Food and Drug Administration

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has for the first time approved a video game for treating attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children

Federal health officials are warning about potential accuracy problems with a rapid test for COVID-19 made by Abbott Laboratories.

At a White House coronavirus task force briefing, Dr. Stephen Hahn, commissioner of food and drugs at the FDA, showed a new point-of-care coronavirus test that can give results in about 5 minutes.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Federal Trade Commission clamped down on companies the government says are selling fraudulent COVID-19 products. The agencies sent warning letters Monday to seven companies: Vital Silver, Quinessence Aromatherapy Ltd., Xephyr, LLC doing business as N-Ergetics, GuruNanda, LLC, Vivify Holistic Clinic, Herbal Amy LLC, and The Jim Bakker Show. “The FDA considers the sale and promotion of fraudulent...

Jim McGowan from the Financial Planning Association of Philadelphia joins NBC10’s Lucy Bustamante to discuss how coronavirus is impacting the global economy.

According to a doctor, another person ate a single package of the noodles and suffered a 10-day bout of vomiting and nausea — and needed surgery that required using a drill to break up the noodles after forming a gastric obstruction.

The Food and Drug Administration is investigating a potential link between certain brands of dog food, including Blue Buffalo, Merrick and Rachael Ray Nutrish, and an increased risk of heart disease in pets. The agency is looking into more than 500 cases of canine heart disease, identifying the brands of dog food that have been most frequently fed to pets...

Medtronic has recalled some of its insulin pumps after one death and more than 2,000 injuries were reported, according to a Wednesday announcement from the Food and Drug Administration. Certain Medtronic MiniMed 600 Series pumps were administering incorrect insulin doses to diabetes patients.

In October 2018, little Lucas Parker shared a salad from a pizza place with his father during a family vacation to California, NBC News reports. Fifteen months later, the once-rambunctious 3-year-old is blind, can barely move and needs constant care. “After everything he’s been through and everything’s that happened in life, there’s one thing I don’t do,” said his...

A drug that curbs delusions in Parkinson’s patients did the same for people with Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia in a study that was stopped early because the benefit seemed clear.

Ready-to-eat sushi, salads and other refrigerated products sold at Trader Joe’s stores, including in the Philly area, are being recalled because they may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.

One family experienced first-hand a problem that doctors say is too common and worsening: shortages of childhood cancer drugs. Doctors, meanwhile, find themselves having to ration life-saving drugs.

Owners of anxious dogs will soon have a generic option for calming pets with separation anxiety, NBC News reported. On Wednesday, the Food and Drug Administration announced the approval of clomipramine hydrochloride, a generic for the brand name drug Clomicalm, for dogs ages 6 months and up who have fears or underlying anxiety about being left alone. It is meant...

When e-cigarette market leader Juul removed its popular sweet flavors such as mango and creme from stores last year, co-founder Adam Bowen said publicly the company was willing to take a cut in sales to “do the right thing and prevent underage use.” The conversation at Juul’s San Francisco headquarters, though, was far different.

When e-cigarette market leader Juul removed its popular sweet flavors such as mango and creme from stores last year, co-founder Adam Bowen said publicly the company was willing to take a cut in sales to “do the right thing and prevent underage use.” The conversation at Juul’s San Francisco headquarters, though, was far different.

U.S. health officials want women getting breast implants to receive stronger warnings and more details about the possible risks and complications. The Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday that manufacturers should add a warning highlighted by a box — the most serious type — to the information given to women considering implants. The agency is also recommending patients complete a...

Juul is immediately suspending sales of it popular fruity e-cigarette flavors ahead of a Trump administration policy that is expected to remove all flavored e-cigarettes from the market, the company announced Thursday. Juul last year stopped selling its flavored e-cigarettes in retail stores amid pressure from the Food and Drug Administration. Customers could only get the flavors — creme, mango,...

The thousands of shops that sprang up in cities and towns across the country over the past decade to sell vaping products have seen a stunning reversal of fortune, with their sales plunging in just two months amid news reports that vaping has sickened nearly 1,300 people and killed 26. People who turned to vaping products to help them quit...

E-cigarette vapor causes lung cancer and potentially bladder cancer in mice, damaging their DNA and leading researchers at New York University to conclude that vaping is likely “very harmful” to humans as well. “It’s foreseeable that if you smoke e-cigarettes, all kinds of disease comes out” over time, Moon-Shong Tang, the study’s lead researcher, said in an interview. “Long term,...

Only two years ago, electronic cigarettes were viewed as a small industry with big potential to improve public health by offering a path to steer millions of smokers away from deadly cigarettes. That promise led U.S. regulators to take a hands-off approach to e-cigarette makers, including a Silicon Valley startup named Juul Labs, which was being praised for creating “the...