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 recent ban of a food additive—red dye 3, an artificial dye linked to cancer in animals—and the rise of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Trump’s pick to lead the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

The crisis is long over, but if you were a young family with babies three years ago, scary memories of escalating health worries and retail stores bereft of infant formulas remain. Moms shared horrifying social media images of their babies covered in rashes after being forced to use the only (inferior) formula they could find.

The crisis is long over, but if you were a young family with babies three years ago, scary memories of escalating health worries and retail stores bereft of infant formulas remain.

A proposed ban on formaldehyde in chemical hair straightening products—linked to cancer and other health risks—has hit a roadblock after an executive order from President Donald Trump paused all new regulations.

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 foodborne illnesses each year. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has issued a report examining the reasons for the apparent safety gap.

Drugmakers plan to raise U.S. prices on at least 250 branded medications including Pfizer PFE.N COVID-19 treatment Paxlovid, Bristol Myers Squibb's BMY.N cancer cell therapies and vaccines from France's Sanofi SASY.PA at the start of 2025, according to data analyzed by healthcare research firm 3 Axis Advisors.

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

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, including what may have been one of its more popular pandemic-era social media campaigns.

“I’m concerned that the FDA is failing in its mission. It is not adequately executing its foreign inspection program, which was questionable before the pandemic, became non-existent during the pandemic, and has seen little improvement since."

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 Health Care and Financial Services Chairwoman Lisa McClain (R-Mich.) today are calling on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to provide information to understand the FDA’s response to a growing number of critical drug shortages delaying and prohibiting American patients from receiving lifesaving medical care.

In a letter shared with STAT, Sens. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) warned FDA Commissioner Robert Califf against using the method in the agency’s ongoing work to evaluate whether opioids, despite their widespread use, are effective at treating chronic pain.

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 supporters discovered long ago.

Volumes of studies prove that fish oil can safely lower dangerous levels of triglycerides. Despite this data, the FDA tried to censor a manufacturer from claiming that prescription fish oil reduced cardiovascular risk.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday extended for the second time its review of Amicus Therapeutics Inc's experimental combination therapy to treat a muscle disorder called Pompe disease.

Innova has not yet secured Food and Drug Administration authorization to sell the tests in the United States. Instead, jets loaded with tests fly overseas to serve British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's "moonshot" of mass testing.

U.S. state and territorial governments say the opioid crisis has cost them $630 billion since 2007 and that the cost could balloon to more than $2 trillion over the next two decades.

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

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 new science to back it up, expanded the use of Oxycontin to just about anyone with chronic ailments like arthritis and back pain.

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 eye-popping price hikes for a number of medications, as well as steep overall costs for several drugs.

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 certainly not driven by the government. Rather, it's all about tinkerers who ultimately drive scientific discoveries. No matter how smart our leaders are, they are never going to outperform the vast power of the millions of dabblers and dreamers in each of their individual pursuits. Tinkerers often don't start with dreams of riches; they just see a better way. They are, as my Mercatus Center colleague Bob Graboyes describes it, on the frontier, not in the fortress.

Paying Till It Hurts

If you own a cherry orchard, don’t be surprised when heavily armed federal agents wearing bullet proof vests and riot gear raid your farmhouse.

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

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

No organization has battled high drug prices more aggressively than the Life Extension Foundation. Now, with the opening of the Life Extension Pharmacy, members can reduce the risk of adverse drug reactions while saving as much as 80% on their prescription drug outlays.

Great news on drug prices for consumers.

In the 1980s, The Life Extension Foundation launched a media blitz to inform the public that Americans were overpaying for their prescription drugs.

King County Police officers, directed by agents from the Food and Drug Administration, kicked in the door of Dr. Jonathan Wright's clinic with guns drawn and pointed at clinic employees.