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Pond-raised catfish gasp for air as they are being harvested in Moorhead, Miss. (Associated Press)

Catfish inspection program costing taxpayers millions, tough to kill

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Don’t celebrate obesity

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

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DIANE KATZ: FDA cigar rules threaten industry’s small businesses

By Diane Katz

FILE - In this April 23, 2014, file photo, a man smokes an electronic cigarette in Chicago. On Thursday, May 5, 2016, the Food and Drug Administration released long-awaited rules that bring the burgeoning electronic cigarette industry under federal oversight. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)

FDA brings e-cigarettes under federal authority, bans sale to minors

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Screenshot, Live Action RU-486 video.

Live Action, pro-life group, slams Obama’s FDA for expanding access to abortion pill

By Bradford Richardson - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Thursday, Feb. 4, 2016, file photo, a medical researcher uses a monitor that shows the results of blood tests for various diseases, including Zika, at the Gorgas Memorial laboratory in Panama City. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday, March 30, 2016, they are granting use of an experimental blood test to screen blood for Zika virus, an emergency step that will help protect local blood supplies from the mosquito-borne virus. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco, File)

Zika-affected areas can screen blood with experimental test: FDA

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Nuns with the Little Sisters of The Poor, including Sister Celestine, left, and Sister Jeanne Veronique, center, rally outside the Supreme Court in Washington, Wednesday, March 23, 2016, as the court hears arguments to allow birth control in health care plans in the Zubik vs. Burwell case. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) ** FILE **

Birth control carve-out in Obamacare splits the Supreme Court

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Jan. 27, 2016, file photo, an Aedes aegypti mosquito is photographed through a microscope at the Fiocruz institute in Recife, Pernambuco state, Brazil. A field trial releasing genetically modified mosquitoes in Florida would not harm humans or the environment, according to documents released Friday, March 11, 2016 by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The agency's Center for Veterinary Medicine released a preliminary finding of no significant impact for the trial of a method that aims to reduce populations of the mosquito that spreads dengue, chikungunya and the Zika virus among humans. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)

FDA gives preliminary approval to anti-Zika trial in Florida

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

In this Jan. 18, 2016, file photo, a researcher holds a container with female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes at the Biomedical Sciences Institute in the Sao Paulo's University in Sao Paulo, Brazil. (AP Photo/Andre Penner, File)

Things to know about GMO mosquito test proposed in Florida

By Jennifer Kay - Associated Press

In this Nov. 17, 2015, file photo, Dr. Robert Califf, President Obama's then-nominee to lead the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Senate confirmed Califf to be commissioner of the FDA. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Senate confirms Robert Califf, Obama’s pick to lead FDA, despite opioid outcry

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

The Senate voted on Monday to advance the nomination Dr. Robert Califf, President Obama's pick to lead the Food and Drug Administration. (Associated Press)

Robert Califf, Obama nominee for FDA chief, advanced by Senate

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W. Va., center, accompanied by Sen. Edward J. Markey, D-Mass., right, and Rodney Miller of the West Virginia Sheriffs&#8217; Association, talks about the problem of over-prescribed and under-regulated opioid pain medicines and their opposition to the nomination of Dr. Robert Califf to run the Food and Drug Administration, Monday, Feb. 22, 2016, during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. While calling Dr. Califf &#8220;a good man,&#8221; Manchin said Califf has too many ties to the pharmaceutical industry to properly deal with the prescription opioid abuse crisis in this country. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Senate Democrats protest Obama’s pick to lead FDA

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Planned Parenthood of the Heartland clinics perform only medication abortions in Arkansas. (Associated Press/File)

Planned Parenthood asks for stay of Arkansas abortion clinic medication law

By Cheryl Wetzstein - The Washington Times

Blood is collected during a blood drive at Saint Vincent Health Center in Erie, Pa., on July 19, 2010. The Food and Drug Administration on Dec. 23, 2014, recommended an end to the nation's lifetime ban on blood donations from gay and bisexual men, a 31-year-old policy that many medical groups and gay activists say is no longer justified. (Associated Press/Erie Times-News, Jack Hanrahan) **FILE**

FDA eases restrictions on blood donations from gay men

By Cheryl Wetzstein - The Washington Times

Leo Sheng weighs a channel catfish along the Schuykill River on July 31, 2015, during a fishing session with his group called "Extreme Philly Fishing." (Ben Mikesell/The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP)

Catfish farmers in Mississippi, Alabama being squeezed by Vietnamese imports

By Anjali Shastry - The Washington Times

Camel cigarettes, a Reynolds American product, are on display at a liquor store in Palo Alto, Calif., on Feb. 1, 2011. (Associated Press) **FILE**

FDA halts sales of 4 R.J. Reynolds cigarette brands

By Matthew Perrone - Associated Press

In this June 22, 2015, photo, a tablet of flibanserin sits on a brochure for Sprout Pharmaceuticals in the company's Raleigh, N.C., headquarters. The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2015, approved the first prescription drug designed to boost sexual desire in women, a milestone long sought by a pharmaceutical industry eager to replicate the blockbuster success of impotence drugs for men. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed/File)

Q&A: What you need to know about new female libido pill

By Matthew Perrone - Associated Press

A tablet of flibanserin sits on a brochure for Sprout Pharmaceuticals in the company's Raleigh, N.C., headquarters. Sprout has succeeded where many of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies have failed: in winning Food and Drug Administration approval for flibanserin, dubbed Addyi, the first drug to boost women's sexual desire. (Associated Press)

Addyi, ‘Female Viagra’ said to boost sexual desire in women, approved by FDA

By Victor Morton - The Washington Times