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.

Pharmaceutical and biotechnology major Wockhardt announced the launch of Cetirizine tablets in the USA. Wockhardt received the ANDA from the United States Food & Drug Administration (US FDA) for marketing the tablets containing 5mg and 10mg Cetirizine Hydrochloride, which is used for treating various forms of allergy

Merck & Co, in their quest to make a name in the pharmaceutical industry has produced a new AIDS drug that has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration, USA. Could this be the much improved version of the earlier AIDS drug that was tested by Africans in Africa?

A Food and Drug Administration panel on Tuesday will review reports of abnormal behavior and other brain effects in more than 1,800 children who had taken the flu medicine Tamiflu since its approval in 1999, including 55 in the USA.

The Food and Drug Administration (USA) has approved Lamisil for the treatment of tinea capitis (scalp ringworm) for children aged 4 or more. The medication is presented in oral granules. Children are most susceptible to tinea capitis - an infected patient can experience severe itching, dandruff and bald patches

Bayer Schering Pharma AG, Germany, and Genzyme Corp., USA, announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a supplemental Biologics License Application (sBLA) for Campath® (alemtuzumab) and granted regular approval for single-agent Campath for the treatment of B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (B-CLL).