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...Barr, a Republican, was a member of the House of Representatives from Georgia from...
...easy access to Plan B prescriptions. It is a commendable way to combat the consequences of a flawed FDA ruling. If the FDA continues to inject politics into drug decisions, it will undermine the credibility of its evaluations of drug safety. For the short term, the FDA should reconsider Barr Pharmaceutical’s application to make Plan B over-the-counter. For the long term, the FDA must acquiesce to permanent oversight in order to prevent missteps like these from happening in the future...
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...
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...
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...