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FDA panel backs first-ever birth control pill sold without prescription: Federal health advisers are recommending that a decades-old birth control pill be sold ...
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FDA panel backs first-ever birth control pill sold without prescription
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FDA Advisers Recommend Over-The-Counter Birth Control Approval: The outside experts unanimously recommended the once-a-day pill become available without a ...
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FDA Advisers Recommend Over-The-Counter Birth Control Approval
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FDA panel backs first-ever birth control pill sold without prescription: Federal health advisers are recommending that a decades-old birth control pill be sold ...
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FDA panel backs first-ever birth control pill sold without prescription
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FDA Advisers Recommend Over-The-Counter Birth Control Approval: The outside experts unanimously recommended the once-a-day pill become available without a ...
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FDA Advisers Recommend Over-The-Counter Birth Control Approval
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After Panel Recommendation, Groups Say FDA Must Approve OTC Birth Control 'Without Delay'
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After Panel Recommendation, Groups Say FDA Must Approve OTC Birth Control ...
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FDA Advisers Vote in Favor of Making Popular Birth Control Pill Available Over the Counter
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FDA Advisers Vote in Favor of Making Popular Birth Control Pill Available ...
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The FDA Should Liberate This Birth Control Pill: Regulators should follow the advice of the agency’s expert panel and make Opill, an oral contraceptive ...
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The FDA Should Liberate This Birth Control Pill
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What To Know About Opill —The Birth Control Pill FDA Advisors Support Making Available Over-The-Counter
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What To Know About Opill —The Birth Control Pill FDA Advisors Support ...
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FDA Panel Backs Over-The-Counter Birth Control Pill: Perrigo Co.’s over-the-counter Opill gained a key recommendation from US regulatory advisers ...
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FDA Panel Backs Over-The-Counter Birth Control Pill
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FDA Panel Recommends the First Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pill: The birth control pill Opill may soon not require a prescription—a decision that would come ...
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FDA Panel Recommends the First Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pill
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FDA panel backs over-the-counter sales of birth control pill: The recommendation came at the close of a two-day meeting focused on whether women could safely and ...
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FDA panel backs over-the-counter sales of birth control pill
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FDA advisers vote unanimously in favor of OTC birth control pills: "We need to trust women."
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FDA advisers vote unanimously in favor of OTC birth control pills
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FDA advisers vote unanimously in favor of over-the-counter birth-control pill: The nonbinding vote recommends that the agency approve Perrigo’s oral ...
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FDA advisers vote unanimously in favor of over-the-counter birth-control ...
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Fears grow over Comstock Act, Justices Thomas, Alito: Abortion rights supporters are sounding the alarm that conservative Supreme Court justices want to use a ...
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Fears grow over Comstock Act, Justices Thomas, Alito
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Ketanji Brown Jackson Dunks on Alito During Abortion Hearing: He wanted to know if the FDA was infallible. She wondered the same about judges.
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Ketanji Brown Jackson Dunks on Alito During Abortion Hearing
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Elon Musk Takes Ketamine to Help Treat Depression: Does It Work?: In a recent interview, Elon Musk revealed he takes ketamine to help boost his mental health and ...
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Elon Musk Takes Ketamine to Help Treat Depression: Does It Work?
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FDA settles lawsuit over ivermectin content that doctors claimed harmed their practice
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FDA settles lawsuit over ivermectin content that doctors claimed harmed ...
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Experts Warn of Toxins in GM Corn Amid US-Mexico Trade Dispute: "The Mexican government is both wise and on solid ground in refusing to allow its people to ...
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Experts Warn of Toxins in GM Corn Amid US-Mexico Trade Dispute
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Wegovy is now covered by Medicare, but not for weight loss | Here & Now: Wegovy will be covered to prevent heart problems in people with obesity and heart ...
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Wegovy is now covered by Medicare, but not for weight loss | Here & Now
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First over-the-counter birth control pill now for sale online: Opill, an over-the-counter birth control pill, goes on sale online today. The pill is expected to ...
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First over-the-counter birth control pill now for sale online
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Hiltzik: The FDA and a bogus COVID treatment : Three right-wing doctors said the FDA's advice against taking ivermectin for COVID infringed on their rights ...
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Hiltzik: The FDA and a bogus COVID treatment
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FDA authorizes drug to boost COVID protection for immunocompromised patients: It will offer added protection to high-risk patients who may have weaker responses ...
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FDA authorizes drug to boost COVID protection for immunocompromised ...
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Elon Musk says ketamine can get you out of a 'negative frame of mind'. What does the research say?
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Elon Musk says ketamine can get you out of a 'negative frame of mind' ...
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Wegovy to be covered by US Medicare for heart disease patients: Heart patients insured under the U.S. Medicare program would be covered for Novo Nordisk's ...
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Wegovy to be covered by US Medicare for heart disease patients
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In Early Study, People on Weight Loss Pill Lost 13% of Their Body Weight: Novo Nordisk is testing a new weight-loss pill, called amycretin, that is said to lead ...
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In Early Study, People on Weight Loss Pill Lost 13% of Their Body Weight
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FDA approves new drug that may help stop and even reverse a rare, fatal condition that doctors call a ‘ticking time bomb’
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FDA approves new drug that may help stop and even reverse a rare ...
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Reproductive rights before Supreme Court again with abortion pill access at stake
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Reproductive rights before Supreme Court again with abortion pill access ...
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Trader Joe's nut recall: Select lots of cashews recalled for potential salmonella risk
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Trader Joe's nut recall: Select lots of cashews recalled for potential ...
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FDA Issues New Guidance for Early Alzheimer's Drug Development: The FDA embraces the use of biomarkers and surrogate endpoints in its most recent guidance on ...
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FDA Issues New Guidance for Early Alzheimer's Drug Development
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Medicare spending on Ozempic and similar diabetes drugs soars, study finds, and it could end up costing seniors
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Medicare spending on Ozempic and similar diabetes drugs soars, study finds ...
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Regeneron's blood cancer therapy faces setback as FDA raises trial concerns: Regeneron Pharmaceuticals said on Monday the U.S. FDA has declined approval for its ...
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Regeneron's blood cancer therapy faces setback as FDA raises trial ...
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Why 2024 may be the most consequential election for reproductive rights in 50 years
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Why 2024 may be the most consequential election for reproductive rights in ...
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6.9 million Americans have Alzheimer's disease: How to reduce your risk: Public and private spending to take care of Alzheimer's and dementia patients will ...
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6.9 million Americans have Alzheimer's disease: How to reduce your risk
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U.S. abortions reach recent high, with record number done via medication: The increase comes as the U.S. Supreme Court is considering whether to limit access to ...
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U.S. abortions reach recent high, with record number done via medication
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Biden administration announces focus on ‘flooding the zone’ with life-saving overdose reversal medicine
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Biden administration announces focus on ‘flooding the zone’ with ...
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AbbVie to bolster immunity illness drug pipeline with Landos deal: AbbVie will buy drug developer Landos Biopharma for up to $212 million as the Humira-maker ...
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AbbVie to bolster immunity illness drug pipeline with Landos deal
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61 Unexpected PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ Found in Food Packaging: A global study identified 61 PFAS chemicals in food packaging that are not authorized for use in ...
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61 Unexpected PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ Found in Food Packaging
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Manchin says Biden’s reelection is in jeopardy: At POLITICO’s Health Care Summit, the West Virginia Democrat took aim at the president on fentanyl overdoses and ...
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Manchin says Biden’s reelection is in jeopardy
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‘Cruel’: the supreme court could send one-time abortion deserts like Hawaii back in time
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‘Cruel’: the supreme court could send one-time abortion deserts like ...
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Deadly morel mushroom outbreak highlights big gaps in fungi knowledge: Prized morels are unpredictably and puzzlingly deadly, outbreak report shows.
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Deadly morel mushroom outbreak highlights big gaps in fungi knowledge
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First OTC birth control pill in the US now available in some stores: For the first time, women in the US can walk into a store and buy a supply of birth control ...
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First OTC birth control pill in the US now available in some stores
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The mifepristone case: abortion and the US supreme court meet again: On Tuesday the justices will hear oral arguments on a rightwing effort to roll back access ...
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The mifepristone case: abortion and the US supreme court meet again
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Top drug official raises alarm over Delta-8 THC use among 12th graders: A top drug official is urging Americans to pay attention to the kinds of cannabis ...
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Top drug official raises alarm over Delta-8 THC use among 12th graders
Quick Glance: The Dangers of an Unregulated High: Teens Using Marijuana Alternative Delta-8
  • A study reveals that teenagers are using delta-8 on a much wider scale than previously thought.

