U.S. health officials are investigating 215 possible cases of severe lung disease associated with vaping across 25 states, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration said in a joint statement Friday. The agencies said they need more information to understand whether there’s a relationship between specific products or substances […]
FDA Clears Route for Americans to Get Foreign Meds Cheaply…
Americans will soon be able to import lower-cost prescription drugs from foreign countries like Canada as part of a plan unveiled Wednesday by the Trump administration. The announcement outlines two separate import pathways for pharmacists, wholesalers and states, using authority from sections of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. Through one pathway, states, pharmacists […]
Newly Released Emails Shows Member of Purdue Pharma Sackler Family Agreed to Understate OxyContin’s Risks…
Former FDA Commissioner Says Agency Erred in Allowing Drug Companies to Promote Opioids for Long-Term Use…
Dr. David Kessler, the FDA commissioner in the 1990s at the time Purdue’s powerful, long-acting opioid OxyContin was first approved, says the FDA never should have allowed the drug and others like it to be broadly marketed for chronic pain patients. The agency erred in radically extending the market for opioids despite the lack of […]
Trump Administration Seeks Public Comments on Marijuana Reclassification…
The federal government wants your input on whether marijuana should be reclassified under global drug treaties to which the U.S. is a party. Specifically, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is asking for public comments about the “abuse potential, actual abuse, medical usefulness, trafficking, and impact of scheduling changes on availability for medical use” […]
Regulators Face Food Fight Over Lab-Grown Meat…
A food fight has been brewing over how the government should regulate animal tissue grown in labs. The prospect of lab-grown tissue has raised the hopes of animal welfare and environmental groups because it is created without slaughter and meant to substitute for traditional pork, beef, chicken, and fish. But divisions have emerged between the […]
FDA Conducts Surprise Inspection of E-Cigarette Maker Juul as Part of Crackdown…
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said Tuesday that it had conducted a surprise inspection of e-cigarette maker Juul’s headquarters and collected more than a thousand pages of documents amid its crackdown on e-cigarettes. “As part of FDA’s ongoing efforts to prevent youth use of tobacco products, particularly e-cigarettes, last week the agency conducted an […]
FDA Threatens to Stop Sales of Flavored E-Cigarettes…
The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday announced it may force e-cigarette manufacturers to stop selling flavored products, citing what Commissioner Scott Gottlieb called an “epidemic” of youth use. Five companies, including JUUL Labs, Inc., maker of the popular, USB-drive shaped device with nicotine flavors, will have 60 days to give the FDA a strategy […]
Inside Juul Labs–How the Vaping Giant Hooked its Users and Bacame a $15B Company…
Juul looks like a sleek USB flash drive, its flavor pods are packed with nicotine and it is the latest trend in e-cigarettes. In the past year, San Francisco-based Juul Labs has rapidly overtaken the U.S. e-cigarette market. Sales have skyrocketed nearly 800 percent, helping Juul capture a 71 percent of share of the market, […]
STUDY: Teens Get More Nicotine With E-Cigarettes Than Traditional Cigs…
Teen users of popular “pod” vaping devices like JUUL brands are exposed to a higher amount of nicotine than with traditional cigarettes and older generations of e-cigarettes, according to a study published Friday in the journal Tobacco Control. The Food and Drug Administration is investigating JUUL’s popularity among teens and adolescents as part of a […]