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The U.S. FDA and the CDC approve fourth doses of the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines for people over the age of 50 years.
2022-03-29

The Food and Drug Administration gives full approval to the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, becoming the first vaccine in the U.S. to be granted full licensure and thereby giving businesses, schools and universities more confidence to adopt vaccine mandates.
2021-08-23

A Food and Drug Administration official says that a vaccine for children under the age of 12 years is expected to be approved by midwinter.
2021-07-15

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approves the use of aducanumab to treat Alzheimer's disease, the first Alzheimer's drug to be approved in 18 years and the first to target the disease process. The drug is considered controversial as clinical trials gave conflicting results on its effectiveness.
2021-06-7

American regulators from the Food and Drug Administration confirm that Pfizer's vaccine candidate is 95% effective.
2020-12-8

The United States Food and Drug Administration asks companies to stop selling all forms of the heartburn drug Ranitidine (Zantac). The agency says some medications contain a nitrosamine impurity called N-Nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA), a probable human carcinogen.
2020-04-2

The Food and Drug Administration announces that President Donald Trump signed legislation last week to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act which will raise the legal age to buy tobacco in the U.S. from 18 to 21 in the next three to six months.
2019-12-27

The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) lifts the 32-year-old, lifetime ban on blood donations from gay and bisexual men. Men can donate if they haven't had sex with another man in the previous year. The FDA stance is in line with other countries, such as Australia, Brazil, Canada, New Zealand, and the U.K., and is consistent with rules on recent blood transfusion or accidental exposure to another individual's blood.
2015-12-21

Panel of advisors to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommends approval of flibanserin by 18–6 to improve a woman's libido.
2015-06-4

The FDA says that in regards to the 31-year-old policy against gay men making blood donations it will recommend lifting the lifetime ban early next year, replacing it with a policy barring donations from men who have had sex with another man in the previous 12 months.
2014-12-23