The Food and Drug Administration approved a daily oral contraceptive pill for use without a prescription on Thursday, a landmark event that comes as some U.S. states have sought to restrict access to birth control and abortion.
YES! 💉😷 “#FDA gave the green light to updated #Covid-19 #vaccine booster shots from #Moderna and #Pfizer/BioNTech. The updated vaccines are each approved for people 12 and older and are authorized under emergency use for individuals 6 months through 11 years old. As part of the FDA’s update, the original bivalent Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccines are no longer authorized for use in the US” 1/...
⚠️ “#FDA advisory panel declared an ingredient in widely used oral #decongestants doesn’t work, setting the stage for dozens of products to be removed from U.S. store shelves.
At issue is phenylephrine, an almost-century-old ingredient in versions of Benadryl, Mucinex, Tylenol and other over-the-counter pills, syrups and liquids to clear up congested noses.”
FDA approves nonprofit's over-the-counter opioid overdose nasal spray used to reverse opioid overdose
RiVive, made by Harm Reduction Therapeutics, is the second #nonprescription#naloxone product the FDA has approved.
But unlike other opioid overdose products, the 3 milligram treatment will be available for free or low cost, and its sales will bring no profit to its manufacturer
“#FDA has approved blood test that can identify pregnant women who are at imminent risk of developing a severe form of high blood pressure called pre-eclampsia, a leading cause of disability and death among childbearing women.
The condition disproportionately affects Black women in the United States…” #health#WomensHealth
The Food and Drug Administration is warning consumers not to use any at-home tests made by Universal Meditech, Inc. (UMI), the company behind an illegal medical lab hidden in a warehouse in the small city of Reedley, California. The lab was shut down earlier this year by local, state, and federal agencies, which are still...
"A scientific paper that raised concerns about the safety of the abortion pill mifepristone was retracted by its publisher this week. The study was cited three times by a federal judge who ruled against mifepristone last spring. That case, which could limit access to mifepristone throughout the country, will soon be heard in the Supreme Court."
Cereals are harming Americans' health bc CEOs allowed toxic chemicals to taint their products. General Mills, PepsiCo, other food brands, & the growers are responsible for the harmful chem.
Make it make sense. On one hand, when it comes to medications that chemically induce early term #abortions, we are not supposed to take them because the #FDA didn't test them enough. But on the other hand, we have this. We cannot bar doctors for prescribing #ivermectin for COVID because it was never tested on that virus at all.
Deadline for comments is June 26th. If you know of anyone who has Long COVID please pass this along to them or to someone who cares for them. We need to make our government organizations see how urgent it is to start developing treatments for this.
An #FDA advisory panel found that the benefits of making a #BirthControl#pill available over the counter outweighed the risks. The agency is expected to decide this summer whether to allow nonprescription sales of an oral contraceptive
"The investigation has found that most medical devices, including many implants, are now cleared for sale by the FDA without tests for safety or effectiveness. Instead, manufacturers must simply show they have “substantial equivalence” to a product already in the marketplace — an approval process some experts view as vastly overused and fraught with risks."
"Sidney M. Wolfe, a doctor turned consumer activist who battled drug companies, lobbyists and regulators during a nearly five-decade crusade against ineffective, risky and overpriced medications that made him a hero to patient advocacy groups and an implacable foe to anyone who opposed him, died Jan. 1 at his home in Washington. He was 86."
#FDA Repeatedly Rejected #Safety Claims About Philips Breathing Machines, Emails Show
As Philips reassured patients that millions of recalled machines were safe, internal emails show federal regulators privately told the company its testing didn’t account for the impact of long-term harm from tainted devices.
FDA approves Opill, the first daily birth control pill without a prescription (www.npr.org)
The Food and Drug Administration approved a daily oral contraceptive pill for use without a prescription on Thursday, a landmark event that comes as some U.S. states have sought to restrict access to birth control and abortion.
Don’t use pregnancy tests linked to illegal California lab, FDA warns (arstechnica.com)
The Food and Drug Administration is warning consumers not to use any at-home tests made by Universal Meditech, Inc. (UMI), the company behind an illegal medical lab hidden in a warehouse in the small city of Reedley, California. The lab was shut down earlier this year by local, state, and federal agencies, which are still...