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The Texas judge who previously halted approval of the nation’s most common method of abortion ruled Thursday that three ...

Three Republican-led states will be allowed to move forward with a lawsuit to restrict access to mifepristone, a Texas ...

Missouri introduces a new rule to safeguard mail-order medications from extreme temperatures, addressing concerns about ...

The FDA is considering reducing the maximum concentration of nicotine in cigarettes, making them essentially nonaddictive.

Now that most of the snow and ice has been cleared from the roads, hazardous potholes have formed below.

Amid concerns the additive causes cancer, the FDA is implementing a ban on a popular food dye used in candy and cakes.

Red 3 is banned for food use in Europe, Australia and New Zealand except in certain kinds of cherries. The dye will be banned ...

Kansas does not ... that establishes standards for drug handling, and “the board will continue to monitor circumstances and ...