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Unions welcome new proposals that lower threshold for risk assessment being triggered

MAPS Public Benefit Corporation submitted MDMA as a new drug application, making its approval more likely

Breathtaking heist in broad daylight! The dynamic duo of the FDA and CPB seize million worth of illegal e-cigarettes. Bold battle against tobacco!

Animals beware! US FDA sniffs out unapproved antibiotics case. Companies like Chewy, others warned. Will the corporate kennel become the watchdog's pan?

Up to 48 million people get sick from a foodborne illness every year, and up to 3,000 are estimated to die from them.

U.S. officials recently seized more than 1.4 million illegal e-cigarettes from the Chinese manufacturer behind Elf Bar

The US Supreme Court is set to decide the fate of a pill essential for medical abortions. Access to mifepristone, once called the “pill of Cain” by the Vatican, may be heavily restricted across all states if the highest court upholds a lower-court ruling limiting access to the drug. Expert…

In 2004, Hwang Woo-suk was celebrated for his breakthrough discovery creating cloned human embryos, and his work was published in the prestigious journal Science. But the discovery was too good to be true; Dr. Hwang had fabricated the data. Science publicly retracted the article and assembled a team to investigate…

Prescription drugs and vaccines revolutionized health care, dramatically decreasing death from disease and improving quality of life across the globe. But how do researchers, universities and hospitals, and the pharmaceutical industry decide which diseases to pursue developing drugs for?

It might seem that every time we check the news or simply go on social media, we keep getting bad news about the world. And that makes us think that at this rate, the world will end very soon. 

The Court announced today that it would take up a case involving access to the abortion-inducing drug mifepristone.