Opioid Deaths Follow Where Big Pharma Spends Money on Marketing to Doctors
A new study suggests drug-company practices helped create the current epidemic.
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‘Right to Try’ Law Will Give Terminally Ill Patients Access to Experimental Drugs
The bill will allow terminally ill patients to request experimental drugs that the FDA has not yet approved.
Five Facts About the FDA’s New Menu Labeling Rule
The calorie counts you've long seen at Starbucks will be at every chain restaurant starting today.
A Decade After the FDA Warned Doctors About Methadone, States Finally Stopped Recommending It
When used as a pain reliever, methadone is especially likely to cause unintentional overdoses.
The FDA and the USDA Partner to Improve Food Safety
The outlined agreement emphasizes collaboration on common interests to improve food safety and to provide more information to Americans on products they purchase from store shelves.
Why Gene Therapy Is No Longer a Pipe Dream
After decades of disappointment, cures to once-incurable diseases seem within reach.
The FDA’s Proposed Crackdown on Homeopathy Takes Aim at Risky Remedies
Homeopathic products include everything from the radically alternative to certain over-the-counter cold and allergy medicines.
The FDA Just Approved a New Injection for Treating Opioid Addiction. Will Drug Courts Actually Let Defendants Take It?
The new treatment may help overcome some courts' lingering—and dangerous—aversion to medication-assisted treatment.
FDA Approves Monthly Injection to Treat Opioid Addiction
Buprenorphine has long been considered a gold-standard treatment for addiction to prescription painkillers or heroin.
The Food and Drug Administration Closes a Loophole in Stem Cell Clinic Regulations
Under the new rules, a recent procedure at a Florida clinic that left three elderly women blind would have been outlawed from the start.