According to the Food and Drug Administration’s recent recommendations, the food industry, restaurants, and other food service operators should be “encouraged” to help Americans reduce their daily sodium intake to[…]
The US government is about to finalize a set of instructions intended to prevent medical devices that are responsible for the transmission of “superbugs”, leading to the potentially fatal outbreak[…]
US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Dr. Margaret Hamburg is going to step down from her post after giving almost six years of service that included overseeing new public[…]
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday gave green signal to the first set of glucose-monitoring medical applications that can assist sharing of data in real time, both automatically[…]
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has finally given green signal to NPS Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NPSP) for its drug Natpara to treat a severe hormone condition called hypoparathyroidism. According[…]
EnteroMedics Inc on Wednesday won approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its new device to treat obesity, the first since 2007, sending the company’s share up[…]
Consumer Goods & Biopharma Sector · Health & Lifestyle
Drug makers Sanofi and Regeneron have filed an application with the European Medicines Agency (EMA) seeking approval for their new drug alirocumab for lowering ‘bad’ cholesterol levels. The new cholesterol-lowering[…]
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given green signal to drug Savaysa (edoxaban) to lower the risk of stroke and systemic embolism as well as prevent the[…]
The US health regulator Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has denied approval to generic drug maker Actavis Plc for its hypertension treatment comprising a fixed-dose combination of valsartan and nebivolol.[…]
In a major development, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Tuesday announced removal of ban on the gay or homosexual community from donating blood. The federal health body[…]