FDA approves first over-the-counter birth control pill
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.
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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.
The goal of the guidance is to reduce the exposure of babies and young children to environmental contaminants through food.
Perrigo wants to sell its Opill brand birth control pills in stores without a prescription.
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.
A federal appeals court has preserved access to an abortion drug for now but under tighter rules that would allow the drug only to be dispensed up to seven weeks, not 10, and not by mail.
The judge ruled that the FDA's more than 20-year-old approval was unlawful.
In the 12-month period ending in Oct. 2022, the United States recorded 101,750 overdose deaths, primarily from opioids.
Drugmaker plans to roll out the drug, which it says can relieve migraine symptoms in 30 minutes, to pharmacies in July.
Xylazine is "increasingly present" in the nation's drug supply and has been found in overdose deaths from coast to coast.
General Mills and other packaged-food giants say the government's push to tighten food labeling rules is unconstitutional.
The recall applies to more than 302,000 bottles of the drink.
None of the contaminated products have been sold in the United States, the agency told CBS News.
The FDA wants to simplify the Covid-19 vaccine process to look more like what happens with the flu vaccine, according to documents posted online.
The medication, Lecanemab, was designed to reduce amyloid beta plaque in the brain that's linked to the disease.
The recommendations were made to better protect public health.
After the infant formula shortage, a new report recommends major changes within the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. KDKA's Briana Smith breaks it all down.
Seek a healthcare professional if you start to feel sick after eating the raspberries.
The availability of children's painkillers first started dropping in June.
U.S. regulators have finalized a long-awaited rule that's expected to allow millions of Americans to buy hearing aids without a prescription.
King's Hawaiian is voluntarily recalling some of its products due to possible microbial contamination.
The FDA said the companies have 15 days to address the violations.
The products were not kept at safe temperatures while being shipped.
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.
