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FDA Approves First Ever Drug Treatment for Postpartum Depression
The treatment, which received “breakthrough” FDA status during its early trials, was shown to relieve depressive symptoms in a matter of hours.
FDA Approves First Depression Treatment in Decades: A Nasal Spray Doctors Can Administer for Quick Relief
Though the treatment has received its fair share of wariness, it could provide immediate relief for patients experience treatment-resistant depression.
FDA Approves World’s First Device That Could Save Thousands of Preemies From Common Heart Condition
This is the world's first device that has been designed to save thousands of premature babies from a common heart problem.
FDA Grants ‘Breakthrough’ Status to Psilocybin Mushroom Therapy for Untreatable Depression
The US Food and Drug Administration has just granted a “Breakthrough Therapy” designation to a treatment that uses psychedelic mushrooms as a therapy for...
La FDA Aprueba el Tratamiento Preventivo Mensual para la Migraña Sin Mayores Efectos Secundarios
La Administración de Comida y Medicamentos de Estados Unidos (FDA en inglés) ha aprobado un nuevo tratamiento preventivo para la migraña en adultos.
El tratamiento...
FDA Approves Once-Monthly Preventative Migraine Treatment With No Major Side Effects
The treatment, which has been shown to dramatically reduce episodic and chronic migraines, is being hailed as “a huge deal” by researchers.
FDA Approves First Ever Drug Designed Exclusively to Prevent Migraines
Patients in the clinical trials for the drug said that they did not even experience any more side effects than patients in the placebo group.
Drug With 93% Success Rate for Pediatric Cancers Gets FDA Breakthrough Status
The drug, which had no severe side effects, showed “unprecedented” success with certain pediatric tumors, as well as several adult forms of cancer.
New Cancer Drug is So Effective Against Tumors, the FDA Approved It Immediately
This groundbreaking new drug for cancer treatment was immediately approved by the FDA in light of its revolutionary effects on tumors across the body.
The...
FDA Finally Bans Antibacterial Soaps Containing Triclosan and 18 Other Chemicals
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration Friday issued a final rule that will ban many commonly used consumer antiseptic soaps.
Companies will no longer be...
Bold Trials to Kill Vicious Cancer Type is So Successful, FDA Will Fast Track to Patients
A bold cancer therapy that uses the polio virus to attack a form of brain cancer has been so successful, it’s been given “breakthrough...
ReWalk Device Approved by FDA Helps Paraplegics to Walk
A robotic exoskeleton that allows some people with spinal cord injuries to walk upright has been approved by the U.S. Federal Drug Administration and...
FDA Approves First Simple DNA Screening Test for Colorectal Cancer
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration this week approved Cologuard, the first stool-based colorectal screening test that detects the presence of blood and DNA mutations...
FDA Approves Drug That Reverses Heroin Overdoses
After steadily increasing for more than a decade, drug overdose deaths, driven largely by pain prescription drugs like oxicodone, are now the leading cause...
FDA to Crack Down on Antibiotics in Meat
The Food and Drug Administration is taking steps toward phasing out the use of some antibiotics in animals processed for meat in the US,...
FDA Approves Eye Implant That Restores Vision in Some Blind Patients
People who have lost their sight due to retinitis pigmentosa could benefit from government approval this week for an implantable device that takes the...
FDA Connects Desperate Patients With Experimental Drugs
A little-known FDA program called "compassionate use" is giving seriously ill people a path to obtaining drugs that are still in testing.
Last year, after...
Human Trials for HIV Vaccines Approved by FDA
A vaccine that may prevent HIV has been given the green light by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to begin clinical trials in...
Does Food Dye Make Kids Hyperactive? FDA Panel Investigates Evidence
Doctors and consumer advocates have long argued over whether hyperactivity might be tied to certain dyes and additives used in processed foods. In a...
FDA OKs Tiny Telescope Cure For Elderly Blindness
An implantable device to treat macular degeneration, a common cause of blindness in the elderly, has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration...