Funding to boost vaccine production and outbreak response against the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola.

Here at Focus, we've been closely following the effects of the government shutdown on the US Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) operations. And so have some legislators, by the looks of it. That ...

Declaring that the number of vaccine producers has "plummeted" as "the industry has been flooded with lawsuits, President Bush said Tuesday that granting vaccine manufacturers protection from civil ...

Experts skipped the cicada variant BA.3.2 and last year’s LP.8.1 vaccine strain and recommended monovalent XFG option.

The FDA’s outside vaccine advisers overwhelmingly recommended Thursday that the agency direct manufacturers to base their 2026-2027 formulas on the dominant XFG Covid variant.

The Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) advisory committee on vaccines this week will consider whether to change the ...

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DES MOINES — Federal legal protections added in the 1980s to shield vaccine manufacturers from most lawsuits would be waived any time a vaccine is administered in Iowa under legislation that was ...

Federal health officials announced Friday they are providing $72 million to vaccine manufacturers to help ensure currently available bird flu vaccines are ready-to-use, if needed. There are currently ...