Food and Drug Administration

• Justice Dept. to appeal Plan B court ruling

  By Staff Writer  |  May 2, 2013

  Critics want to know what age has to do with it.

• In meat tests, more data tying human illness to farm antibiotics

  By Staff Writer  |  April 18, 2013

  The antibiotics used to protect livestock could be making humans more susceptible to illnesses.

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  Appeals court backs carrier in off-label drug use case

  By Allison Bell  |  April 4, 2013

  A three-judge panel upholds a district court ruling after reviewing the evidence from scratch.

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  Top 10 stocks in 2012

  By Tom Nawrocki  |  December 7, 2012

  As 2012 winds to a close, it’s time to take a look at the choices that made investors rich this year — or made them tear their hair out.

• Bad to the bone: A medical horror story

  By Staff Writer  |  September 26, 2012

  It's a scary situation when a medical device company conducts illegal human trials and the executives responsible plead guilty to a misdemeanor.

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  Week in Pictures | June 22, 2012

  By Michael K. Stanley  |  June 21, 2012

  Fed officials extend a program designed to keep long-term rates down, another black eye for Goldman Sachs, Greece tries to make some progress and the country anxiously awaits The Supreme Court's health care decision. This and more in this week's Week in Pictures.

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  Week in Pictures | May 18, 2012

  By Michael K. Stanley  |  May 18, 2012

  JPMorgan gets some egg on its face, N.J.'s Governor Chris Christie deep-sixes his state's health exchange plan, and Facebook's IPO rocks the markets. All this and more in this week's Week in Pictures.

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  FDA Reviews First Rapid, Take-Home Test for HIV

  By Associated Press  |  May 11, 2012

  In trials, the home test detected HIV in people carrying the virus 93% of the time.

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  Week in Pictures | April 13, 2012

  By Staff Writer  |  April 12, 2012

  Finally the protracted race for the GOP nomination seems to have come to an end, unemployment continues to plague the country, and hints of confusion among Supreme Court Justices when it comes to PPACA bubble to the surface. This and more in this week's Week in Pictures.

• Inside America’s Drug Shortage (Time)

  By Staff Writer  |  March 22, 2012

  FDA, drugmakers blame the other for increasing shortages of chemotherapy drugs, antibiotics, anesthetics and vaccines.