‘People are dying’: A popular painkiller in Spain may have killer side effects

A new study finds that after drug approvals are fast-tracked, required trials are slow to follow

Citing failed studies, FDA rejects breast cancer drug

Many people want to give trial drugs a chance to save their lives. Here’s how they’ll have to do it

Even the FDA has no idea what’s in the food you eat. And here’s why

What’s in a label? Not much, if it says ‘all natural’

Senate passes food safety overhaul

EPA scraps proposed chemical safety rules

Obama administration drops objection to Plan B ruling

Judge rules Plan B must be available to all without a prescription

FDA, at the behest of HHS, denies permission to sell Plan B in front of the counter

Governors ask feds to reclassify marijuana as medicine; government balks

Public gets mixed messages regarding efficacy of Avastin for treating breast cancer

FDA controversy over Plan B contraceptive

Personalized medicine

Prescription Drugs

FDA Issues its Strongest Warning on Anti-Malaria Drug Lariam

Blogger Wu Heng, A Champion of Food Safety in China

Panel Endorses HIV Drug Truvada for FDA Approval

New FDA Guidelines for Nano Particles

Unapproved Hip Replacement Caused Pain Worldwide

Health Secretary Overturns Plan B Decision

Breast Cancer Survivor Questions FDA Decision on Her ‘Miracle’ Drug

FDA slaps new regulations on sunscreen

Budget Fight Continues in Congress

Knowing What You Eat

FDA Puts Transgenic Fish on the Scales

Inspectors give the Low Down on Food Safety

War of the Sciences

Cloned Little Piggies Going to Market?

Sizing Up Supplements

Animal Antibiotics

When a solution becomes a problem: doctors and lawmakers on opiate painkillers

FDA panel votes to keep Avandia on the market

Takeouts: FDA cutting down salt; Supreme Court on animal cruelty videos

Pfizer Settlement: An Over-the-Counter Drug Bust

The morning after: Judge rules FDA used politics, not science, to make decisions