FDA Warning: Reumofan Supplements Contain Risky Drugs
Agencia el Universal/El Universal de Mexico/Newscom(NEW YORK) — Consumers searching for a miracle cure for the aches and pains of arthritis should beware: The FDA has issued a new warning about the potential health risks of Reumofan and Reumofan Plus,…
FDA Investigates Codeine Safety After Children’s Deaths
Jupiterimages/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday that it was investigating the safety of codeine for post-operative pain relief in children following reports of three deaths and one life-threatening emer…
FDA Investigates Codeine Safety After Children’s Deaths
Jupiterimages/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday that it was investigating the safety of codeine for post-operative pain relief in children following reports of three deaths and one life-threatening emer…
FDA May Regulate Premium Cigars
iStockphoto/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — Are big, fat, $10-a-piece cigars catnip to children? That’s one question the Food and Drug Administration is mulling as it considers whether or not — or how — to regulate the sale of premium cigars.Makers a…
FDA Approves Generic Versions of Singulair
JB Reed/Bloomberg News(WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved the first generic versions of the drug Singulair for allergy and asthma sufferers.The drug, which blocks the action of substances that cause hayfever and oth…
Spinal-Cord Injuries: FDA Approves Cell-Regeneration Therapy
Comstock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Marc Buoniconti has been paralyzed from the neck down for 27 years after a college football injury at South Carolina’s The Citadel.His Hall of Fame linebacker father, Nick Buoniconti, triumphed on the football field as …
Wary Doctors Put the ‘Wait’ in Weight Loss Drugs
iStockphoto/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — After a 13-year dry spell, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved two new drugs promising weight loss in a pill. But will you be able to get a prescription for them?The answer may depend on which do…
FDA Insists It Only Spied on Five Scientists
MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — The Food and Drug Administration denies that it targeted more than five of its scientists or any congressional staff, outside medical experts or journalists in a surveillance operation to identify who leaked …
FDA Requires BPA-Free Baby Bottles and Sippy Cups
iStockphoto/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — Baby bottles and sippy cups just got safer. On Tuesday, the U.S. Food and Drug and Administration (FDA) said child beverage containers could no longer contain the plastic chemical bisphenol-A, or BPA.Consumer…
FDA Requires BPA-Free Baby Bottles and Sippy Cups
iStockphoto/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — Baby bottles and sippy cups just got safer. On Tuesday, the U.S. Food and Drug and Administration (FDA) said child beverage containers could no longer contain the plastic chemical bisphenol-A, or BPA.Consumer…
Consumer Groups Call for White House Action on Food Safety
Jupiterimages/Pixland/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — Eighteen months ago, the bipartisan Food Safety Modernization Act was passed into law, but Tuesday parts of that law are yet to be implemented. The White House Office of Management and Budget has missed a…
Consumer Groups Call for White House Action on Food Safety
Jupiterimages/Pixland/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — Eighteen months ago, the bipartisan Food Safety Modernization Act was passed into law, but Tuesday parts of that law are yet to be implemented. The White House Office of Management and Budget has missed a…
FDA Approves Weight Loss Drug Qnexa
Lauren Nicole /Digital Vision(WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the diet drug Qnexa, the agency’s latest move to give doctors and their patients more tools to fight excessive weight gain as obesity rates continue t…
FDA Approves Truvada for HIV Prevention
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) – The Food and Drug Adminstration Monday announced the approval of the first drug for use in people who are not infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), to prevent its transmission, which some…
Woman Anonymously Sues FDA for Right to Free Sperm
iStockphoto/Thinkstock(OAKLAND, Calif.) — An Oakland, Calif., woman and her long-term female partner wanted to start a family. But she didn’t want to have heterosexual intercourse, nor did she want to use a medical intermediary — like a sperm b…
FDA Approves Over-the-Counter HIV Test
OraSure Technologies, Inc./Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — In what could be a breakthrough in preventing the transmission of HIV, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved a new over-the-counter test kit called OraQuick that the government …
Feds: GlaxoSmithKline to Pay $3B for Illegally Marketing Drugs
GLAXOSMITHKLINE/AFP/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — Heathcare giant GlaxoSmithKline has agreed to an unprecedented $3 billion settlement with the U.S. government over allegations that the company advertised drugs for uses not approved by the Food and Drug …
Feds: GlaxoSmithKline to Pay $3B for Illegally Marketing Drugs
GLAXOSMITHKLINE/AFP/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — Heathcare giant GlaxoSmithKline has agreed to an unprecedented $3 billion settlement with the U.S. government over allegations that the company advertised drugs for uses not approved by the Food and Drug …
FDA Approves Weight Loss Drug Belviq
George Doyle/Stockbyte/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the weight loss drug Belviq for people who are overweight or obese and have one or more weight-related health problems, the agency announced today. “Obesity…
Prescriptions for ADHD Drugs Increasing, Says New FDA Research
Comstock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — The number of children who received prescriptions for drugs used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) increased over an eight-year period while the number of antibiotic prescriptions declined, acco…