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Then the bubble burst. In July, Mayo Clinic doctors reported finding serious heart-valve damage in 24 fen/phen users. Several had to have valves replaced. Alarmed by the Mayo reports, other doctors began looking more closely at their fen/phen patients and found similar problems. The FDA sent a warning to physicians but stopped short of further action. Barely two months later, heart-valve problems were reported in 30% of 291 patients taking fen/phen or Redux, and the agency asked the companies to recall the drugs...
...Jasanoff, head of science and technology studies at Cornell University. "As a result, you're getting court-driven findings as opposed to true science." But even "true" science may sometimes not be enough to sway a jury. Dow Chemical lawyers are armed with studies by Harvard and the Mayo Clinic, assessments from the Food and Drug Administration and the American Medical Association, and testimony from respected scientists, all saying there is no evidence of a significant link between silicone and systemic disease in women with implants. Yet twice before, in trials similar to the one that will unfold in Louisiana...
...Mayo Clinic released another preliminary study two months ago linking the drugs to a rare form of heart disease. Determining the relationship between valve damage and taking fen-phen or Redux will be difficult, since several of the women examined in the Mayo study were taking higher-than-prescribed doses. Ultimately, the studies confirm FDA recommendations that these medications should only be prescribed to the dangerously obese...
...Methodist Episcopal Church in Queens, N.Y., with 9,000 members and a towering new $23 million cathedral, operates a government-funded social-services network that would be the envy of many municipal governments. The church's 30,000-sq.-ft. social-services center houses a city-funded walk-in clinic and federal Head Start classrooms at street level. On the center's second floor are a city-sponsored prenatal-counseling program for teen mothers, a state-sponsored housing and community-renewal program and offices for the federal Women, Infants and Children program. Scattered throughout the building, which is owned...
Federal investigators now believe last July's Centennial Olympic Park explosion (a possible witness is still being sought) and two other unsolved ATLANTA BOMBINGS may have been the work of a deranged loner, not a political extremist group as first suspected. After the bombings of an Atlanta abortion clinic and a gay nightclub, claims of responsibility were lodged by "units of the Army of God," a nom de guerre used by some violent antiabortion protesters. But agents scouring the South have identified no group with the motive, opportunity and means to have perpetrated the bombings. Investigators suspect the political rhetoric...