Obesity can alter the action of many types of medications in ways affecting safety and/or efficacy, but this often isn’t mentioned in the labels. Experts in obesity and pharmacology are trying to ...

In an essay published in this week’s issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, a trio of medical researchers team up to propose a novel way to trim some of the nation’s ballooning health care ...

Federal law requires every prescription drug to include a document describing dosing guidelines, contraindications, results from clinical trials and safety considerations. But a spate of recent court ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is now requiring drug manufacturers to submit prescription drug labels electronically. The change, which went into effect last week, will keep the public better ...

Senators introduced legislation on Thursday that would require prescription drug labels to identify where the medication was made, adding momentum to a yearslong campaign to bring more transparency to ...

Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) on Thursday unveiled legislation that would require prescription drug labels to include information about where medications originated from. Scott’s bill, shown first to The ...

Meals and snacks with “GLP-1 Friendly” labels on the packaging are becoming more common in U.S. supermarkets as a growing number of Americans try obesity drugs like Wegovy and Zepbound to lose weight.

DOTHAN, Ala (WDHN) – Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.) joined four other U.S. senators to introduce the CLEAR LABELS Act Tuesday, an act that if passed would require pharmaceutical companies to label drugs ...