WASHINGTON (AP) — A closely watched Alzheimer's drug from Eli Lilly earlier this week won the backing of federal health advisers, setting the stage for the treatment's expected approval for people with mild dementia caused by the brain-robbing disease. Food and Drug Administration advisers voted unanimously that the drug's ability to slow the disease outweighs [...]
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Researchers using high-tech air monitoring equipment rolled through an industrialized stretch of southeast Louisiana in mobile labs and found levels of a carcinogen in concentrations as much as 10 times higher than previously estimated, according to a paper published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology. The study by researchers at [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A first-of-a-kind proposal to begin using the mind-altering drug MDMA as a treatment for PTSD was criticized earlier this week — a setback to psychedelic advocates who hope to win a landmark federal approval and bring the banned drugs into the medical mainstream. A panel of advisers to the Food and Drug [...]
For more than a decade, some residents of the Richmond, R.I., neighborhood of Canob Park drank and bathed using tap water that had been tainted by gasoline that leaked from storage tanks buried under service stations a few hundred yards from their homes. The residents spent years battling oil companies, dealing with the daily task [...]
At 17, Israel McKenzie said he was so burdened by obesity that he stopped going to high school in person and was embarrassed to speak to people at his restaurant job. "I was in a really dark place," says McKenzie, whose weight had climbed to 335 pounds on his 6-foot-1 frame, despite repeated efforts to [...]
LOUIS (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency distributed about $3 billion to states last year to replace harmful lead pipes based on unverified data, according to an agency inspector general's memo, likely meaning some states received too much money and others received too little. Investigators found two states had submitted inaccurate data, the memo dated [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — The number of fatal overdoses in the United States fell last year, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data posted last week. Agency officials noted the data is provisional and could change after more analysis, but that they still expect a drop when the final counts are in. It [...]
Sales of raw milk appear to be on the rise, despite years of warnings about the health risks of drinking the unpasteurized products — and an outbreak of bird flu in dairy cows. Since March 25, when the bird flu virus was confirmed in U.S. cattle for the first time, weekly sales of raw cow's [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Deaths of moms around the time of childbirth have fallen back to pre-pandemic levels, new government data suggests. About 680 women died last year during pregnancy or shortly after childbirth, according to provisional CDC data. That’s down from 817 deaths in 2022 and 1,205 in 2021, when it was the highest [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Makers of medical tests that have long escaped government oversight will have about four years to show that their new offerings deliver accurate results, under a new government rule opposed by the testing industry. The regulation finalized earlier this week by the Food and Drug Administration will gradually phase in oversight of [...]