A bipartisan bill promised greater transparency into where prescription drugs are manufactured. Then a key provision was ...

The latest recall adds to growing safety concerns surrounding compounded glutathione, promoted as an injectable treatment for skin lightening and other unproven effects ...

Welcome to the FDA Recalls and Warnings Update, a series dedicated to keeping you informed about the latest medication recalls, manufacturing violations, and quality concerns affecting your ...

Andrew Kolodny, M.D., has treated enough people with opioid addiction to recognize withdrawal when he sees it: sweating, vomiting, agonizing pain. But increasingly, he says, patients are presenting ...

In a new paper in the New England Journal of Medicine, two medical experts argue that the FDA’s inspection-based system is failing to catch quality problems and propose five reforms aimed at ...

Experts explain why some generics can fail, how quality problems cause harm, and what patients can do to demand better accountability. An investigation by MedShadow found that certain types of opioid ...

Welcome to the FDA Side Effects Update. This series is designed to keep you informed about the latest safety advisories and newly documented side effects of your medications. In this installment, ...

Doctors say the growing popularity of supplement stacking has exposed more Americans to botanicals like ashwagandha that can damage the liver.

Marketed as a safer alternative to smoking, Zyn and other oral nicotine pouches are hooking a new generation of users, and may be causing side effects not yet fully understood ...

For millions of women, fatigue, brain fog and feeling “off” is often dismissed as stress, depression or aging. New guidance suggests low ferritin could be the overlooked culprit ...

The first time Marilynn Monroe took Adderall (a combination of amphetamine and dextroamphetamine) for her ADHD, she says she cried tears of joy. She was 15 years old. “The symptoms that were holding ...

On clear winter mornings, Steve Kaplan hikes up a nearby ski hill in California at Lake Tahoe, before the resort opens to ski back down as the sun crests the Sierra Nevada mountains. Kaplan, 68, is ...