U.S. to start rolling out updated COVID vaccine
The CDC recommends everyone 6 months and older get the new booster, as cases and hospitalizations are now rising nationwide. CBS New York's Zinnia Maldonado has the details.
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The CDC recommends everyone 6 months and older get the new booster, as cases and hospitalizations are now rising nationwide. CBS New York's Zinnia Maldonado has the details.
The FDA has been slowly loosening restrictions put in place in the '80s over concerns about AIDS and HIV.
Two people — one each in New York and Pennsylvania — have been hospitalized after eating Soft Serve On The Go.
Testing revealed some lots of the Tydemy birth control tablets did not have enough of a key ingredient.
The FDA says it hopes the drug will give people easier access to birth control, but it does raise questions about safety and usage.
Many popular diet sodas, light gelatins and sugar-free gums contain the artificial sweetener.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first over-the-counter birth control pill, allowing Americans to buy Opill, a daily oral contraceptive, without a prescription.
PRIME faces scrutiny from lawmakers and health experts over its potentially dangerous levels of caffeine.
The FDA has approved a drug for people in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease. CBS News' chief medical correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook explains how it works, the risks and who might benefit.
The drug has been found in an increasing number of overdoses and overdose deaths. Federal officials named it a "growing threat" in April.
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the international supply chain for several cancer medications has been strained.
Over 295 medications, from cancer drugs to those treating asthma and infections, are in short supply.
Additional recall includes frozen strawberry products sold under a variety of brands at Costco, Walmart and HEB stores.
A nationwide chemotherapy drug shortage is delaying treatment for some cancer patients in New York.
Consumer Reports is calling on the agency to set a lower limit, noting arsenic can damage children's brains and nervous systems.
Some say different date labels are why huge amounts of food get thrown away everyday in American households.
The agency said that blood donor eligibility will now be based on an individual's personal risks.
Drugmaker HRA Pharma wants to sell birth control pills without a prescription.
Discount retail chain pulled bottles of the pain medication off shelves at an unspecified number of its stores.
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.
Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement the Justice Department "strongly disagrees" with the decision from an appeals court.
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.
The FDA is considering a ban on menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars that advocates claim are marketed to Black Americans with lethal consequences.
The abortion medication pill can still be accessed right now. We won't know for another week if that will change.
In the 12-month period ending in Oct. 2022, the United States recorded 101,750 overdose deaths, primarily from opioids.
