"The FDA will approve vaccines for high-risk persons and, at the same time, demand robust, gold-standard data on persons at low risk," the agency said in an article published by The New England Journal of Medicine, authored by FDA Commissioner Dr. Martin Makary and his new top vaccines official, Dr. Vinay Prasad.

The US Food and Drug Administration has fully approved a new COVID vaccine option specifically targeting high-risk individuals, including seniors. The protein-based Nuvaxovid vaccine, produced by Novavax,

In the Phase 2 study of patients with chronic kidney disease, the highest dose of the drug lowered by 86% the levels of high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP), a measure of inflammation, through 90 days. Study participants treated with a placebo showed hs-CRP reductions of 15%.

JPMorgan analyst Eric Joseph reaffirmed an Underweight rating for Novavax Inc. (NASDAQ:NVAX) with a price target of $7. This comes after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the company’s COVID-19 vaccine,

WASHINGTON — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. clinched the political support needed to become the nation’s top health official by pledging to work within the decades-old federal system for approval and use of vaccines. Yet his regulators are promising big changes that cloud the outlook for what shots might even be available.

Health-related headlines include Mexico's suspension of poultry imports from Brazil due to bird flu, promising results from new HIV vaccine trials, and the FDA's conditional approval of Novavax's COVID-19 vaccine.

Coinbase Global (COIN) will begin trading on the S&P 500 (^GSPC) effective today, replacing Discover Financial Services (DFS) on the exchange. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approves Novavax's (NVAX) COVID-19 vaccine,