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FDA advisers call for updated omicron COVID shot : Shots

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[ad_1] The COVID-19 vaccine will be updated in hopes of targeting the strains of omicron that will be circulating later this year. Esteban Felix/AP hide caption toggle caption Esteban Felix/AP The COVID-19 vaccine will be updated in hopes of targeting the strains of omicron that will be circulating later this year. Esteban Felix/AP A panel of expert advisers to the Food and Drug Administration voted unanimously Thursday to recommend that the COVID-19 vaccine be updated to target emerging subvariants of omicron. ...

FDA must make naloxone to be had and not using a prescription, advocates argue : Photographs

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[ad_1] Louise Vincent, government director of the North Carolina Survivors Union, holds a vial of the overdose reversal drug naloxone. "Virtually everybody that comes this is alive as a result of naloxone," Vincent says. Aneri Pattani/KHN disguise caption toggle caption Aneri Pattani/KHN Louise Vincent, government director of the North Carolina Survivors Union, holds a vial of the overdose reversal drug naloxone. "Virtually everybody that comes this is alive as a result of naloxone," Vincent says. Aneri Pattan...