FDA Watchdog

Fentanyl is now responsible for the most overdose deaths in the US

The unusual way the U.S. regulates ingredients is in the news and the hot seat right now, thanks to...

The crisis is long over, but if you were a young family with babies three years ago, scary memories...

The crisis is long over, but if you were a young family with babies three years ago, scary memories...

A proposed ban on formaldehyde in chemical hair straightening products—linked to cancer and other he...

FDA ordered to disclose COVID-19 vaccine data after lawsuit, revealing transparency concerns.

The U.S. food supply is generally considered safe, but tens of millions of people get sick from food...

Drugmakers plan to raise U.S. prices on at least 250 branded medications including Pfizer PFE.N COVI...

The group is also taking a $265 million provision to cover any extra settlement costs linked to the...

Always steps behind the rest of the world

Deaths from synthetic opioids such as fentanyl have soared in recent decades

The US Food and Drug Administration has settled a lawsuit over some of its posts about ivermectin, i...

“I’m concerned that the FDA is failing in its mission. It is not adequately executing its foreign in...

FDA's failure to address device risks leads to patient harm, with thousands of complaints ignored.

We called it the invisible graveyard, the place they buried people killed by FDA delay.

House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) and Subcommittee on Hea...

In a letter shared with STAT, Sens. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) warned FDA Commiss...

A study showed promise in treating a rare disease. The agency wouldn’t even look at the results.

The media has caught up to the potential health benefits of metformin, something our long-term suppo...

Volumes of studies prove that fish oil can safely lower dangerous levels of triglycerides. Despite t...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday extended for the second time its review of Amicus Th...

Innova has not yet secured Food and Drug Administration authorization to sell the tests in the Unite...

U.S. state and territorial governments say the opioid crisis has cost them $630 billion since 2007 a...

The Food and Drug Administration, along with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, failed...

Congress’s mandate that medications be proved effective is unnecessary and delays potential cures.

[In] 2001, pressured by Big Pharma and pain sufferers, the FDA made a fateful decision and, with no...

What counts for good news in health care costs may be a case of simply staunching the bleeding.

New data on drug spending by the nation’s two biggest health-coverage programs released Monday shows...

Duchenne is the most common and lethal form of muscular dystrophy.

Where does innovation come from? The new devices for sale on Black Friday and Cyber Monday? It's cer...

New technologies are poised to launch a health care revolution, improving care and cutting costs. Un...

Paying Till It Hurts

If you own a cherry orchard, don’t be surprised when heavily armed federal agents wearing bullet pro...

Metformin Makes Headline News

In a wrongful prosecution, Jay Kimball was sentenced to 13 years in prison for exporting a low-cost...

"One in four cancer patients or their families said they used up all or most of their savings to pay...

No organization has battled high drug prices more aggressively than the Life Extension Foundation. N...

Great news on drug prices for consumers.

In the 1980s, The Life Extension Foundation launched a media blitz to inform the public that America...