Tag: US Food and Drug Administration

Major tobacco producers saw their share prices tumble on Friday after US health officials said they would explore ways to ...

A cancer treatment that genetically alters immune cells has shown success in 71 percent of adults with the most common ...

An advisory panel on Wednesday unanimously urged the US Food and Drug Administration to approve a cutting-edge cancer therapy that ...

An experimental cancer medicine called larotrectinib has shown promise treating a diverse range of cancers in people young and old, ...

The first large-scale clinical trial of a cannabis derivative known as cannabidiol shows it was able to cut the frequency ...

Almost one in three newly approved drugs in the United States turns out to have a safety issue after it ...

US health authorities on Monday studied the remains of a dead bat discovered inside a prepackaged salad mix sold in ...

A new smartphone device can analyze a man's sperm quality and let him know in a matter of minutes whether ...

An unproven stem cell therapy that involves extracting a patient's fat tissue and injecting it into the eyes has caused ...

Facing pressure from environmentalists and shareholder activists, major US food companies and restaurant chains are moving to limit antibiotics in ...

Gene editing, which has raised ethical concerns due to its capacity to alter human DNA, is being considered in the ...

The number of older Americans taking multiple prescription drugs such as tranquilizers, antidepressants, antipsychotics and painkillers has more than doubled ...

US President Barack Obama said it is "premature" to send an experimental medicine for the treatment of Ebola to West ...

A plant has been found to halt the deadly Ebola virus in its tracks in laboratory tests, scientists have said. ...