Laurie McGinley

Most vaping-related lung injuries linked to marijuana products, CDC says

September 27, 2019 at 2:06 p.m.

State health officials said Friday that many patients sickened with mysterious lung injuries used black market marijuana vaping devices, offering the strongest clues so far into what might be making...

FDA rolls out vaping policy to make it harder for minors to buy flavored products

March 13, 2019 at 10:58 p.m.

The Food and Drug Administration issued a much-anticipated policy on Wednesday designed to restrict how and where flavored e-cigarettes are sold 鈥� an effort to combat what the agency's commissioner...

At her home in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Nancy Knoebel keeps mementos of her son, Danny Teichman, who died of a kratom overdose.

Kratom is hailed as a natural pain remedy, assailed as an addictive killer. The U.S. wants to treat it like heroin.

February 10, 2018 at 5:48 p.m.

Andrew Turner's years in the military left him suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, back pain and the effects of an injury that mangled his hand. "I was a broken...

Breast-cancer death rate drops almost 40 percent, saving 322,000 lives, study says

October 3, 2017 at 9:49 a.m.

Breast cancer death rates declined almost 40 percent between 1989 and 2015, averting 322,600 deaths, the American Cancer Society reported Tuesday.

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Senate passes “right to try” bill to help terminally ill patients get experimental drugs

August 3, 2017 at 5:42 p.m.

The Senate on Thursday passed by unanimous consent a measure designed to make it easier for terminally ill patients to get access to experimental treatments without oversight from the Food...

NAPA, CA - OCTOBER 9: The "legs" of a glass of wine reflect onto the side of a fermenting tank at Artesa Winery October 9, 2007 in Napa, California. Wineries in the Napa Valley are in the midst of harvesting their 2007 crop, a year that many are predicting will be a stellar vintage.

Just one alcoholic drink a day increases risk of breast cancer, study says

May 23, 2017 at 10:45 a.m.

Just one glass of wine or other alcoholic drink a day significantly raises the risk of breast cancer, while vigorous exercise such as running and bicycling reduces it, according to...

Jordan McLinn, who became the face of Indiana's "right to try" legislation, when then-Gov. Mike Pence signed it into law in 2015.

Fight over FDA and “right-to-try” laws moves from states to Congress

March 27, 2017 at 9:00 a.m.

Thirty-three states have passed laws which ostensibly allow patients to take experimental medicines outside of clinical trials and without FDA oversight as long as the therapies have undergone preliminary safety...

President Donald Trump speaks during a joint press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the White House last Friday.

Proposed federal budget would devastate cancer research, advocates say

March 18, 2017 at 12:04 a.m.

Cancer researchers and advocacy groups are denouncing President Donald Trump's proposed budget, warning that its 19 percent cut for the National Institutes of Health could cripple or kill former vice...

Vice President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, meet with Vice President-elect Mike Pence and his wife, Karen, following lunch at the Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C., November 16, 2016.

Biden to tackle cancer drug prices as part of post-White House ‘moonshot’ work

February 1, 2017 at 11:54 p.m.

Vice President Joe Biden, who led the Obama administration's "cancer moonshot" initiative, plans to start a "national conversation" about the high cost of cancer drugs as part of a nonprofit...

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