Fiber that naturally occurs in whole foods provides other nutrients like vitamins, minerals, plant compounds, and water, Petitpain said. However, "fake" or isolated fibers are extracted from plants or ...

Supplements are not reviewed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration before they are sold The FDA may allow warning labels to appear just once per package rather than after every health claim Some ...

The FDA approved a label change for Pfizer’s birth control injection Depo-Provera on Dec. 13, adding a warning about the risk of meningioma — a brain tumor — to two versions of the drug. The update ...

Ed Silverman, a senior writer and Pharmalot columnist at STAT, has been covering the pharmaceutical industry for nearly three decades. He is also the author of the morning Pharmalittle newsletter and ...

When the FDA reworked the prescribing information for Sarepta Therapeutics' Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) gene therapy Elevidys earlier this month, the company touted a plan to study a regimen ...

ATLANTA -- Front-of-package food labels that provide an overall rating of product healthfulness were most effective in getting consumers to shop for healthy products in an online grocery, according to ...

Understanding a Nutrition Facts label is one of the best ways to make smarter food choices. Each section of the label tells you something important about what’s in your food and how it fits into a ...

Shares of Rhythm Pharmaceuticals (RYTM) fell in the premarket on Friday after the U.S. FDA extended the review period for a marketing application targeting a potential label expansion for its obesity ...

What leads people to make better food choices? Is it price, availability, health attributes of the food or something else? This is the million-dollar question. The most common statement I hear from my ...

Researchers analyzing nearly 600 grocery items found that flashy front-label claims—like “heart healthy” or “keto-friendly,” often fail to match real nutrition, urging doctors and shoppers to focus on ...