Thousands of women are now suing pharmaceutical giant Pfizer over claims its popular birth control injection left them with ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a new safety warning for Depo-Provera, a widely used birth control shot made by Pfizer, alerting patients to a possible risk for a type of brain ...

Pfizer’s battle over the safety label for its birth control injection has finally come to a close. The pharma giant announced that the Food and Drug Administration approved its new safety warning ...

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The FDA approved a label change for the birth control shot depot medroxyprogesterone acetate (Depo-Provera), which now warns about the risk of meningioma, according to a letter posted on the agency ...

The decision comes as Pfizer faces lawsuits from more than 1000 women who say the company knew about the risks and didn’t warn them. The agency signed off last week on a label update for 2 versions of ...

The FDA approved a label change for Pfizer’s birth control injection Depo-Provera on Dec. 13, adding a warning about the risk of meningioma — a brain tumor — to two versions of the drug. The update ...

CLEVELAND — The Food and Drug Administration has approved a new warning label for Depo-Provera, one of the most widely used birth control shots in the United States, alerting users to a potential risk ...

The CDC has rescinded its long-standing advice on universal hepatitis B vaccination of newborns within 24 hours of birth.

More parents are refusing a shot typically given at birth to reduce the risk of infant bleeding, a study recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found. An injection of ...

Ed Silverman, a senior writer and Pharmalot columnist at STAT, has been covering the pharmaceutical industry for nearly three decades. He is also the author of the morning Pharmalittle newsletter and ...