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US Federal health officials say they have found cancer-causing ingredients in electronic cigarettes, despite manufacturers’ claims the products are safer than tobacco cigarettes. The Food and Drug A...

Federal health officials said Wednesday they have found cancer-causing ingredients in electronic cigarettes, despite manufacturers' claims the products are safer than tobacco cigarettes.

The Denver-based King Soopers grocery chain is recalling nearly a half million-pounds of ground beef products that might be linked to 14 cases of salmonella in Colorado

-(Dow Jones)- Federal regulators, in an early move against electronic cigarettes, on Wednesday said the battery-powered, often candy- flavored products contain toxic impurities and can be dangerous....

The Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday that an analysis of leading brands of electronic cigarettes, a new type of 'smokeless' nicotine product, detected carcinogens and a chemical used in antifreeze that is toxic to humans.

A reporter looks at the reasons behind people's obsession with aging-related beauty products, including how the beauty industry itself helps fuel the belief that 'youth in a jar' is possible.

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W. L. Gore & Associates (Gore) today announced that it has received approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market the most up-to-date design for the GORE VIABAHN® Endoprosthesis for device diameters 9 - 13 mm. The next generation of the large diameter product enables streamlined deployment on the same 0.035' guidewire and TIP to HUB direction as the 5 - 8 mm sizes.

A major distributor of e-cigarettes has accused critics of the new product of 'libel' and 'slander,' possibly in a effort to discourage efforts to regulate them, but the FDA is now taking action to protect the public, says public interest law professor John Banzhaf of Action on smoking and Health (ASH), who has petitioned the FDA to regulate the products. Indeed, the federal agency is moving to regulate e-cigarettes - devices which resemble cigarettes but which, instead of burning tobacco, emit a cloud of nicotine which is inhaled (and then exhaled) by the user. Just as an earlier ASH legal petition helped prompt the FDA to regulate cigarettes containing nicotine, and also an earlier nicotine-emitting cigarette-like device known as 'Favor,' a new ASH legal petition may be playing a significant role, and does help explain the FDA's action. Preliminary regulatory steps are already being taken. For example, the FDA has begun listing the product on its 'Import Alert' as 'misbranding' and

The FDA today warned Americans not to use electronic cigarettes -- but did not ban the sale of the smoke-free devices. E-cigarettes and similar products are sold online and in scores of mall kiosks across the U.S. They deliver nicotine in a puff of hot gas that feels like smoke; nicotine-free versions are also sold. Now the FDA has tested two of the devices: the smoking Everywhere and Njoy products. 'The products we reviewed so far we found to be illegal,' attorney Michael Levy, director of the FDA's office of compliance in the division of drug evaluation and research, said today during an FDA news conference. But the FDA has not banned them because 'There is pending litigation on the issue of FDA's jurisdiction over e-cigarettes,' Levy said. Why call a news conference? 'We felt it important that while there is litigation and we are considering options, there is no reason to be confused about FDA's position on this issue,' Joshua Sharfstein, MD, FDA principal deputy commissioner,