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Medicare announced Friday that it has selected 15 drugs, including the hugely popular medications Ozempic and Wegovy, used for diabetes and weight loss, as well as some blockbuster cancer medications and other drugs, for its second round of price talks. Together with the first 10 drugs that the Biden administration targeted for its Medicare Drug
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New report reveals rising cancer rates among women – CBS News Watch CBS News The American Cancer Society finds cancer rates are increasing in women, surpassing men in some cases. Dr. Celine Gounder, CBS News medical contributor, joins “CBS Mornings” to discuss these troubling trends and their implications. View CBS News In Be the first
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Companies say they are working to update their products to comply with the Food and Drug Administration’s decision Wednesday to ban the artificial food dye Red 3, after the agency said it was revoking the additive’s authorization over concerns it was causing cancer in rats. While the agency says that studies show the way Red
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About 328,000 smoke alarms sold nationwide and online by the Home Shopping Network — or as it now calls itself, HSN — are being recalled because the products can malfunction and fail to alert users of a fire, posing the risk of smoke inhalation or death, a federal safety agency said on Thursday. Three61, the
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A year after the American Academy of Pediatrics flagged what it described as “questionable marketing practices” by makers of formulas for older infants and toddlers, Abbott Laboratories is being sued over how it pitches such products. Abbott, a health care products conglomerate based in Illinois, is misleading parents and other caregivers about the nutritional value
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The Food and Drug Administration is moving to cut out addictive nicotine from cigarettes, according to a long-awaited proposed regulation released Wednesday. The rule aims to force the nearly 12% of Americans still using combustible tobacco products to switch to less dangerous alternatives, like vaping electronic cigarettes or using nicotine lozenges, or quit altogether while
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The Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday it had decided to revoke Red 3’s authorization to be added to foods, over concerns about how the food coloring dye has been linked to cancer in laboratory animals. FDA officials have telegraphed the decision for months. While the agency has long said that it did not think
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Consuming more than one drink a day results in a steep increase of the risk of premature death, a new federal review has concluded. The draft report was published Tuesday ahead of a major update to influential federal guidelines on how much alcohol Americans should drink. “In the United States, males and females have a
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The Food and Drug Administration released on Tuesday its long-awaited proposal to require food manufacturers to put some nutrition facts on the front of packages, in a bid to nudge Americans and food companies towards healthier diets in line with similar pushes in other countries. FDA’s new “nutrition info box” focuses on telling people whether
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Three Boar’s Head deli meat plants were cited for unsanitary conditions, including insects, mold, and “unidentified slime,” according to newly released federal records. The new findings suggest that sanitation problems were not limited to the company’s factory that was shut down last year following a deadly listeria outbreak. The inspection records, released in response to Freedom
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