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'Appropriate' transition period for COVID-19 test EUAs when public health emergency ends

Healthcare Dive

The FDA is planning to give holders of EUAs for COVID-19 diagnostics and other devices 180 days notice of its intent to end their authorizations, in anticipation of U.S. public health emergency declarations stopping.

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Remember the Babies: The Need for Off-Label Pediatric Use of COVID-19 Vaccines

Bill of Health

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is failing parents by preventing off-label use of our existing COVID-19 vaccines in the under-five set. The CDC, through its vaccine provider agreements, prevents physicians and parents from pursuing off-label use of COVID-19 vaccinations in young children.

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Litigation Challenges Prioritization of Race or Ethnicity in Allocating COVID-19 Therapies

Bill of Health

Food & Drug Administration (FDA) encouraged several states to adopt policies that prioritized race or ethnicity in the allocation of monoclonal antibody treatments and oral antivirals for the treatment of SARS-CoV-2. By James Lytle. Recent guidance from the U.S. Emphasis in original.)

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FDA takes N95 respirators off medical device shortage list

Healthcare Dive

Respirators were one of the first medical devices identified as being in critical shortage during the COVID-19 public health emergency, the agency said.

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Reflections on Procedural Barriers to Pediatric COVID Vaccine Access

Bill of Health

When news broke last week that Pfizer-BioNTech was submitting for Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) a two-dose COVID vaccine regimen for children under 5 to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), many parents felt a glimmer of hope after a long time. million children have tested positive for COVID since the pandemic, over 3.5

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HIMSSCast: Fighting back against healthcare misinformation in the era of social media and genAI

Healthcare It News

Nayyar's most recent USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling book, Dead Wrong: Diagnosing and Treating Healthcare's Misinformation Illness , explores the profound personal and public health risks associated with digitally propagated mis- and disinformation. Like what you hear? Learn more and register.

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First OTC, app-connected COVID-19 test authorized by FDA

Mobi Health News

Alongside step-by-step instructions, the Ellume COVID-19 Home Test's accompanying app automatically reports users' results to the relevant public health authorities.

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