President Donald Trump has said otherwise, but the nation’s leading public health experts told Congress Tuesday that they have never been told by the White House to slow down testing for Covid-19.
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In a blow to President Donald Trump’s longtime advocacy of an unproven drug to fight Covid-19, the Food and Drug Administration revoked the emergency use of hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for the virus that has now killed more Americans than World War I.
Read moreThe Animal Legal Defense Fund sued Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and the FDA, claiming they authorized use of the beta 3-adrenergic agonist/antagonist drug Experior on nearly 100 million cows without properly evaluating its effect on the cows or on human health.
Read moreThe American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists et al. sued the U.S. Food And Drug Administration et al. in federal court, claiming that “on the pretext of Covid-19 protection, the defendants unconstitutionally require the plaintiffs’ patients to visit their offices to receive a prescription of a common abortion drug, creating an undue burden.”
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Companies that sell tests for the novel coronavirus will need to prove the products work — a standard the Trump administration previously spurned.
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The Food and Drug Administration has given emergency-use approval to the antiviral drug remdesivir, allowing the product to reach the market without the typically required data supporting its safety and success.
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New evidence shows an experimental drug can effectively fight the respiratory disease caused by the new coronavirus, or at least reduce recovery time, scientists announced Wednesday.
Read moreThe Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office announced a lawsuit it filed against Santa Monica-based RootMD over the sale of bogus Covid-19 home test kits has been resolved, with the company agreeing to stop selling the kits without FDA approval and to pay civil penalties.
Read moreA federal court in New Jersey declined to remand a woman’s claims that FDA-approved contrast agents injected to enhance MRIs caused her Gadolinium Deposition Disease, which darkened her teeth and caused brain fog and memory loss. The court ruled the complaint does not solely rely on state law to allege the FDA colluded with Bayer to conceal safety information about the contract agents from the public.
Read moreR.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. et al. sued the U.S. FDA in federal court, claiming its rule demanding “graphic images … designed to frighten, shock and disgust adult cigarette consumers” are unconstitutional, compelled speech.”
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As hospitals and nursing homes desperately search for hand sanitizer during the coronavirus outbreak, federal regulators are preventing ethanol producers from providing millions of gallons of alcohol that could be transformed into germ-killing potions.
Read moreFrench diagnostics firm Biomerieux said Tuesday it had secured emergency approval from U.S. regulators for a coronavirus test that can produce results in 45 minutes, potentially offering a new tool for stemming the outbreak.
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Nearly two months since the U.S. confirmed its first case of the novel coronavirus, the White House said Thursday it is pushing to have a pre-existing antimalarial drug available broadly for treatment.
Read moreThe Food and Drug Administration has the authority to regulate drugs used in genetically modified organisms after a federal court ruling on a new type of salmon that reaches maturity faster.
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The D.C. Circuit on Tuesday extinguished a sweeping legal challenge from an e-cigarette company claiming the Food and Drug Administration has violated federal law in how it has chosen to regulate the company’s products.
Read moreThe Natural Resources Defense Council sued the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in federal court for refusing to ban use of perchlorate, a chemical used in rocket fuel, as an additive in food packaging; the NRDC says it can damage fetal and infant brain development.
Read morePresident Donald Trump said Wednesday he will push for the Food and Drug Administration to ban most flavored e-cigarettes, amid a government investigation into hundreds of cases of respiratory infections linked to vaping.
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