#Food and Drug Administration

Congress passes legislation to increase access to unapproved therapies for life-threatening diseases.

Experts warn that the plant, which is used to treat pain and symptoms of withdrawal from heroin, can be dangerous — and even deadly.

He’ll oversee the FDA, Medicare and Medicaid at a time when soaring drug prices remain a contentious political topic.

Puerto Rico’s main exports are medical devices and pharmaceuticals, including HIV and cancer drugs.

A formal petition filed with federal drug regulators last week seeks to prevent thousands of accidental overdose deaths every year.

It approved 12 weeks of Gilead Sciences’ Vosevi for the re-treatment of adults with all genotypes of HCV who do not have cirrhorsis.

The FDA has expanded approval of the direct-acting antiviral treatments Sovaldi and Harvoni for adolescents ages 12 and older.

The Food and Drug Administration has approved AbbVie’s once-daily Mavyret to treat all six major genotypes of hepatitis C virus (HCV).

The two-drug regimen can cure the virus in as little as eight weeks.

The agency has asked Endo Pharmaceuticals to stop selling Opana ER, a painkiller that’s been linked with outbreaks of HIV and hepatitis C.

The number of veterans treated for HCV by the Veterans Health Administration (VA) surged along with cure rates.

Using supplements can be risky for people with liver disease.

All the participants were cured of hep C. Although some saw their hep B viral load rise, other measures of the disease looked good.

This is the first approval of direct-acting antivirals for 12- to 17-year-olds.

Glecaprevir/pibrentasvir (G/P) cured high rates of those with genotype 1 who failed a previous hep C cure attempt in a Phase II study.

The agency is tasked with making sure our food and drugs are safe.