NEW YORK, Dec 27 — The US Food and Drug Administration is proposing that cosmetic products containing talc should be tested using standardised methods to detect asbestos, a potential contaminant, according to documents posted on the federal register yesterday.

REUTERS, April 7 — Top US Food and Drug Administration officials on Wednesday said the agency is aiming to decide by June whether to change the design of Covid-19 vaccines in order to combat future variants, even if it does not have all the necessary information to measure their effectiveness.

WASHINGTON, Aug 4 — The US Food and Drug Administration is aiming to give full approval for the Pfizer Covid vaccine by early September, the New York Times reported on Tuesday, citing people involved in the effort.

BANGKOK, July 14 — Thais can test for Covid-19 right at their home starting next week when the Covid-19 antigen test kits will be available for sale at authorized hospitals and clinics.

KUALA LUMPUR, June 6 — The Ministry of Health (MOH) and the Institute for Clinical Research (ICR) have started clinical trials to study the use and efficacy of Ivermectin for high-risk Covid-19 patients at 12 MOH's hospitals.

REUTERS, Dec 12 — The US Food and Drug Administration said it authorized the use of Pfizer Inc's Covid-19 vaccine on Friday, with the first inoculations expected within days, marking a turning point in the United States where the pandemic has killed more than 295,000 people.

WASHINGTON, Dec 11 — An advisory group of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) met on Thursday and recommended the agency issue emergency use authorisation (EUA) to the Covid-19 vaccine of American drugmaker Pfizer in partnership with German company BioNTech, Xinhua news agency reported.

REUTERS, Nov 22 — The US Food and Drug Administration on Saturday issued emergency use authorization for Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc's Covid-19 antibody therapy, an experimental treatment given to US President Donald Trump that he said helped cure him of the disease.

WASHINGTON, Nov 18 — The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said on Tuesday that it had authorised the country's first Covid-19 diagnostic kit for self-testing at home, reports Xinhua news agency.

REUTERS, Nov 18 — The US Food and Drug Administration said on Tuesday it had approved the first Covid-19 self-testing kit for home use that provides results within 30 minutes.

REUTERS, Oct 23 — The US Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved Gilead Sciences Inc's antiviral drug remdesivir for treating patients hospitalized with Covid-19, making it the first and only drug approved for the disease in the United States.