The Food and Drug Administration last week took action to ban a commonly used dye used in everything from candy to cough syrup because of its links to cancer.

Twenty staff members at the Upstate Correctional Facility in Northern New York are recovering after being sent to the hospital for possible exposure to an unknown substance.

Members of the Sackler family who own OxyContin-maker Purdue Pharma, and the company itself, have agreed to pay up to $7.4 billion to settle lawsuits over the toll of the powerful prescription ...