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- 10 Facts about What FDA Does and Does Not Approve Is It Really &quot;FDA Approved&quot;? Maybe you’ve seen these words on a company’s website or in a commercial promoting a product or treatment. Here are some facts about products that are, and aren’t, FDA approved.
- Drugs Consumer articles about over-the-counter and prescription drugs.
- Lupus Therapies Continue to Evolve Each year, as many as 16,000 people in the U.S. are diagnosed with lupus, an autoimmune disease that can be fatal. The FDA has funded several studies related to lupus and approved new therapies to help people with the disease live longer and better lives.
- Have You Given Blood Lately? The FDA works to ensure the safety of millions of units of blood and blood components donated in the U.S. each year. Learn how the FDA helps safeguard the blood supply and how you can donate blood.
- Vaccines, Blood & Biologics From blood to vaccines, FDA protects and advances the public health by ensuring that biological products are safe, effective, and available to those who need them. Read these Consumer Updates to learn more.
- Dietary Supplements Dietary supplements are regulated by the FDA as food, not as drugs. However, many dietary supplements contain ingredients that have strong biological effects which may conflict with a medicine you are taking or a medical condition you may have. Products containing hidden drugs are also sometimes fal
- Know Your Treatment Options for COVID-19 Patients today have several treatment options to prevent hospitalization and other serious complications of COVID-19. The FDA has approved drug treatments for COVID-19 and has authorized others for emergency use.
- 5 Tips for Traveling to the U.S. With Medications Can you bring foreign drugs into the U.S.? Or refill a foreign prescription at a U.S. pharmacy? The U.S. Food and Drug Administration can help you understand the rules for flying with medications or shipping them from overseas.
- Laser Toys: How to Keep Kids Safe When operated unsafely, or without certain controls, the highly-concentrated light from laser pointers and laser toys can be dangerous, causing serious eye injuries and even blindness. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is reminding consumers how to stay safe.
- Tips for Women to Prevent Heart Disease More women die from heart disease than from any other cause. But women can take action to decrease their risk. The FDA offers many resources to help educate women of all ages about the safe use of FDA-approved drugs and devices for the treatment and prevention of heart disease.
- Beware of Illegally Marketed Diabetes Treatments, Fraudulent Pharmacies Consumers with diabetes risk serious health complications by choosing illegally marketed diabetes products, which also may be dangerous in and of themselves. Learn about the unapproved products found in the marketplace and what the FDA is doing to counter diabetes products that violate federal law.
- Keep Your Dogs and Cats Safe From Holiday Hazards From tinsel to table scraps, holiday hazards for pets abound. Here are some tips to help you keep them safe.
- Mammography: What You Need to Know Mammograms are still the best tool for breast cancer screening. Learn how the FDA certifies facilities that perform mammograms, and clears and approve mammography devices to help keep you safe.
- Detección de cáncer de mama: el termograma no sustituye a la mamografía La termografía no debe utilizarse en lugar de la mamografía, la cual sigue siendo la herramienta más eficaz para detectar el cáncer de mama.
- Food Timely articles and multimedia content about food and food-safety.
- Animal & Veterinary Consumer articles from FDA about animal health and veterinary medicine.
- Flour Is a Raw Food and Other Safety Facts Eating raw (uncooked) flour, dough or batter could make you sick. Most flour is raw and is not treated to kill germs. Never eat or taste raw flour, dough or batter.
- Whole Genome Sequencing: Cracking the Genetic Code for Foodborne Illness Increasingly, FDA has used whole genome sequencing to support investigations of foodborne illness outbreaks. Industry is also starting to use whole genome sequencing to monitor food manufacturing for bacteria and take steps to prevent potential outbreaks.
- What's in a Name? What Every Consumer Should Know About Foods and Flavors Is flavor labeling on food packages misleading? FDA helps ensure that it isn&#039;t.
- Don't Double Up on Acetaminophen More than 600 medications, both prescription and over-the-counter (OTC), contain the active ingredient acetaminophen to help relieve pain and reduce fever. Taken carefully and correctly, these medicines can be safe and effective. But taking too much acetaminophen can lead to severe liver damage.