USFDA flags heart inflammation risk after taking Novavax COVID vaccine
The FDA said it had requested Novavax to flag myocarditis and another kind of heart inflammation as an "important identified risk" in its materials.
New York: US Food and Drug Administration staff said on Friday they were concerned about a possible risk of heart inflammation from Novavax Inc's vaccine, even as the company's data showed the vaccine was effective in reducing the risk of mild-to-severe Covid-19.In the company's nearly 30,000 patient trial, conducted between December 2020 and September 2021, there were four cases of...
New York: US Food and Drug Administration staff said on Friday they were concerned about a possible risk of heart inflammation from Novavax Inc's vaccine, even as the company's data showed the vaccine was effective in reducing the risk of mild-to-severe Covid-19.
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