Trump DOESN’T believe FDA as it issues another hydroxy warning

Donald Trump says he DOESN’T believe FDA as it issues another warning on hydroxy claiming he has ‘heard some great reports’ President Trump said Monday that he’s ‘heard some great reports’ about the drug hydroxychloroquine treating the coronavirus  Trump made the comments hours after the Food and Drug Administration revoked its emergency use authorization of … Read more

Shares soar for company as FDA approves application for trial of weed-derived coronavirus drug

Shares for a cannabis company spiked 324% after the FDA said it could apply to run a clinical trial of its marijuana-derived drug to treat coronavirus patients FSD Pharma received approval from the FDA to apply to run a clinical trial of a cannabis-derived drug on coronavirus patients The drug mimics molecules naturally found in marijuana … Read more

Lawmakers urge FDA to pull ‘Puff Bar’ e-cigarettes  from the market

Puff Bar e-cigarettes have taken advantage of the pandemic to market their single use vapes to teenagers, lawmakers claim.  Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy is urging the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to demand Puff Bars pull its products from the market.  The company, which sells the … Read more

FDA announces new food labels that have nutritional information for eating the whole package

FDA’s new nutritional labels require food packaging to say how many calories, fats, sugars and carbs are in a ‘serving’ AND the whole container The new food labels will have dual columns, one will nutritional information for one serving and another for the whole packages Manufacturers will also be required to include added sugars on the … Read more

FDA gives emergency approval to Roche’s coronavirus antibody blood test

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued emergency use approval to Swiss drug maker Roche Holding AG for an antibody test to help determine if people have ever been infected with the coronavirus. Roche, which also makes molecular tests to identify active COVID-19 infections, said its antibody test has a specificity rate of 99.8 … Read more

FDA has APPROVED experimental drug Remdesivir for emergency use for coronavirus patients

President Donald Trump announced Friday that the FDA has approved the experimental drug remdesivir for emergency use in hospitalized coronavirus patients.  It is the first drug shown to help fight the disease, which has killed more than 64,000 people in the United States.  Gilead’s chief executive officer Daniel O’Day, whose company produces remdesivir joined President Trump, … Read more

FDA may approve emergency use authorization of Ebola drug remdesivir TODAY

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) may announce its decision allowing emergency use authorization of an antiviral drug to treat coronavirus patients as early as Wednesday. It comes after studies showed that remdesivir, made by California-based Gilead Sciences, helped patients go from relying on oxygen to leaving hospital in two weeks, reported The New … Read more

Women on female Viagra can now drink alcohol, FDA declares

Women who use the female libido pill, Addyi, no longer need to avoid alcohol, regulators have declared. Previously, Addyi came with a warning to stop drinking two hours before taking the pill, or to skip the pill if they’d had a few drinks. But on Thursday, the US Food and Drug Administration found studies conducted … Read more

FDA adds 1,500 hand sanitizer manufacturers to meet demand amid the pandemic

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has added hundreds of hand sanitizer manufacturers to meet demand amid the coronavirus pandemic, but is warning they make the products less palatable in a bid to discourage people from drinking the liquid. More than 1,500 new makers of alcohol-based hand sanitizers have registered with the agency to … Read more

FDA expert warns the US could run out of researchers to run coronavirus drug trials

There are more than 70 trials for treatments for coronavirus happening in the US, and the race for a therapeutic leave labs shorthanded of researchers, a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) official has said.  ‘Although we may not run out of patients, unfortunately, we may run out of research personnel and time availability to do … Read more