WASHINGTON (AP) — Shoppers buying eyedrops at a store might assume they’re getting a product made in a clean, well-maintained factory that’s passed muster with health regulators. Repeated recalls involving over-the-counter drops, however, are drawing new attention to just how little federal officials know about the conditions at some manufacturing plants on the other side [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — White House officials will take more time to review a sweeping plan from federal health regulators to ban menthol cigarettes, an unexpected delay that anti-tobacco groups fear could scuttle the long-awaited rule. Administration officials earlier this month indicated the process will continue into next year, targeting March to implement the rule, according [...]
Most cities around the country would have to replace lead water pipes within 10 years under new rules proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency as the Biden administration moves to reduce lead in drinking water and prevent public-health crises such as the ones in Flint, Mich., and Washington, D.C. Millions of people consume drinking water [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Life expectancy for Americans rose last year — by more than a year — but still isn't close to what it was before the COVID-19 pandemic. The 2022 rise was mainly due to the waning pandemic, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention researchers said last week, but even with the increase, [...]
Researchers at The Ohio State University reported they were surprised to learn the extent to which early-life stress can compound the effects of a childhood head injury on health and behavior later in life. In research presented at Neuroscience 2023, the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, scientists detailed the results of an animal [...]
For most of her life, Claudia Stearns dreaded Thanksgiving. As a person who struggled with obesity since childhood, Stearns hated the annual turmoil of obsessing about what she ate — and the guilt of overindulging on a holiday built around food. Now, after losing nearly 100 pounds using medications including Wegovy, a powerful new anti-obesity [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has announced a White House initiative to improve how the federal government approaches and funds research into the health of women, who make up more than half of the U.S. population but remain understudied and underrepresented in health research. That underrepresentation can lead to big gaps in research and [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Respiratory syncytial virus infections are rising sharply in some parts of the country, nearly filling hospital emergency departments in Georgia, Texas and some other states. To help counter the surge, federal officials last week announced they were releasing more doses of a new RSV shot for newborns that have been in [...]
A new version of the popular diabetes treatment Mounjaro can be sold as a weight-loss drug, federal regulators announced last week. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Eli Lilly’s drug Zepbound, also known as tirzepatide. The drug helped dieters lose as much as 40 to 60 pounds in testing. Zepbound is the latest diabetes [...]
More than 40 percent of American adults are considered obese, yet the medications many take are rarely tested in people who are overweight. That’s because they are not required to be included in drug studies and, often, they’re explicitly excluded. “Clinical trials and dosing instructions don’t always ensure that drugs will be safe and effective [...]