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Trump promises to deregulate the FDA.

The FDA approved an injectable for hypotension in surgical settings.

The FDA approved using a schizophrenia drug for adolescents.

The FDA gave a gene therapy for bleeding in hemophilia B breakthrough status.

Ertugliflozin provided effective glycemic control and weight loss in diabetes.

Endotracheal intubation may do more harm than good.

Drugs won't work if patients don't take them.

A US District Court Judge has ruled against a $37 billion health plan merger.

Relapses in patients taking natlizumab affected their disabilities in the short term, but not over a longer period.

A new test shows how well patients with hepatitis B respond to drugs.

Democrats charge HHS nominee Tom Price with ethics breaches.

Treating multiple sclerosis early pays off in higher patient incomes.

Trump repeats his pledges: new health plan, competitive bids on Medicare drugs.

It was no surprise that New Orleans' Hurricane Katrina took an immediate toll on residents' health when it hit 11 years ago. A new study showed it also led (or forced) many people to stop taking care of themselves, resulting in an increase in heart attacks seen 10 years out.

After a review of existing studies, the FDA today sent out a warning that surgery lasting three hours or more poses a threat of brain or other neurological damage in babies, fetuses, and toddlers.

President-Elect Donald Trump plans to allow Medicare to bid on drugs.

Donald Trump believes vaccines cause autism.

Public health initiatives backed by federal spending have dramatically reduced end-stage renal disease related to diabetes in Native Americans.

Should the VA let nurse-anesthetists practice without direct physician supervision?

Could cyber-terorrists turn a cardiac pacemaker into a weapon? It sounded like fiction until the FDA and a device maker today announced that they had fixed a popular device precisely to prevent that from happening.

In a dramatic decision on a long-running patent dispute over alirocumab vs. evolocumab, a federal court judge ruled that Amgen's patents were violated and that rivals Sanofi/Regeneron can no longer distribute their product.

The tendency of the brain to shrink with age may be reversed with a Mediterranean-style diet, UK researchers found.

Children born to obese parents may be facing developmental delays, a study from the National Institutes of Health has found. The study looked at obese fathers as well as mothers.

In a formal letter to Congress, the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and American College of Physicians urged Congress to fight the GOP plans to dismantle the Affordable Care Act.

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is notifying doctors that LabCorp has reported false positive results from the ZIKV Detect test, made by InBios International. .

An experimental vaccine is showing 100% effectiveness against the Ebola virus, according to results of a trial in Guinea published in The Lancet.

Tonix pharmaceutical has received a breakthrough therapy designation for a drug candidate meant to treat post-traumatic stress disorder.

Female physicians are generally paid less for doing the same work as their male counterparts. A new Harvard study suggest that women are actually better doctors—at least in caring for hospitalized elderly patients.

The US Food and Drug Administration approved dropping black box warning on two smoking cessation aids.