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The Food and Drug Administration has found hidden drug ingredients, potentially harmful to human health, in more than a dozen products shipped from abroad.

All 14 items in question have either been promoted for weight loss or sexual enhancement. The FDA said they were intercepted and identified during routine examinations of international mail shipments...

Another Chinese drugmaker has been written up by the FDA for manufacturing products with essentially no protections in place to assure they are safe and effective.

The most recent letter posted is for Concept Products, a Tianjin, China company that the FDA inspected over several days in August 2015. In the letter released this week,...

The judge's decision to allow the cases to proceed could also have wider implications for all device makers. In other news related to women's health, Colorado's Health Department finds that a Colorado Springs hospital did not properly disinfect vaginal ultrasound probes as well as other equipment.

Drinking water supplies serving more than six million Americans contain unsafe levels of a widely used class of industrial chemicals linked to potentially serious health problems, according to a new study from Harvard University researchers.

The chemicals — known as polyfluoroalkyl and perfluoroalkyl substances, or PFASs — have been used for decades in a range of industrial and commercial products, including non-stick...

A California state court has cleared the path for nearly a dozen lawsuits to proceed that alleged that pharmaceutical company Bayer's permanent birth control device, Essure, seriously injured patients. The ruling could have major implications for device manufacturers who, like Bayer, argue that federal regulation of their products means they shouldn't be accountable for...

 Amtrak has started settling lawsuits with victims of last year's deadly derailment in Philadelphia, and lawyers involved in the process say a strict confidentiality provision prevents them and their clients from talking about how they're doing or how much money they've received.

The railroad reached the first settlements last week, quietly resolving cases brought...

Boston Scientific Corp. has issued a worldwide voluntary recall for an older version of one of its most commercially promising devices, the Lotus transcatheter aortic heart valve replacement system, following the deaths of three patients.

The Aug. 1 recall affects about 250 Lotus valve systems that were manufactured before March 2016 but have not yet...

Influential U.S. magazine Consumer Reports urged the Justice Department to hike compensation to 475,000 owners of polluting Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE) diesel vehicles and allow owners who opt for a fix to reconsider.

In comments filed on Friday on the proposed agreement, the magazine said the buyback offer undervalues retail prices and urged the use of values...

On 9/11, Rupa Bhattacharyya was in an office near the White House watching TV as the second plane smashed into the World Trade Center. She walked nine miles home — too afraid to use the subway.

Now Bhattacharyya, the new special master of the federal 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund, says she’s eager to dole out...