established in 2012. President Donald

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