Supreme Court Extends Stay on Abortion Pill Ruling
The Supreme Court extended a hold on a lower-court ruling on mifepristone until Friday, meaning the drug will remain broadly available for now. On Wednesday afternoon, hours before the stay on the lower-court ruling was expected to be lifted, Justice Samuel Alito extended the pause through Friday evening. Had the Supreme Court not extended the […]
Opinion | Should Future COVID Boosters Include the Ancestral Strain?
The current COVID-19 mRNA vaccine boosters are bivalent, meaning they contain equal amounts of spike protein mRNA for the original Wuhan virus sequence and for the BA.4/5 Omicron variants that emerged in mid-2022. How well does this type of bivalent booster perform? The question is relevant because FDA’s recent Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory […]