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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are investigating a mysterious outbreak of E. coli bacteria that has now spread across multiple state lines.

The House will vote on Tuesday to pass the Right to Try Act to let sick patients gain access to treatments the FDA has yet to approve.

The House has scheduled a vote for Tuesday on the “Right to Try Act,” which would enable sick patients to try medical treatments not yet approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

A Nigerian High Court has ordered manufacturers of condoms to warn users that it cannot guarantee 100 percent safe sex and to add the phrase, “Total abstinence or faithfulness is the best option.”

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is warning dog owners that store-bought bone treats can kill their four-legged companions.

The Food and Drug Administration has approved a smart pill that digitally tracks whether it is being taken as scheduled.

President Donald Trump will declare the opioid crisis a public health emergency, according to a senior administration official.

NEW YORK — During a period he served as Alabama Attorney General, Luther Strange received more campaign contributions than any other U.S .attorney general from members of a controversial lobby group peddling the dangerous prescription pain medication business amid an ongoing opioid crisis in Alabama.

The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) announced the designation of MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy for PTSD as a “breakthrough therapy” by the FDA.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is spending roughly $200,000 to study tweets about electronic cigarettes.

Texas public health officials issued an advisory this week following a spike in the number of cases of a parasitic foodborne intestinal illness often linked to the consumption of imported produce tainted with human fecal matter.

President Donald Trump met with pharmaceutical leaders on Tuesday, vowing that he would lower the costs of prescription drugs in the country by increasing competition.

Demand for abortion “pills” is on the rise, while the number of surgical abortions has declined over the decades, says a Reuters report.

Pet owners have turned to pot in order to treat many of their pets’ illnesses, reporting success after using the drug on their pets for a wide variety of ailments.

In a reported bid to protect public health, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has enlisted a Texas Tech University food center to monitor commercially-sold meat for pathogens and superbugs.

The Food and Drug Administration banned 19 chemicals used in antibacterial soaps, saying that companies have failed to prove they are safe and effective.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently gave clearance to an Israeli-developed contact lens used to treat corneal edema, a painful eye condition commonly caused by eye surgery, trauma, or aging.

With Miami-Dade County Mosquito Control rapidly losing the battle to contain the epidemic from the Zika-carrying Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, panicking authorities began aerial spraying and may soon bring in bats that can eat 1,000 mosquitoes an hour.

The Zika virus has conclusively arrived on American shores, as Florida officials announced the first confirmed cases of mosquito-transmitted infections on Friday.

A U.S. advisory panel recommended approving Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd’s long-acting opioid painkiller, Vantrela ER, saying data showed it has some abuse-resistant properties.

Former Biggest Loser contestant Suzanne Mendonca says the reality weight loss competition ruined her life.

The once $9-billion-valued Theranos appears to have admitted that its blood test data was faulty and is moving to restate two years of test results for 3 million patients.

On Thursday, medical testing company Theranos announced the departure of its president and chief operations officer, Sunny Balwani, even as a swarm of federal and state regulatory agencies descend upon the company.

It’s always a challenge to notice something that isn’t there, but should be there—the absence of a presence, one might say. And so, as we read the article in the April 28 Washington Post, “There’s a New Sheriff in town in Silicon Valley—the FDA,” we can hunt for what, or who, is missing.

A new animated video is exposing what pro-life organization Live Action says are “lies” about the abortion pill procedure that essentially “starves a baby to death over a period of days.”

A new federal ad campaign urges transgendered and gay Americans to stop smoking, warning that their lifestyle choices are no reason to choose to smoke cigarettes.

A new test for the ZIka virus has received emergency approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) just as officials announced the discovery of an additional mosquito found to be carrying the virus deep into the United States.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) have opened criminal and civil probes into blood-testing company Theranos, just days after reports that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services were proposing to shutter its labs and ban its founder from the medical testing business.

President of the March for Life Education and Defense Fund Jeanne Mancini joined Breitbart News Daily host and executive chairman Stephen K. Bannon Thursday to discuss GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump’s comments about abortion during an MSNBC interview Wednesday, and the FDA’s authorization of the expansion of the use of the abortion drug known as RU-486.

Women in Cleveland, Ohio, have sued the Ohio Department of Taxation for the “discriminatory” sales tax on feminine products.

Planned Parenthood is celebrating the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) decision to authorize expanded use of Mifepristone, also known as RU-486, an abortion pill that can be used to end an unborn baby’s life. The taxpayer-funded abortion business tweeted the

We’ve been watching for some time how one federal agency or another wants to take away your freedom of choice. Usually your freedom is taken from you under the guise of “public safety,” but in reality most of the time it is simply someone who wants to stick their nose in your business because they don’t like what you may like.

Did you notice that Donald Trump, speaking in Florida on the night of March 5— fresh from victories in two of the four states that went to the polls on Saturday— cited “pharmaceuticals” as villains to be brought to political justice?

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has asked people not to donate blood if they recently traveled to countries affected by the Zika outbreak.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The American Red Cross is relying on “self-deferral” to prevent its blood supply from being infected by the mosquito-borne Zika virus.

Brazilian officials have reported two cases of Zika infections through blood transfusions in Campinas, 62 miles northwest of São Paulo.