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“Consumers should not be faced with a trade-off between nutrition and food safety,” writes Susan Mayne, former director of the FDA Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition.
Read full article →For the second year in a row, the U.S. has reported a record-breaking number of measles cases. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday said the country has now confirmed 2,318 measles cases -- the highest case count since 1991.
Read full article →Fifteen years ago, the FDA overhauled its safety rules for fruits and vegetables, hoping to prevent outbreaks of foodborne illness. How's that system working today?
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- The FDA approved the first formulation of bevacizumab specifically for the treatment of neovascular (wet) age-related macular degeneration (nAMD), Outlook Therapeutics announced on Friday. The approval of bevacizumab-vikg (Lytenava...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- An FDA panel on Friday continued to recommend loosening compounding restrictions for all but one of the peptides it reviewed, despite safety concerns from agency scientists for all of them. During the second day of deliberations...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- Amgen has submitted a third-party review of avacopan's (Tavneos) pivotal trial data and other analyses to the FDA in a bid to keep the embattled drug for severe anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitis...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- The FDA approved a combination tablet of 325-mg acetaminophen and 110-mg naproxen sodium (Tylenol with Naproxen) for over-the-counter (OTC) pain relief, the agency announced Friday. The opioid-free combination tablet is indicated...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- You passed medical training, now see if you can pass our weekly quiz
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- Actor William Shatner, Captain Kirk on the original "Star Trek" television series, and his real-life daughter talk about surviving advanced cancer. (ABC News) Texas cancer centers spent billions to attract some of the world...
Read full article →The Trump administration is fighting to restore controversial provisions that a judge threw out last month, including shorter sign-up windows and heightened eligibility verification.
Read full article →The partnership, led by a national provider of endometriosis care and an awareness nonprofit, offers colleges free educational resources, screening tools and referral pathways.
Read full article →Bucking a trend set by its for-profit peers, the company outpaced the margin hit of substantial uninsured volume growth and boosted its 2026 guidance.
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