food and drug administration

The idiocy of vaccine mandates for kids
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
RICH LOWRY 
Jan 12, 2022
The old legal maxim is that everything which is not forbidden is permitted. Many public-health experts apparently have their own version of this rule ...
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Increasing vaccines
Local Columnists, Nation World
Feb 12, 2021
It seems like a solution that’s almost too simple: Make more COVID-19 vaccines available by allowing one of the drug manufacturers to increase the amo...
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Cuomo details who will get coronavirus vaccines first
News, NY State News, Western New York
EDWARD McKINLEY Times Union 
Dec 10, 2020
ALBANY (TNS) — With the first shipment of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine expected to arrive in New York this weekend, Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday detail...
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Americans, take the medicine
Local Columnists, Nation World
Dec 04, 2020
Scientists and researchers the world over have harnessed the energy of their minds and hearts to craft a weapon against the persistent and deadly COVI...
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Gov. Cuomo’s vaccine rhetoric is irresponsible
Local Columnists, New York
CHRIS CHURCHILL Times Union 
Nov 21, 2020
ALBANY (TNS) — If there’s light at the end of this dark pandemic tunnel, it’s in recent announcements that effective vaccines are on the way. That’s t...
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Understanding clinical trials
Health
Alex Keown & Pamela Guggina, MD, MPH 
Jan 17, 2018
It takes years of intense data-driven research before an experimental therapy or medical device is commercially available. Before these treatments hit...
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