Beware of These Numbing Cream Manufacturers! Date Wednesday, June 17th 2009, 10:43 PM Icon 1 Date 0 1 The Food and Drug Administration warned five medication...

The BrainPort is a vision device funded by the National Eye Institute, which provides information to blind individuals via a neuro-stimulating array placed on the...

Health officials warned doctors and patients Thursday about potentially deadly risks of using the anti-wrinkle drug Botox and similar drugs for unapproved uses to treat...

Health officials are warning doctors and patients about potentially deadly risks of using anti-wrinkle drug Botox and similar drugs for unapproved uses to treat muscle...

The Food and Drug Administration has issued emergency guidance that allows certain antiviral drugs to be used in a broader range of the population in case mass dosing...

An advanced prosthesis developed by VisionCare Ophthalmic Technologies, for patients surfing with severe macular degeneration, has received a confirmatory approval from...

Government health advisers said Thursday the benefits of an experimental anticlotting drug from Johnson & Johnson outweigh its risks, including bleeding and...

Government health advisers say the benefits of an experimental blood thinner from Johnson & Johnson outweigh its risks, including internal bleeding.

A panel of cardiology experts recommends that an experimental drug from Sanofi-Aventis be approved to treat irregular heart rhythms linked to stroke.

Federal health officials say a Johnson & Johnson drug helps prevent deadly blood clots in patients getting hip or knee replacement surgery, but it also carries...

The Food and Drug Administration says an experimental drug from Sanofi-Aventis could significantly decrease hospitalizations caused by irregular heart rhythms.

A consumer watchdog group has scolded the Food and Drug Administration for taking weeks to evaluate a problem with Baxter International’s drug pumps, which have...

President Barack Obama intends to name former New York City Health Commissioner Margaret Hamburg to lead the troubled Food and Drug Administration.

Tainted peanuts. Unsterilized syringes. Salmonella in Mexican chili peppers. A contaminated blood thinner from China that sent patients into life-threatening shock.

With support from a president who’s been trying to kick the habit himself, lawmakers renewed their efforts Monday to require government regulation of cigarettes.

A marketing campaign for a GlaxoSmithKline prostate drug has drawn complaints from federal regulators, who said the space-themed advertisement is misleading.

Federal health officials are adding their sternest warning to a heartburn drug from Wyeth that has been linked to muscle spasms.

U.S. regulators say India’s largest drugmaker has falsified test results for some of its generic drugs.

An influential cardiologist who criticized an experimental Eli Lilly drug should not have been barred from a panel that evaluated the drug’s safety, federal...

Federal health officials warned doctors Monday that a drug used in epilepsy patients can cause chemical imbalances in the blood, leading to heart problems and other...