There is no clear path for African patients to get access to the treatments, which have multimillion-dollar price tags and are highly complex to manufacture and deliver.
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Could Longevity Drugs for Dogs Extend Your Pet’s Life?
Longevity drugs for our canine companions are moving closer to reality. They also raise questions about what it might mean to succeed.
Aspartame is Possibly Linked to Cancer in Humans, the WHO Says
The F.D.A. and the powerful beverage industry protested the new findings, and a second W.H.O. group stood by its standard that the sweetener is generally safe.
FDA Panel Recommends RSV Shot to Protect Infants
Advisers to the agency overwhelmingly agreed that a new treatment would help to prevent a potentially lethal respiratory illness in very young children.
FDA Panel Recommends RSV Vaccine to Protect Young Infants
A committee of experts voted in favor of a new shot administered to pregnant women, one in a series of new ways to arm the very young against a life-threatening virus.
RSV Vaccine Approved for Older Adults
The shots would be the first vaccines available against a respiratory virus that kills thousands and leads to many more hospitalizations each year.
Could the Next Blockbuster Drug Be Lab-Rat Free?
Alternatives to animal testing are gaining momentum.
Covid Vaccines Targeting Omicron Should Be Standard, Panel Says
As advisers to the Food and Drug Administration endorsed ending one era of the Covid vaccination campaign, they also grappled with its future.
No Increased Stroke Risk Linked to Pfizer’s Covid Boosters, Federal Officials Say
An uptick hinted at in surveillance data was a mirage, the officials said.
Lab-Grown Meat Receives Clearance From F.D.A.
In a first step toward cultivated meat reaching dinner tables and restaurant menus, regulators said that a start-up company’s chicken was safe to eat.