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While the USDA just approved two companies that produce lab-grown meat, Italy, as a precaution, banned its production and sale

The Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved the injection for infants and children up to 2 years old. It’s made by AstraZeneca and is already approved in Canada and Europe

Medical societies and women’s health groups have pushed for wider access for decades, noting that an estimated 45% of the 6 million annual pregnancies in the U.S. are unintended

The decision means that the treatment, which modestly slows down the advance of the brain-robbing disease, should be covered under the U.S. health insurance program

The number of different electronic cigarette devices sold in the U.S. has nearly tripled to over 9,000 since 2020, driven almost entirely by a wave of unauthorized disposable vapes from China

The Food and Drug Administration’s scientific advisers said the next round of shots in the U.S. should only include protection against the newest variants that are now dominant worldwide

The decision carries extra significance because insurers have held off on paying for the drug, Leqembi, until it has full FDA approval

The drugmaker is seeking to halt the program, which was laid out in the Inflation Reduction Act and is expected to save taxpayers billions of dollars in the coming years

The drug is similar to naloxone, the life-saving drug that has been used for decades to quickly reverse overdoses caused by opioids

The Food and Drug Administration asked if there’s a hint that the vaccine might affect premature birth but its advisers weren’t convinced

The conservatives judges of the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal will hear arguments May 17 on whether the FDA’s approval of mifepristone must be rolled back

Even though nearly half of states already allow canine dining outdoors, the issue is far from settled, with many diners and restaurants pushing back against the increasing presence of pooches

The recommendation came at the close of a two-day meeting focused on whether women could safely and effectively take the pill without professional supervision

Advisers to the Food and Drug Administration meet next week to review drugmaker Perrigo’s application to sell a decades-old pill over the counter

After decades of failure in developing an RSV vaccine, the FDA decision Wednesday makes GSK’s shot the first of several in the pipeline to be licensed

The new treatment from Seres Therapeutics provides a simpler, rigorously tested version of stool-based procedures that some medical specialists have used for more than a decade to help hard-to-treat patients

The Food and Drug Administration is allowing an extra dose of the omicron-targeted vaccine for anyone 65 and older if it’s been four months since their last shot

The Biden administration on Monday asked a federal appeals court to allow women to continue to be able to access to the most commonly used abortion drug in the U.S. while a lawsuit over it plays out

Massachusetts has purchased enough doses of the drug mifepristone to last for more than a year, while California has secured an emergency stockpile of up to two million pills of another abortion medication, misoprostol

Supplements to combat hair loss have become trendy, but the ingredient is not as miraculous as it’s made out to be

The move marks the first time a opioid treatment drug will be available without a prescription, something advocates have long sought

Minnesota sued Juul in 2019, accusing the San Francisco-based company of unlawfully targeting young people with its products to get a new generation addicted to nicotine

A panel of outside experts voted 16-1 that Paxlovid remains a safe and effective treatment for high-risk adults with Covid-19

Matthew Kacsmaryk was appointed by President Donald Trump and confirmed in 2019 over fierce opposition by Democrats over his history opposing LGBTQ rights

A decision against the drug would be swiftly appealed by US Department of Justice attorneys representing the FDA

The pharmacy giant indicated it would not sell an abortion pill by mail in some conservative-led states