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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the world’s first vaccine to prevent the respiratory infection RSV, short for respiratory syncytial virus, on May 3, 2023. The new shot represents six decades of starts and stops in the…

Political pressure is nothing new for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The agency has frequently come under fire for its drug approval decisions, but attacks on its decision-making process and science itself have increased…

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration finalized a regulation in early March 2023 that updates mammography reporting requirements. The new regulation goes into effect on Sept. 10, 2024, and will require that all women receive…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Food and Drug Administration officials on Friday pledged a reset in the agency’s tobacco program, responding to……

The government agency responsible for tracking down contaminated peanut butter and defective pacemakers is taking on a new health hazard: online misinformation. WASHINGTON…

Gaithersburg, Maryland-based biotech Emergent BioSolutions stands to gain from a Food and Drug Administration decision to make opioid overdose drug Narcan available without a prescription. It makes the nasal spray version of the…

A bipartisan group of senators on Wednesday slammed the “repeated failures” at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to regulate e-cigarettes and take action against companies illegally marketing products to minors. Led by Sen. Dick…

The U.S. is poised to make COVID-19 vaccinations more like a yearly flu shot, a major shift in strategy despite… The U.S. is poised to…

Topline The Food and Drug Administration will reportedly propose a new strategy for Covid-19 vaccinations on Monday that is likely to involve a simpler approach similar to annual flu vaccines, NPR reported, citing an unnamed federal…

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the medication lecanemab, sold under the brand name Leqembi, on Jan. 6, 2023, through an “accelerated approval pathway” that fast-tracks promising clinical treatments for diseases in which…