SEATTLE (AP) — The next big advance in cancer treatment could be a vaccine. After decades of limited success, scientists say research has reached a turning point, with many predicting more vaccines will be out in five years. These aren't traditional vaccines that prevent disease, but shots to shrink tumors and stop cancer from coming [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration last week announced it has sent warning letters to dozens of retailers selling fruit- and candy-flavored disposable e-cigarettes, including the current best-selling brand, Elf Bar. It's the latest attempt by regulators to crack down on illegal disposable vapes that have poured into stores in recent years. Last [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The first gene therapy for a deadly form of muscular dystrophy last week received preliminary federal government approval despite concerns from some government scientists about the treatment's ability to help boys with the inherited disease. The Food and Drug Administration approval provides a new option for some patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, [...]
The COVID-19 vaccines are on track for a big recipe change this fall. Today's vaccines still contain the original coronavirus strain, the one that started the pandemic — even though that was long ago supplanted by mutated versions as the virus rapidly evolves. Last week, the Food and Drug Administration's scientific advisers said the next [...]
The U.S. Department of Agriculture this week announced that it hopes to weed out false or misleading animal-welfare claims on meat and poultry packaging with new guidance and testing. The claims — such as "pasture-raised," "humanely raised," and "raised without antibiotics" — are increasingly popular with consumers and allow producers to charge a premium. Perdue [...]
WASHINGTON — Thick, smoky air from Canadian wildfires made for days of misery in New York City and across the U.S. Northeast last week. Yet for much of the rest of the world, breathing dangerously polluted air is an inescapable fact of life — and death. Almost the entire world breathes air that exceeds the [...]
COLUMBUS (AP) — At Cleveland's Urban Kutz Barbershop, customers can flip through magazines as they wait, or they can help themselves to drug screening tests left out in a box on a table with a somber message: "Your drugs could contain fentanyl. Please take free test strips." Owner Waverly Willis has given out strips for [...]
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A judge’s order that would eliminate requirements that health insurance plans include cost-free coverage of cancer screenings and various other types of preventive care should remain on hold while it is appealed, the Biden administration argued before an appellate panel earlier this week. It's the latest legal skirmish over mandates in [...]
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — With the rail industry relying on longer and longer trains to cut costs, the Biden administration is handing out $570 million in grants to help eliminate many railroad crossings in 32 states. The grants announced earlier this week will contribute to building bridges or underpasses at the sites of more than [...]
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — As a high school senior, Nick was blessed with a deadly accurate jump shot from the three-point range — something he was quick to monetize. He and his gym classmates not far from the Jersey Shore would compete to see who could make the most baskets, at $5 or $10 [...]