  • Delta-8 comes from the hemp of the cannabis plant and produces a less potent high than delta-9 THC.

  • Delta-8 is less regulated in many states than recreational marijuana and has no age restrictions for purchase.

  • Delta-8 is offered in various forms that may appeal to kids and is readily accessible in many locations.
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FDA approved a lifesaving therapy for children with a rare genetic disease. It might become the world’s most expensive drug
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FDA approved a lifesaving therapy for children with a rare genetic disease ...
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DNA test says it can predict opioid addiction risk. Skeptics aren’t so sure.: The Food and Drug Administration approved the test despite an agency committee of ...
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DNA test says it can predict opioid addiction risk. Skeptics aren’t so ...
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How Telehealth Widens Access to the Abortion Pill: Without telehealth, one in seven women would have to drive over 200 miles to the nearest provider
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How Telehealth Widens Access to the Abortion Pill
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'A great culture will be lost if the EV brigade gets its way': Opinion, comment and editorials of the day
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'A great culture will be lost if the EV brigade gets its way'
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The Anti-Abortion Movement’s Biggest Fear: The anti-abortion movement’s decadeslong efforts to target the abortion pill.
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The Anti-Abortion Movement’s Biggest Fear
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How rightwing groups used junk science to get an abortion case before the US supreme court
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How rightwing groups used junk science to get an abortion case before the ...
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Who pays when AI steers your doctor wrong?: The adoption of artificial intelligence in health care is reviving the debate over medical malpractice reform — with ...
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Who pays when AI steers your doctor wrong?
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TIL for Melanoma: What Are the Costs and Challenges?: A new FDA-approved treatment for melanoma has hit the market with a high price, and clinicians are working ...
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TIL for Melanoma: What Are the Costs and Challenges?
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FDA Delays Approval for Eli Lilly’s Experimental Alzheimer’s Treatment: FDA approval of Eli Lilly’s experimental Alzheimer’s drug donanemab will be delayed ...
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FDA Delays Approval for Eli Lilly’s Experimental Alzheimer’s Treatment