The Food and Drug Administration’s about-face comes a little more than a week after the agency refused to consider the company’s application to market the new kind of influenza vaccine.
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Senators from both parties grilled RFK Jr. on vaccines and more
In a blistering hearing, Senators from both parties challenged the health secretary to defend his actions, including on vaccines access and CDC leadership.
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Public health experts dismayed by RFK Jr.’s defunding of mRNA vaccine research
The Trump administration cancelled about $500 million for research into mRNA vaccines. The move slows progress in using the technology to prevent a future pandemic or treat disease, experts say.
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Whatever happened to … the Brazilian besties creating an mRNA vaccine as a gift to the world
NPR’s coverage of their effort to invent an mRNA vaccine that would be free for all countries to manufacture brought them an award for altruism in health. We checked in on their progress.


