In a decision expected to send a chill through the booming stem-cell industry, a federal judge ruled in favor of the Food and Drug Admininstration Monday in a lawsuit against a Florida-based stem cell company whose treatments have blinded at ...

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NEW YORK (AP) — The head of the Food and Drug Administration wants to more than double the number of packages his agency inspects for illicit drugs, an effort to stem a deadly flow of opioids that increasingly runs through ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Anti-addiction activists are calling for the Food and Drug Administration’s top official to step down, saying the agency’s policies have contributed to a national epidemic of prescription painkiller abuse. In a letter released Wednesday, more than a ...

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ALBANY — U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer is asking the Food and Drug Administration to prevent a powdered alcohol from reaching store shelves this fall, saying that it would become “the Kool-Aid of teen binge drinking.” The New York Democrat in ...

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ALBANY (AP) — Sen. Charles Schumer said federal regulators have agreed to back off a proposal the nation’s craft beer brewers said would hurt their businesses. Schumer had called Monday for the Food and Drug Administration to abandon a proposed ...

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WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration is lifting severe safety restrictions on the former blockbuster diabetes pill Avandia, citing recent data suggesting that the much-debated medication does not increase the risk of heart attack. The repeal means patients will ...

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BOSTON — Forty attorneys general sent a letter to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday urging the agency to meet its own deadline and regulate electronic cigarettes in the same way it regulates tobacco products. The letter, co-sponsored ...

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 The Food and Drug Administration has released some detailed information on adverse event reports related to several popular energy drinks. The release takes into account reports of adverse health events and product complaints filed with the FDA between Jan. 1, ...

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NEW YORK — U.S. health officials ramped up warnings Thursday about a Massachusetts specialty pharmacy linked to a widening outbreak of a rare kind of meningitis, urging doctors and hospitals not to use any products from the company. Investigators this ...

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The Food and Drug Administration’s expedited approval of drugs like the blood thinner Pradaxa may be endangering U.S. consumers, according to a new column in the Journal of the American Medical Association. “Although enabling new drugs with a favorable benefit-to-harm ...

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Current and former Food and Drug Administration officials say in a lawsuit that the agency secretly monitored their private email after they raised concerns that approved medical devices might risk public safety. The doctors and scientists who ...

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Two federal advisory panels voted earlier this month in favor of requiring Bayer AG to update warning labels on its popular birth control drug Yaz to reflect new concerns of an increased risk of blood clots. The Dec. 8 joint ...

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