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...
Why Trump’s tariffs could raise the cost of a hip replacement
The proposed tariffs have unsettled the medical-device and supply industries, given that a growing number of products and their components are now manufactured in China.
Feds’ failure to study gun violence is challenged after Florida shootings
The government largely abandoned the study of gun violence as a public-health issue in the mid-1990s. Now, lawmakers and gun-control experts have demanded that the...