US expands access to abortion pills
Retail pharmacies in the United States will be permitted to sell abortion pills, health officials said Tuesday, a move that ...
Read moreTag: Food and Drug Administration
Public Attorney backs FDA vs. fake medicines
Public Attorney’s Office chief Persida Acosta supports the Food and Drug Administration campaign to go after fake medicines and illegal ...
Read more
Sen. Tulfo bares corruption at FDA: Up to P20M ‘asking price’ to secure product registration
Senator Raffy Tulfo on Thursday claimed that a company was asked to shell out from P5 million to P20 million ...
Read more
FDA chief vows to streamline drug approval process
Food and Drug Administration director-general Dr. Samuel Zacate vowed to remove red tape and introduce innovations within the agency in ...
Read more
Instant noodle ban, price hike on Pinoy Bread still pending
The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) is ready to remove instant noodles from retail market shelves once the Food ...
Read more
New US strategy to make monkeypox vaccine go further
US health authorities on Tuesday authorized a new procedure for injecting the monkeypox vaccine that should make it possible to ...
Read more
Marcos names Dimayuga to MMDA, Zacate to FDA, new legal executives
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has appointed Carlo Dimayuga III as acting chairman of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA). He ...
Read more
DOH: ‘Inherent constraints’ in fight against monkeypox
The Philippines has to make do with what is available under a limited environment to combat monkeypox, the Department of ...
Read more
FDA: Lucky Me! noodles are safe for consumption
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has declared the locally produced Lucky Me! Noodle products safe for human consumption. The ...
Read more
US seeks to slash nicotine content in cigarettes
President Joe Biden’s administration announced it would develop a new policy requiring cigarette producers to reduce nicotine to non-addictive levels—a ...
Read more
Manila Standard website (manilastandard.net), launched in August 2002, extends the newspaper’s reach beyond its traditional readers and makes its brand of Philippine news and opinion available to a much wider and geographically diverse readership here and overseas.