Philip Morris International beats second-quarter earnings and revenue estimates and hikes its full-year forecast as its new tobacco products gain.
The Food and Drug Administration "stands ready" to start reviewing e-cigarettes amid a teen vaping "epidemic," acting Commissioner Ned Sharpless said Monday in a statement.
Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids slammed Juul's "fake apology," saying it's "a blatant attempt to deflect attention from the company's wrongdoing" in "creating the youth e-cigarette epidemic."
Following Alexander Acosta's resignation as secretary of Labor, President Donald Trump now has at least 10 high-level acting officials leading agencies in his administration.
CNBC's Carl Quintanilla interviewed Juul CEO Kevin Burns for a documentary, "Vaporized: America's E-cigarette Addiction."
The move ramps up pressure on companies like Juul Labs whose products have come under intense scrutiny for their popularity among teenagers.
July 12- A U.S. federal judge on Friday ordered the Food and Drug Administration to impose a 10- month deadline for the submission of e-cigarette applications, turning the screws on companies like Juul Labs Inc whose products have come under intense scrutiny for their popularity among teenagers. The FDA last month proposed the shorter timeline after the U.S....
July 12- A U.S. federal judge on Friday ordered the Food and Drug Administration to impose a 10- month deadline for the submission of e-cigarette applications, turning the screws on companies like Juul Labs Inc whose products have come under intense scrutiny for their popularity among teenagers. The FDA last month proposed the shorter timeline after the U.S....
More than 80% of adults strongly favor or somewhat agreed that tobacco companies should be forced to lower the amount of nicotine in cigarettes, according to a CDC study.
An unlicensed vaccine made by Merck was approved for use a week after the DRC declared the Ebola outbreak in August.
The CDC said evidence shows contact with pig ear dog treats is the likely source of the multi-state salmonella outbreak in humans.
The flawed assumption in the FDA's proposal is that young people primarily get e-cigarettes from convenience stores. Research shows it's just not true.
"Sadly, often over time, patients can exhaust all available treatments and still see their disease progress," said Richard Pazdur, director of the FDA's Oncology Center of Excellence. Karyopharm said it expects Xpovio to become commercially available in the United States by July 10. Multiple myeloma is estimated to cause nearly 13,000 deaths in the United...
Researchers say they've come one step closer to finding a potential cure for HIV after they successfully eliminated the virus in living mice for the first time in history.
"I don't think it is that feasible, quite frankly," says Dr. Scott Gottlieb. "It would crowd out competition in private insurance."
"This kind of revolving door influence-peddling smacks of corruption, and makes the American people rightly cynical and distrustful," Warren said in a July 1 letter to Gottlieb.
Former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb was recently elected to the board of Pfizer. He joins "Squawk Box" to discuss his decision.
Pfizer last week announced Gottlieb would join its board of directors — a job that paid a minimum of $335,000 in stock and cash in 2018.
The agency said the company's voluntary recall of its IntraClude intra-aortic occlusion device in May has now been classified by the FDA as Class I. Class I recall is the strictest form of recall issued by the FDA, where use of faulty devices may cause serious injury or death. The FDA said that recall affects more than 750 devices in the United States.
The agency said the company's voluntary recall of its IntraClude intra-aortic occlusion device in May has now been classified by the FDA as Class I. Class I recall is the strictest form of recall issued by the FDA, where use of faulty devices may cause serious injury or death. The FDA said that recall affects more than 750 devices in the United States.
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