Food and Drug Administration

WASHINGTON: Retail pharmacies will now be allowed to offer abortion pillsin the United States under a regulatory change made by the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday, the two companies that make the pills said on…

Some school systems around the US extended their holiday break Monday or switched back to online instruction because of the explosion in Covid-19 cases, while others pressed ahead with in-person classes amid a seemingly growing sense…

WASHINGTON: As the Covid-19 Omicron variant surges across the United States, top federal health officials are looking to add a negative test along with its five-day isolation restrictions for asymptomatic Americans who catch the…

WASHINGTON: United States pharmaceutical company Pfizer on Tuesday asked regulators to authorise its Covid pill after it was shown to cut hospitalisation or death by nearly 90% among newly infected high-risk patients. The move comes a…

The Covid-19 surge that is sending hospitalizations to all-time highs in parts of the South is also clobbering states like Hawaii and Oregon that were once seen as pandemic success stories. After months in which they kept cases and…

Pfizer is about to seek US authorization for a third dose of its Covid-19 vaccine, saying Thursday that another shot within 12 months could dramatically boost immunity and maybe help ward off the latest worrisome coronavirus mutant.…

WASHINGTON: A panel of experts convened by the top US health agency will hold a meeting Wednesday to review data surrounding more than 300 confirmed cases of heart muscle inflammation among adolescents and young adults after receiving…

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump was sicker with Covid-19 in October than publicly acknowledged at the time, with extremely depressed blood oxygen levels at one point and a lung problem associated with pneumonia caused by the…

WASHINGTON: President-elect Joe Biden has picked a former Food and Drug commissioner to lead vaccine science in his drive to put 100 million shots into the arms of Americans in his administration's first 100 days and stem the Covid-19…

BRISBANE, Australia: An Australian doctor who began inventing virus detection tools as a "hobby" is now helming a mammoth effort to ship the first non-prescription home Covid-19 tests cleared by US regulators. Sean Parsons is the founder…