| | The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday alerted healthcare providers about a potential clip lock issue with Abbott Laboratories' MitraClip device used to stop heart valve leakage. | | | The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has received several reports of certain types of cancers in the scar tissue that forms around breast implants, the agency said in a safety notice on Thursday. | | | The United States will boost its stockpile of at-home COVID-19 tests, ordering more than 100 million tests from domestic manufacturers, the White House said on Thursday, but warned it was a short-term solution. | | | The annual U.S. COVID-19 vaccine market going forward could be in the range of $5.2 billion to $12.9 billion, depending on the price of shots and who is eligible to receive them, Moderna Inc's chief commercial officer said on Thursday. | | | The National Institutes of Health said on Thursday it had started enrollments in a trial testing an alternative method of administering Bavarian Nordic's monkeypox vaccine, Jynneos, which requires smaller dosages. | | | Bayer said on Thursday its anti-blindness treatment Eylea, jointly developed with Regeneron , has been shown to work as well when given at a higher dose at a longer interval between injections. | | | The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved Revance Therapeutics' anti-wrinkle injection, setting up a challenger for market leader AbbVie's Botox that has long dominated the aesthetic market. | | | Several scientists are beginning to study a potential link following evidence of increased cases of depression and suicidal thoughts among people with long COVID. | | | Chengdu extended a lockdown for a majority of its more than 21 million residents to prevent further transmission of COVID while millions more in other parts of China were told to shun holiday travel. | | | Gambia's government is investigating whether the deaths of dozens of young children from kidney failure in recent months are linked to paracetamol syrup, the head of the country's health service said on Thursday. | | | | |