Food and Drug Administration

The drug, Kisunla, made by Eli Lilly, is the latest in a new class of treatments that could modestly slow cognitive decline in initial stages of the disease but also carry safety risks.

It’s time to use warning labels to steer people away from food that’s bad for them.

Challenges could range from whether tainted spinach can be traced back to a farm to a decision on whether drugs are safe and effective enough to be sold in the United States.

The decision is expected to prompt a rush of litigation challenging regulations across the entire federal government, from food safety to the environment.

The court’s strategy of avoidance and delay cannot last and may have been shaped by a desire to avoid controversy in an election year.

Airlines, restaurants and hotels are all making travel easier for people with sensitivities to foods like peanuts, wheat and milk, but it’s still critical to be your own advocate.

The Times’s science and global health reporter shared how the pandemic shaped her current reporting on viruses, including bird flu, which is seeing an uptick in cases.

The decision came less than two months after the Biden administration delayed a decision on whether to ban traditional menthol-flavored cigarettes.

Los efectos del sildenafil en la excitación femenina son ambiguos, de acuerdo a las investigaciones. Eso no impide que se siga recetando a algunas mujeres.

Research on how the drug affects female arousal is sparse. But doctors have been prescribing creams and pills anyway.

To report on the dangers of hair straightening products, one writer recalled her childhood — and that of other Black women.

The decision does not eliminate efforts to restrict the availability of the pill.

A ruling on technical grounds means a widely used drug will soon come under attack again.

They’ve been linked to reproductive disorders and cancers. Why are they still being marketed so aggressively to Black women?

Plus, a dispatch from the U.S.-Mexico border.

The modest benefits of the treatment, donanemab, made by Eli Lilly, outweigh the risks, the panel concluded unanimously.

At least 48 people have fallen ill after eating Diamond Shruumz products. The F.D.A. said it had found the brand’s products contained toxic levels of a psychoactive chemical.

Agents from various federal agencies will focus on unauthorized candy-flavored and nicotine-laden vapes that have flooded the U.S. market from overseas.

The panel endorsed targeting a variant of the coronavirus that is now receding, though some officials suggested aiming at newer versions of the virus that have emerged in recent weeks.

An independent group of experts expressed concerns that the data from clinical trials did not outweigh risks for treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder.

Therapy and medication can help people recover from trauma, but many struggle to access the care they need.

An F.D.A. advisory panel dealt a setback to those seeking treatment for PTSD, citing health risks of the illegal drug and study flaws.

The agency’s staff analysis suggests that approval of the illegal drug known as Ecstasy for treatment of PTSD is far from certain, with advisers meeting next week to consider the proposed therapy.

On sites like Infowars, Gab and Rumble, federal concerns about raw milk are seen as overreach, but there are serious health risks and no scientifically proven benefits.

The Guardant Health Shield test, one committee member said, “is better than nothing for patients who are getting nothing, but it is not better than a colonoscopy.”

The new case, in a Michigan farmworker, did not suggest that bird flu was widespread in people, health officials said, adding that the risk to the general public remained low.

Elon Musk’s first human experiment with a computerized brain device developed significant flaws, but the subject, who is paralyzed, has few regrets.

He also identified the virus, which can cause infants to be born with severe physical and mental impairments as well as causing miscarriages and stillbirths.

Rescheduling the drug is the beginning of the end of marijuana criminalization. Now we need to think about regulation.

Here’s what you need to know about the diabetes drug and other new medicines used for weight loss.

The treatment is for patients with small cell lung cancer, which afflicts about 35,000 people in the U.S. a year.

The highly caffeinated line of Charged drinks at Panera Bread was the subject of two wrongful-death lawsuits.

All vaccines have at least occasional side effects. But people who say they were injured by Covid vaccines believe their cases have been ignored.

But the scope of the outbreak among cattle remains uncertain, and little human testing has been done.

The outbreak linked to shelled organic walnuts distributed by Gibson Farms has sickened 12 people and hospitalized seven in California and Washington State, federal officials said.

Zeynep Tufekci studied the U.S. response to Covid. Now she’s concerned about the nation’s response to bird flu.

Thousands of people with sleep apnea and other illnesses had sued the company, claiming flawed devices were harming them.

The early results suggest that pasteurization is killing the H5N1 virus in milk, something that regulators were not certain of.

The proposal had been years in the making, in an effort to curb death rates of Black smokers targeted by Big Tobacco. In an election year, the president’s worries about support among Black voters may have influenced the postponement.

There is no evidence that the milk is unsafe to drink, scientists say. But the survey result strongly hints that the outbreak may be widespread.