The lost month: How a failure to test blinded the U.S. to COVID-19
As the deadly virus from China spread with ferocity across the U.S. between late January and early March, large-scale testing of people who might have...
Juul knowingly sold at least 1 million tainted nicotine pods, former executive says
In a lawsuit, a former senior vice president claims that he was fired for raising safety concerns and that the company’s C.E.O. said customers are...
U.S. allows new smoking device that heats, not burns, tobacco
IQOS differs from e-cigarettes already on the market because it contains tobacco rather than liquid nicotine. But IQOS still delivers an amount of nicotine that...
FDA warns supplement makers to stop touting cures for Alzheimer’s, other diseases
The agency warned 12 dietary supplement companies to stop marketing such products for disease treatments, and called for tougher regulation of the $40 billon industry.
Altria, maker of Marlboro cigarettes, to pay nearly $13 billion for a stake in Juul
Altria, one of the world’s biggest tobacco companies, is spending nearly $13 billion to take a 35 percent stake in the vape company Juul. The...