The FDA's vaccine chief, Dr. Vinay Prasad, personally intervened to place restrictions on COVID shots from vaccine makers Novavax and Moderna.

The U.S. FDA approved 14 drugs in May, a decline from 20 in April and 22 in March. That brings the year-to-date total for 2025 to 84 approvals, the second highest on record for this period, just ...

The government’s top vaccine official working under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently restricted the approval of two COVID-19 vaccines, disregarding recommendations from government ...

Federal documents show he disagreed with conclusions the benefits outweighed the risk of side effects, which are rare.