Matthew Perrone

Matthew Perrone, AP Health Writer

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  • FILE – Varieties of disposable flavored electronic cigarette devices manufactured by EB Design, formerly known as Elf Bar, are displayed at a store in Pinecrest, Fla., Monday, June 26, 2023. U.S. officials are seizing more shipments of unauthorized electronic cigarettes. But industry data shows thousands of new flavored products continue pouring into the country from China. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)Health

    The FDA is losing a whack-a-mole contest with illegal Chinese e-cigarettes as health experts warn of more teens getting ‘addicted to nicotine’

    By Matthew Perrone and The Associated Press
  • EyedropsHealth

    Your eyedrops could be filled with filthy bacteria. The FDA says ‘ultimately industry is responsible for the quality of their products’

    By Matthew Perrone and The Associated Press
  • 14 September 2023, North Rhine-Westphalia, Dortmund: The manufacturer Elfbar presents its e-cigarette to interested parties at the InterTabak/InterSupply 2023 from 14-16 September 2023 at the Dortmund Fair. At the fair, the company will present its novelties around smoking. Photo: Roberto Pfeil/dpa (Photo by Roberto Pfeil/picture alliance via Getty Images)Finance

    ‘They know how to game this system’: The maker of the world’s most popular vape mis-labeled them as toys or batteries to avoid customs and import taxes

    By Matthew Perrone and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Elf Bar disposable vaping pod devices are displayed, Monday, June 26, 2023, in Washington. In December 2023, U.S. authorities publicly announced the first seizure of some of the company’s shipments, part of an operation confiscating 1.4 million illegal, flavored e-cigarettes from China. They pegged the value of the items at $18 million, including brands other than Elf Bar. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)Finance

    Elf Bar and other Chinese e-cigarette makers dodged U.S. customs and taxes by labeling them as ‘battery chargers,’ ‘flashlights’ and other items

    By Matthew Perrone and The Associated Press
  • A colorful assortment of disposable e-cigarettesRetail

    U.S. lawmakers tried banning Elf Bar and other e-cigarettes imported from China—it didn’t work, and now they’re trying again

    By Matthew Perrone and The Associated Press
  • packs of menthol cigarettes sits on a tableHealth

    Menthol cigarette ban delay raises anti-smoking group fears that the proposal may fall apart

    By Matthew Perrone and The Associated Press
  • BOULDER, COLODARO – NOVEMBER 14: At Boulder Mind Care Dr. Wade Grindle gives ketamine to some patiences to help with their depression on November 14, 2022 in Boulder, Colorado. (Photo by RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images)Health

    Doctors are prescribing the trendy, mind-altering drug ketamine for hard-to-treat pain. Experts worry the U.S. may be repeating mistakes that gave rise to the opioid crisis

    By Matthew Perrone and The Associated Press
  • VapingHealth

    The teens are vaping less, as high school student ecigarette use plunges to 10% in nationwide CDC study

    By Mike Stobbe, Matthew Perrone, and others
  • Two teenagers vapingEnvironment

    E-cigarettes pose a new environmental dilemma—the ‘insidious devices’ can be neither recycled nor thrown in the trash

    By Matthew Perrone and The Associated Press
  • A hand holding an Elf Bar disposable vaping pod device.Health

    Chinese vaping company bypasses FDA ban with simple name change

    By Matthew Perrone and The Associated Press
  • FILE – A sign for the Food and Drug Administration is displayed outside their offices in Silver Spring, Md., on Dec. 10, 2020. On Friday, Sept. 29, 2023, the FDA laid out a proposal to begin regulating laboratory medical tests, a multibillion-dollar industry that it says poses a growing risk to patients because of potentially inaccurate results. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)Health

    FDA takes aim at ‘unsafe or ineffective’ laboratory medical tests, warns of ‘false or misleading claims’ amid regulatory ambiguity

    By Matthew Perrone and The Associated Press
  • In this photo provided by I AM ALS, Dan Tate, right, delivers a printed petition from ALS patients and advocates to Dr. Peter Marks, left, director of the Food and Drug Administration’s center for biologics at the FDA campus in Silver Spring, Md., on Dec. 14, 2022. The FDA meets this week to consider approval of an experimental treatment for Lou Gehrig’s disease, the culmination of a yearslong lobbying effort by patients with the fatal, neurodegenerative disease. Those advocates still face one giant hurdle: FDA regulators say the treatment hasn’t been shown to work. In documents posted Monday, Sept. 25, 2023 the FDA reiterated its longstanding position: drugmaker Brainstorm’s lone study doesn’t provide clear evidence that its stem cell-based therapy helps patients with ALS, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. (Sonya Elling/I AM ALS via AP)Health

    An experimental treatment for ALS will get its day before the FDA this week—but the agency is unconvinced it works

    By Matthew Perrone and The Associated Press
  • SudafedHealth

    The top decongestant on the market doesn’t actually decongest, FDA says

    By Matthew Perrone and The Associated Press
  • This illustration provided by Perrigo in May, 2023, depicts proposed packaging for the company’s birth control medication Opill. Advisers to the Food and Drug Administration meet next week to review drugmaker Perrigo’s application to sell a decades-old pill over the counter. The two-day public meeting is one of the last steps before an FDA decision. (Perrigo via AP)Health

    First U.S. over-the-counter birth control pill gets FDA approval and will be available early next year

    By Matthew Perrone and The Associated Press
  • LeqembiHealth

    First Alzheimer’s drug shown to modestly slow cognitive decline gets full FDA approval

    By Matthew Perrone and The Associated Press