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Moderna of Cambridge, Mass, recently announced that the government may authorize emergency use of their Coronavirus vaccine, as soon as December. The announcement comes as no surprise following the company’s 1.5 Million Dollar vaccine development contract signed back in August with the US Federal Government. Chief Executive Officer Stéphane Bancel …

Last week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced it was expanding a June recall of the popular diabetes drug Metformin. The drugs are being recalled for containing an unsafe level of cancer-causing agent N-Nitrosodimethylamine. The recall now includes an additional 76 unexpired lots. Metformin is used in patients with …

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is officially requiring makers of popular anti-anxiety brands to label the medications as possibly being extremely addictive. Benzodiazepines, or “benzos,” are a class of highly addictive psychoactive drugs, and include well-known ones like Xanax, Ativan, Klonopin, Librium, and Valium. Many of these drugs are …

TikTok has become very popular during the quarantine by offering a platform where creatives are able to make original or remade content videos. However, the level of traffic they receive on a day to day basis has put them at a disadvantage in quickly regulating dangerous content. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ A new …

Bill Gates is calling out the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention over their mismanaging of the COVID-19 pandemic. During his latest interview with Bloomberg Television, Gates took aim at FDA commissioner Stephen Hahn after he incorrectly promoted the benefits of blood plasma as …

The Food and Drug Administration or FDA has shot down Donald Trump’s claim that the agency is being controlled by the “deep state,” which is a conspiracy theory claiming that a hidden government exists to manipulate the legitimate one. In an interview with Reuters on Monday, FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn …

The Trump administration has made the decision to allow coronavirus tests developed by individual laboratories to be used without FDA review. On Wednesday, the Department of Health and Human Services outlined the decision in a notice, which public health experts warn could lead to malfunctioned tests. According to two senior …

The FDA is looking into more than 127 cases of people having seizures and neurological symptoms after vaping. On Wednesday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said it received 127 reports of seizures or other neurological symptoms possibly related to e-cigarettes. However, Investigators have yet to officially confirm the symptoms …