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Crawford's move was unusual in contradicting the advice of scientists at his own agency. In a 12-page internal memo obtained by TIME, Dr. Steven Galson, acting director of the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, urged that Barr Laboratories, which makes the drug, be allowed to sell the pill over the counter, albeit with age restrictions. In the memo, written on Aug. 26, Galson argued that Plan B had been proved "safe and effective without the supervision of a practitioner licensed by law for women ages 17 and older." Subordinates had argued for an even less...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Morning After at the FDA | 9/6/2005 | See Source »

Researchers are hunting for clues to why one person develops the disease while others merely harbor the virus. Some investigators suspect that additional viral infections may play a role as accomplices or triggers. The main suspects: Epstein-Barr virus and cytomegalovirus (both members of the herpes family) and the virus that causes hepatitis B. The difficulty, says Lange, comes in determining whether such viruses are in fact co-agents of AIDS or merely tagalong infections...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIDS: A Growing Threat | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

Other bug-based therapies for cancer take advantage of the body's natural response to invaders. To this end, scientists at the Texas Medical Center have enlisted the aid of the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV). More than 95% of the population is infected with EBV, a usually benign microbe that sequesters itself in the immune system's B cells. Like any other cellbound virus, EBV doesn't remain dormant for long, dividing furiously and emerging in runaway viral mobs. But unlike most other viruses, EBV is quickly eliminated by the vigilant immune system's killer T cells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Bad Bugs Go Good | 3/20/2005 | See Source »

Andrew G. Barr ’05, a government concentrator in Dunster House, said that “obviously my instinct is not to buy into any theory that there’s any sort of genetic flaw in women that prevents them from being good professors...

Author: By Daniel J. Hemel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Summers' Comments on Women and Science Draw Ire | 1/14/2005 | See Source »

...Barr said, “it’s too soon in the academic and scientific discussion of this hypothesis to be getting hysterical, and it’s too soon in the story of what President Summers does or doesn’t believe to be getting hysterical...

Author: By Daniel J. Hemel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Summers' Comments on Women and Science Draw Ire | 1/14/2005 | See Source »

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