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Enlarge / A mother with her twin 6-year-old boys who have metachromatic leukodystrophy, a genetic disease that leaves them unable to move. Photo taken on September 3, 2004. In a medical triumph, US Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved a gene therapy that appears to trounce a rare, tragic disease that progressively steals children's…

Enlarge / Mature morel mushrooms in a greenhouse at an agriculture garden in Zhenbeibu Town of Xixia District of Yinchuan, northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. True morel mushrooms are widely considered a prized delicacy, often pricey and surely safe to eat. But these spongey, earthy forest gems have a mysterious dark side—one that, on…

Enlarge / Apple AirPods on display at the company's Fifth Avenue store in New York in Feb. 2024.Bing Guan/Bloomberg via Getty Images Apple's AirPods Pro are getting closer to becoming fully fledged hearing aids and marketed as such, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. The move could have a large impact on the hearing aid market,…

Six different ground cinnamon products sold at retailers including Save A Lot, Dollar Tree, and Family Dollar contain elevated levels of lead and should be recalled and thrown away immediately, the US Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday. The brands are La Fiesta, Marcum, MK, Swad, Supreme Tradition, and El Chilar, and the products are…

CVS and Walgreens will start selling mifepristone in some US states, Reuters reported.The move follows a 2023 FDA decision to allow certified pharmacies to sell the abortion drug.President Joe Biden, who has supported increased access to abortion, hailed the news. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you're on…

Living with food allergies can be a fraught existence. There is no cure, and the standard management is to be ever vigilant of everything you eat and have an emergency shot of epinephrine constantly handy in case an accidental ingestion leads to a swift, life-threatening reaction. But, for the millions of people in the US…

More than four years after SARS-CoV-2 made its global debut, the US Food and Drug Administration is still working to clear out the bogus and unproven products that flooded the market, claiming to prevent, treat, and cure COVID-19. The latest example is an alcohol-based sanitizer meant to be smeared inside the nostrils. According to its…

Enlarge / The three recalled pouches linked to lead poisonings. A spice grinder named Carlos Aguilera of Ecuador is the likely source of contaminated cinnamon containing extremely high levels of lead and chromium, which made its way into the apple cinnamon fruit pouches of US toddlers, according to an announcement by the Food and Drug…

Enlarge / Mifepristone (Mifeprex) and misoprostol, the two drugs used in a medication abortion, are seen at the Women's Reproductive Clinic, which provides legal medication abortion services, in Santa Teresa, New Mexico, on June 17, 2022. Scientific journal publisher Sage has retracted key abortion studies cited by anti-abortion groups in a legal case aiming to…

Enlarge / The exterior of the headquarters of biotechnology company Biogen in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Biotechnology company Biogen is abandoning Aduhelm, its questionable Alzheimer's drug that has floundered on the market since its scandal-plagued regulatory approval in 2021 and brow-raising pricing. On Wednesday, the company announced it had terminated its license for Aduhelm (aducanumab) and will…