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...hand, but the agency defines efficacy as outperforming a sugar pill. "You do not have to show one drug is better than another," explains Dr. Robert Temple, who heads the FDA's office of medical policy. (The exception: new drugs are tested against older therapies in devastating ailments like cancer or AIDS, when it would be unethical to give a control group placebos.) While Temple plainly sees the value of studies comparing new drugs to old, it might take an act of Congress, he says, to assign that task to the FDA: comparative studies, which cost big money, "are hard...
Chester Douglass, chair of the Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology Department at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine (HSDM), submitted written testimony to the National Research Council last year claiming that there was no significant link between fluoride and osteosarcoma, a rare but deadly form of bone cancer...
...ASIATIC BLACK BEAR is vanishing from mountainous regions of East Asia, Central Asia and Southeast Asia because bile from its gall bladder is used to treat cancer, asthma and other ailments...
...gooey black jelly made from the ground-up shell of the GOLDEN COIN TURTLE, found in Southeast and East Asia, is prized in China as a purported cure for cancer and kidney failure...
...feel secure that Harvard’s role in this is to comply with the procedures of the National Cancer Institute,” he added...