food and drug administration

Nearly 400,000 women receive breast implants each year, and many are picking silicone material. But in a recent report, the Food and Drug Administration warned that many women experience complications from silicone — from a hardening of the skin around the implant to ruptures, pain and infection.

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The Food and Drug Administration is meeting Wednesday and Thursday to examine whether artificial food dyes cause hyperactivity in children.

Recent studies have drawn this link, causing some experts to call on the FDA to ban the dyes — or at least require a warning label.

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As manufacturers start to roll out vaccines against the new H1N1 swine flu, the Food and Drug Administration will only have weeks to decide whether they're safe.

It's a high-pressure situation, complicated by the memory of a flu-vaccine scare in 1976, and by a new ingredient that some manufacturers are experimenting with.

A bill aimed at cracking down on tobacco use among adults and children is a step away from the president's desk.

The Senate passed a bill Thursday that would give the Food and Drug Administration broad powers to regulate the industry.

The House could vote as early as Friday.

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