TGA approves RSV vaccine for use through private prescription for Australians over 60

17 January 2024 - A vaccine for respiratory syncytial virus has been approved by the TGA and will be available through ...

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Investigation reveals no specific risk of COVID-19 vaccinations in elderly patients

2 January 2021 - On 14 January 2021 the TGA received reports of about 30 deaths in over 40,000 elderly ...

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AstraZeneca vaccine warnings based on maths, not safety

29 January 2021 - The warning from the German health ministry’s vaccine committee that the AstraZeneca jab should not be ...

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Germany moves to exclude seniors from AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine

28 January 2021 - Ahead of its expected approval for use by Europe’s medicines regulator Friday, Germany’s vaccine committee has recommended ...

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Trump seeks boost from seniors with $200 drug discount coupons

27 September 2020 - President Trump is throwing a pre-election curveball aimed at seniors with a surprise announcement on Thursday ...

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Seniors suffer the most from antiquated FDA approval process

4 September 2020 - Americans have been heartbroken as report after report shines a light on the COVID-19 pandemic sweeping ...

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Older patients (still) left out of cancer clinical trials

24 October 2019 - A decade before he became the US Surgeon General, Vivek Murthy, MD, published a 2004 study in ...

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Under representation of elderly in clinical trials: an analysis of the initial approval documents in the FDA database

25 February 2019 - A cross‐sectional, structured review of publicly available initial approval documents of FDA approved drugs was performed.  ...

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EMA encourages tailored development of medicines for older people

1 August 2017 - EMA invites comments on reflection paper by 31 January 2018. ...

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