The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services and is responsible for the safety regulation of most types of foods, dietary supplements, drugs, vaccines, biological medical products, blood products, medical devices, radiation-emitting devices, veterinary products, and cosmetics. The FDA also enforces section 361 of the Public Health Service Act and the associated regulations, including sanitation requirements on interstate travel as well as specific rules for control of disease on products ranging from pet turtles to semen donations for assisted reproductive medicine techniques.

From a purely libertarian perspective, Social Security would have to be curtailed -- probably not immediately but surely in stages. So would Medicare, Medicaid, Supplemental Security Income, unemployment insurance, compulsory laws about workers' compensation, most public safety laws, the Food and Drug Administration, the Federal Communications Comm

This bill restores the First Amendment rights of consumers to receive codifying the First Amendment standards used by federal courts to strike down the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) efforts to censor truthful health claims. The Health Freedom Protection Act also stops the Federal Trade Commissions (FTC) from censoring

Following consultation with the German Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices (BfArM), the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Health Canada, and other health authorities, Bayer announced today that it has elected to temporarily suspend worldwide marketing of Trasylol® (aprotinin injection) until final results from the Canadian BART..

Drugs giant Bristol-Meyers Squibb and a former subsidiary have been forced to pay more than half a billion dollars to settle settle federal and state investigations for promoting an anti-psychotic drug, Ablify, for uses that were not approved by the US Food and Drug Administration and providing illegal inducements to doctors.

NEW YORK (CNN) -- Every year, doctors write approximately 65 million prescriptions for drugs not yet approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the federal agency that regulates prescription drugs.