food and drug administration

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania has joined the chorus of states expressing dissatisfaction with federal food regulations. Republican Rep. Natalie Mihalek of...

HARRISBURG (TNS)—Pennsylvania agricultural officials are striking a cautious tone in the wake of two Trump Administration measures poised to significa...

PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker could potentially have a new and unexpected partner to push his objectives on improving th...

More than 6 million Americans are diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and each day nearly 3,000 patients may progress from mild to moderate dementia due to the...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — A new drug for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease was approved by the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday, providing an optio...

(TNS) — As tensions with China continue to rise, especially over trade and sensitive technological theft, it is critical that one facet of our nationa...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senators on Wednesday blasted top health and law enforcement officials for not doing more to combat the rise of illegal electronic c...

The Food and Drug Administration has been on the warpath against e-cigarettes, going so far this June as to try to ban Juul products from the marketpl...

The old legal maxim is that everything which is not forbidden is permitted. Many public-health experts apparently have their own version of this rule ...

RESOLUTIONS: Along with hitting the gym more often and starting a diet, quitting smoking tops many New Year’s resolution lists. Quitting tobacco isn’t...

The announcement of a new drug to treat Alzheimer’s disease was greeted this week with celebration and skepticism. The Food and Drug Administration ap...

Since the first COVID-19 vaccines became available in December, the push has been on. Get the shot to the medical personnel, to the most vulnerable, t...

The Pennsylvania Department of Health has announced support for vaccination of those age 12 and over, following the approval of the Pfizer vaccine for...

It seems like a solution that’s almost too simple: Make more COVID-19 vaccines available by allowing one of the drug manufacturers to increase the amo...

Scientists and researchers the world over have harnessed the energy of their minds and hearts to craft a weapon against the persistent and deadly COVI...

HARRISBURG — Rep. Martin Causer, R-Turtlepoint, and members of the House Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee demonstrated their support for Pennsy...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has given approval for U.S. clinical trials of a Cuban-developed lung cancer vaccine that stimulate...