The Food and Drug Administration plans to drop its longtime standard of requiring two rigorous studies for new drug approvals.

Scientists are seeing signals that COVID-19′s alarming omicron wave may have peaked in Britain and is about to do the same in the U.S., at which point cases may start dropping off dramatically.

President Joe Biden is nominating former Food and Drug Administration commissioner Dr. Robert Califf to again lead the powerful regulatory agency.

The Food and Drug Administration has paved the way for children ages 5 to 11 to get Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine.

U.S. health regulators have authorized an extra dose of the Pfizer or Moderna COVID-19 vaccines in people with weakened immune systems to better protect them from the virus.

The acting head of the Food and Drug Administration is calling for a government investigation into highly unusual contacts between her agency’s drug reviewers and the maker of a controversial new Alzheimer’s drug.

Children ages 12 and older can now get COVID-19 vaccines in the U.S., offering parents and schools a chance to relax their pandemic precautions.

U.S. health regulators are pledging again to try to ban menthol cigarettes.

For families bringing in their older teens on Friday at the Wonderland of the Americas vaccination site, the idea of being able to get the shots for their younger children was a welcome one.

Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte has issued an executive order banning the development or use of vaccine passports in Montana.

Experts and the FDA stress the sun's link to cancer and aging is real, so don't abandon sun protection. The new study reevaluated three of the original four (avobenzone, oxybenzone and octocrylene) and added three additional sunscreen chemicals -- homosalate, octisalate, and octinoxate. After initial absorption, the concentration of the six chemicals in the blood increased each day of application, and remained above FDA safety levels at day seven, well after application had ended. Sun dangersOne in five Americans will develop skin cancer by the age of 70, the Skin Cancer Foundation says. In the 2019 study, "oxybenzone was absorbed into the body at about 50 to 100 times higher concentration" than the others tested, Andrews said.