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FDA Commissioner Apologizes For Exaggerating Benefits Of COVID-19 Plasma Therapy Pushed By Trump

Stephen Hahn, the Food and Drug Administration Commissioner, apologized Monday and issued a mea culpa for overstating the benefits of…

4 years ago

Federal Government Left With 63 Million Doses Of Hydroxychloroquine After FDA Revokes Emergency Use

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) revoked the emergency use authorization of the antimalarial drugs hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine for the…

4 years ago

FDA Revokes Emergency Approval Trump-Promoted Drug Hydroxychloroquine As In ‘Ineffective’

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Monday revoked emergency approval of hydroxychloroquine, an anti-malaria drug, that the agency originally…

4 years ago

FDA Authorizes At-Home Saliva COVID-19 Test

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency use authorization for the first at-home saliva COVID-19 test on Friday. …

5 years ago

FDA To Announce Emergency Use Of Remdesivir For COVID-19, Fauci ‘Very Optimistic’

After a trial showed the drug remdesivir shortened recovery time for the coronavirus, the FDA plans to announce emergency authorization…

5 years ago

FDA Discourages Using At-Home Coronavirus Test, Testing Companies Pause Sales

Everlywell and Nurx, two popular home testing companies announced they have created an at-home coronavirus test consumers can purchase. On…

5 years ago

FDA Suspends Routine Food Supply Inspections Due To Government Shutdown

The Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday that it has suspended its routine inspections of food supply amid the partial…

6 years ago

Supreme Court Rejects Lawsuit To Restrict Mifepristone Abortion Pill

On Thursday, the Supreme Court unanimously dismissed the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine's attempt to restrict access to mifepristone, a key…

5 months ago

Government Shutdown Looms Again As Senate GOP Blocks Funding Bill

A government shutdown is possible at midnight Friday if senators can't pass a package of spending bills. Republican senators are…

9 months ago

Supreme Court Pauses Ruling On Mifepristone Access

Future access to Mifepristone, an abortion pill now used in more than half of the abortions in the U.S., rests…

2 years ago

DeSantis Signs Six-Week Abortion Ban In Florida As GOP Primary Heats Up

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) signed into law a six-week abortion ban, a move made possible by the reversal of Roe v.…

2 years ago

Judges In Texas & Washington Make Contradictory Rulings On Abortion Pill Mifepristone Access

Texas federal Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk ruled on Friday that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) incorrectly approved mifepristone – a…

2 years ago

California Cancels $54 Million Contract With Walgreens After It Stops Selling Abortion Pill In Red States

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) withdrew a $54 million contract with Walgreens, saying the state will no longer work with the…

2 years ago

Trump-Appointed Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk Could Rule To Make Abortion Pill Illegal Nationwide

A Texas federal judge will rule on a lawsuit that seeks to reverse the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) approval…

2 years ago

Biden Administration Opens Medicaid To Offer Drug Treatments In Prisons

The federal government plans to open Medicaid assistance to fund drug treatment in U.S. prisons. The policy change, announced by…

2 years ago

Florida Warns Pharmacies Not To Disperse Abortion Pills

Florida officials gave stark warnings to retailers after pharmacies announced plans to provide abortion pills. Florida’s Agency for Healthcare Administration…

2 years ago

GOP Senate Nominee Dr. Oz Promoted Questionable Products On TV Show

For years, Dr. Mehmet Oz, the Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, established himself as a popular figure…

2 years ago

What Is Paxlovid, Joe Biden’s COVID-19 Medication?

President Joe Biden has tested positive for Covid-19, and the White House reported that he is taking Paxlovid, the medication…

2 years ago

New Cancer Treatment Dostarlimab Shows Most Promising Results Ever Seen

In a recent study at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 18 cancer patients were testing a new treatment for…

2 years ago

Biden Uses Defense Protection Act To Combat Baby Formula Shortage

The Biden administration will invoke the Defense Protection Act to address the nationwide baby formula shortage caused by bacterial contamination…

3 years ago