Matthew Perrone

Matthew Perrone, AP Health Writer

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15 September 2022, North Rhine-Westphalia, Dortmund: A smoker inhales a disposable e-cigarette made by Elf Bar, which is presenting it to visitors at the Intertabac trade fair. Since the introduction of disposable products, the demand for e-cigarettes has increased significantly. Photo: Roberto Pfeil/dpa (Photo by Roberto Pfeil/picture alliance via Getty Images)

FDA slams the most popular disposable e-cigarette in U.S. as ‘addicting our nation’s youth’ and warns stores to stop selling it

By Matthew Perrone and The Associated Press

21 December 2022, Lower Saxony, Lehrte: An employee of the DRK blood donation service (German Red Cross) holds a whole blood unit in his hands. In the box in the background, more preserved blood is stored. Photo: Michael Matthey/dpa (Photo by Michael Matthey/picture alliance via Getty Images)

More gay men can donate blood after controversial decades-old rules to protect from HIV infections are loosened

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. Federal health advisers said Wednesday, May 10, 2023, that the decades-old birth control pill should be sold without a prescription, paving the way for a likely U.S. approval of the first over-the-counter contraceptive medication. (Perrigo via AP)

An FDA panel just voted unanimously in favor of over-the-counter birth control paving the way for nationwide access

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)

The FDA is considering an over-the-counter birth control pill for the first time ever

By Matthew Perrone and The Associated Press

WHITE OAK, MD – JULY 20: A sign for the Food And Drug Administration is seen outside of the headquarters on July 20, 2020 in White Oak, Maryland. (Photo by Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images)

FDA signals the growing recognition of the gut in health by approving the first fecal transplant pill

By Matthew Perrone and The Associated Press

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First-of-its-kind drug for rare form of Lou Gehrig’s disease gets FDA approval

By Matthew Perrone and The Associated Press

Mifepristone (Mifeprex) and Misoprostol, the two drugs used in a medication abortion, are seen at the Women’s Reproductive Clinic, which provides legal medication abortion services, in Santa Teresa, New Mexico, on June 17, 2022. Mifepristone is taken first to stop the pregnancy, followed by Misoprostol to induce bleeding. – In the wake of Friday’s ruling by the US Supreme Court striking down Roe v Wade and the federally protected right to an abortion, women from Texas and other states are traveling to clinics like the Women’s Reproductive Health Clinic in New Mexico for legal abortion services under the state’s more liberal laws. – RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE (Photo by Robyn Beck / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE (Photo by ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)

Conflicting court rulings put access to widely-used abortion pill mifepristone into question

By Paul J. Weber, Matthew Perrone, and others

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FDA orders immediate withdrawal of only drug approved for preterm birth prevention

By Matthew Perrone and The Associated Press

23 August 2022, Hamburg: Pregnant Lilli Hollunder-Adler, actress, holds her hands on her stomach during the reopening of the restaurant “Casse-Croûte”. Photo: Marcus Brandt/dpa (Photo by Marcus Brandt/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Unproven birth drug that symbolized the FDA’s struggle to pull drugs from the market is finally withdrawn

By Matthew Perrone and The Associated Press

FILE – Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Robert Califf testifies via video during a House Commerce Oversight and Investigations subcommittee hybrid hearing on the nationwide baby formula shortage on Wednesday, May 25, 2022, in Washington. Califf has spent much of his last year on the job warning that growing “distortions and half-truths” surrounding vaccines and other medical products are a major driver of sickness and death in America. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf, File)

The FDA is using YouTube and Twitter to try and tackle ‘a leading cause of death in America’: Online misinformation

By Matthew Perrone and The Associated Press

FILE – Boxes of the drug mifepristone sit on a shelf at the West Alabama Women’s Center in Tuscaloosa, Ala., on March 16, 2022. Lawsuits have been filed in West Virginia and North Carolina challenging the states’ restrictions on the use of abortion pills. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed, File)

New lawsuits target abortion pill restrictions in North Carolina and West Virginia

By Matthew Perrone and The Associated Press

A medical worker administers a dose of flu vaccine to a recipient at a medical center in Rosemead, California, the United States, on Dec. 10, 2022. Multiple respiratory viruses are currently co-circulating with influenza in the United States, said the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC, urging the public to take flu shots and COVID-19 boosters to prevent from severe illnesses. (Photo by Xinhua via Getty Images)

U.S. proposes streamlining COVID vaccinations by making them once-a-year—like a flu shot

By Matthew Perrone and The Associated Press

FDA Commissioner Robert Califf

The first drug to have even a limited impact on Alzheimer’s just got FDA approval. ‘This drug is not a cure.’

By Matthew Perrone and The Associated Press

Joe Biden

The FDA just finalized a Biden rule change to make abortion pills much more widely available at pharmacies nationwide

By Matthew Perrone and The Associated Press

In this photo provided by Becky Mourey, Becky Mourey, center, and her husband Jim, left, meet with representatives for Illinois Rep. Jan Schakowsky at her offices on Capitol Hill, Washington DC in May 2022. Mourey and other ALS patients spent more than two years advocating for the approval of the new drug, Relyvrio, a treatment for ALS. Patients say they are now facing insurance and financial hurdles to access the drug, which costs $158,000. (Nicole Cimbura via AP)

ALS patients face dilemma over drug’s $158K price tag: ‘I’m not going to spend all my money on this’

By Matthew Perrone and The Associated Press