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Moves by the Biden administration to expand access to a drug first approved in 2000 have spawned multiple lawsuits.

By almost any measure, the vaccination campaign against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, has been a global success.

Toxic metal can be harmful to developing brains. New lead targets are part of a broad FDA imitative to reduce children's exposure to the lowest levels possible.

Money and lobbying help shield lab-developed tests, including prenatal screenings, from heightened federal scrutiny

A treatment that improves Alzheimer’s disease would be a great advance, but Leqembi (lecanemab), which recently received accelerated approval from the FDA, is not that drug. Yes, lecanemab slows decline to an extent detectable on a test, but not to an extent that a relative or caretaker would notice. This…

An independent investigation into logging in the Liberian rainforest found illegal operations “on a significant scale,” with multiple missteps or breaches of law by the government agency charged with protecting those forests

Americans will get a clearer idea of how often they’ll roll up their sleeves for COVID-19 shots when advisers to U.S. regulators meet Thursday to discuss an immunization schedule that looks more like the one used for flu.

The virus has not yet fully settled into a pattern of seasonality and may never, experts caution.

Questions have been raised about how Australia ensures the quality of its imported medicines after a major pharmaceutical company was warned over lapses in contamination control and manufacturing practices.

U.S. health officials want to make COVID-19 vaccinations more like the annual flu shot

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