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COVID-19 vaccine booster tensions mount between White House, CDC and FDA

September 15, 2021 By Brian Buntz

Facing the second-biggest wave of COVID-19 infections and waning popularity, President Biden has promised to launch an initiative to begin providing vaccine boosters starting September 20.  But the plan hinges upon FDA and CDC support, and some officials at the agencies remain unconvinced that boosters are immediately necessary.  Two departing senior FDA vaccine officials recently co-wrote […]

Filed Under: Featured, Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Pharmaceutical, Regulatory/Compliance Tagged With: BioNTech, CDC, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccine, COVID-19 vaccine trial, FDA, Pfizer

Pfizer to boost vaccine production for U.S. by 10%

April 14, 2021 By Nancy Crotti

Pfizer will deliver 10% more of its COVID-19 vaccine to the U.S. by the end of May than originally planned, its CEO tweeted yesterday. The tweet follows the federal government’s decision to recommend a temporary halt in the distribution of Johnson & Johnson’s single-dose vaccine, which has been tied to rare instances of blood clot […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Distribution, Featured Tagged With: CDC, coronavirus, COVID-19 vaccine, FDA, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer

Feds halt J&J COVID-19 vaccine due to blood clot concern

April 13, 2021 By Sean Whooley

The FDA and CDC issued a joint statement today recommending the pause in the administration of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine. As of yesterday, more than 6.8 million doses of the J&J single-dose vaccine had been administered in the U.S. Among recipients of those doses, six cases of a rare and severe type of blood […]

Filed Under: Featured, Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Pharmaceutical, Regulatory/Compliance Tagged With: CDC, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccine, FDA, Johnson & Johnson, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

How continuous glucose monitors have transformed the diabetes landscape

January 25, 2021 By Brian Buntz

Continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) are among the most potent diabetes management tools to emerge in recent decades. FDA approved the first professional CGM in 1999, and the technology has evolved swiftly since then. Current models beam data via Bluetooth to smartphones (plus the Apple Watch) and the cloud, enabling patients to explore their blood glucose […]

Filed Under: Blog, Diabetes, Digital Health, Drug Pumps, Drug-Device Combinations, Featured Tagged With: A1C, blood glucose, blood glucose monitoring, CDC, CGM, continuous glucose monitor, diabetes, fingerstick, hypoglycemia, smartphone

Norway investigating deaths of 23 individuals who received COVID-19 vaccine

January 15, 2021 By Brian Buntz

In Norway, authorities are investigating the deaths of nearly two dozen people who received the COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer (NYSE:PFE) and BioNTech (NSDQ:BNTX). To date, it has analyzed data from 13 of those individuals. The Norwegian Medicines Agency concluded that common adverse reactions to mRNA vaccines, including fever and nausea, could have contributed to deaths in elderly […]

Filed Under: Featured, Pharmaceutical Tagged With: CDC, Clinical Trials, coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccine, COVID-19 vaccine trial, Norway, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), vaccine

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