New hope for those suffering from Alzheimer's disease as a new drug is FDA approved
It's shown some promise in delaying the disease, but there are two concerns about the drug. CBS 2's Noel Brennan today's game-changing decision.
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It's shown some promise in delaying the disease, but there are two concerns about the drug. CBS 2's Noel Brennan today's game-changing decision.
Additional recall includes frozen strawberry products sold under a variety of brands at Costco, Walmart and HEB stores.
Perrigo wants to sell its Opill brand birth control pills in stores without a prescription.
Up to 10,000 deaths and 160,000 hospitalizations a year are caused by RSV in seniors.
Limits on how late into a pregnancy the drug can be taken, who can prescribe it and how it can be dispensed were set to take effect Saturday at 1 a.m.
The court maintained access to mifepristone for the time being but is only letting it be dispensed after a doctor's office visit, not by mail, and up to seven weeks into a pregnancy, not 10.
In the 12-month period ending in Oct. 2022, the United States recorded 101,750 overdose deaths, primarily from opioids.
The FDA issued the voluntary recall on "dry shampoo aerosol products produced prior to October 2021..."
The FDA's panel of vaccine advisers voted unanimously that the benefits of Pfizer's and Moderna's shots outweigh the risks in young children.
The FDA has pledged to "move with all expediency" to review the company's data on a lower-dose kids' vaccine.
Citing a "robust response" of antibodies against Omicron in their vaccine trials, the companies said they were planning to submit a request "in the coming days."
"We're hoping that by taking this action, we will help allow people to take steps to protect themselves should we have another wave that comes through this country," the FDA's top vaccines official, Dr. Peter Marks, told reporters.
The FDA is delaying a decision on COVID-19 shots for children under 5 years of age.
Pfizer has asked the Food and Drug Administration for full approval for its COVID-19 vaccine, and the trickle down effects could have a big impact, including whether schools or employers can require vaccinations.
"I just thought, since it's an empty vial, I did not think it was a big deal," said John Li, director of pharmacy at Thorek Memorial Hospital.
The Food and Drug Administration advised avoiding nine products made by a company in Mexico called Eskbiochem.
A Chicago dentist's office is among three companies accused of peddling illegal at-home coronavirus antibody testing kits.
The Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration spoke out after reports that Abbott Labs knew COVID-19 rapid tests may give inaccurate results.
Antibodies mean someone likely had the coronavirus and may have immunity to it. But there are some real concerns about the accuracy of some of the antibody tests.
Officials this week issued a warning that romaine lettuce from Salinas, California is to blame for an E. coli outbreak.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning dog owners of a possible link between certain dog food brands and a serious form of canine heart disease.
If the partial government shutdown doesn't end Tuesday, some 800,000 federal workers will miss another paycheck on Friday, marking the second time federal workers have gone without pay since the shutdown began 32 days ago.
The strain of E. coli causing the current outbreak in romaine lettuce has been found in a reservoir on a farm in Santa Barbara County, California, the US Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Thursday.
When it comes to medical devices, none have had more reported problems over the last decade than insulin pumps, a product that's used by hundreds of thousands of diabetics around the world, many of them children.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently staged a surprise inspection and seized "over a thousand documents" at the headquarters of Juul, the nation's leading e-cigarette manufacturer.
