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FDA Launches Crackdown Against Online Opioid Sales

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb announced new measures to counter the growing opioid epidemic on Tuesday, including enforcement actions against dozens of websites that sell addictive painkillers. 

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Zika: Aerial Spraying and Releasing Bats Approved

With Miami-Dade County Mosquito Control rapidly losing the battle to contain the epidemic from the Zika-carrying Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, panicking authorities began aerial spraying and may soon bring in bats that can eat 1,000 mosquitoes an hour.

Bat in flight (Raghunath Thirumalaisamy / Flickr / CC / Cropped)

New Zika Virus Test Receives Emergency Approval

A new test for the ZIka virus has received emergency approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) just as officials announced the discovery of an additional mosquito found to be carrying the virus deep into the United States.

Zika virus in Asian tiger mosquito

Theranos: Feds Launch Criminal Investigation

The U.S. Attorney’s Office and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) have opened criminal and civil probes into blood-testing company Theranos, just days after reports that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services were proposing to shutter its labs and ban its founder from the medical testing business.

Clinton Theranos (JP Yim / Getty)

March for Life Leader: ‘Punishment’ Is ‘Last Thing’ Women Who Have Abortions Need To Hear About

President of the March for Life Education and Defense Fund Jeanne Mancini joined Breitbart News Daily host and executive chairman Stephen K. Bannon Thursday to discuss GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump’s comments about abortion during an MSNBC interview Wednesday, and the FDA’s authorization of the expansion of the use of the abortion drug known as RU-486.

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