The Latest Breaking News from FDA

The FDA has opened the public comment period for the agency’s proposed ban on menthol cigarettes. Epidemiology and global health professor Rafael Meza studies data modeling in disease prevention and cancer risk. David Mendez, who studies smoking cessation and tobacco control policies, is an associate professor of health management and…

Ronald Hall is a professor in the School of Social Work at Michigan State University. He has written over 200 books/articles/monographs, etc., on colorism – discrimination on the basis of skin tone, often among the same ethnic or racial group. Below are highlights from an interview with The Conversation. Answers…

Lawmakers are scrambling to end the formula shortage, but experts say it will be months before families will feel an impact.

Americans generally don’t spend much time thinking about the nation’s blood supply.

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Since their debut just 18 months ago, three COVID-19 vaccines have saved an estimated 2.2 million American lives, changed the trajectory of a pandemic and inspired all manner of conspiracy theories.

The FDA has decided not to authorize fluvoxamine, an antidepressant, to treat COVID-19. The agency that data has not shown the drug to be an effective therapeutic for fighting the virus. "Based on the review of available scientific evidence, the FDA has determined that the data are insufficient to conclude that fluvoxamine…

The FDA has signed off Sorrento Therapeutics Inc's (NASDAQ:SRNE) investigational new drug application (IND) for Abivertinib (Fujovee) for Phase 2 MAVERICK study in metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC).  The MAVERICK study will be conducted in a partnership with the Prostate Cancer Clinical Trials Consortium and will enroll participants with both abiraterone-naïve and abiraterone-progressing…

With children hospitalised and parents paying up to $100 for a can, the president has now invoked a wartime measure to try to ensure there is enough formula to feed America’s babies