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FDA staff recommends watching for Bell’s palsy in Moderna and Pfizer vaccine recipients

[CNBC] The FDA said that there were four reported cases of Bell’s palsy among Moderna’s 30,000 trial participants, including three who got the vaccine. However, “currently available information is insufficient to determine a causal relationship with the vaccine,” the FDA wrote in briefing documents. The FDA’s guidance for Moderna’s vaccine […]

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NIH ‘very concerned’ about serious side effect in AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine trial

[CNN] (Kaiser Health News) The Food and Drug Administration is weighing whether to follow British regulators in resuming a coronavirus vaccine trial that was halted when a participant suffered spinal cord damage, even as the National Institutes of Health has launched an investigation of the case. “The highest levels of […]

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