Word: disappearance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Food and Drug Ad ministration has its way, many a bottle is going to disappear from drugstore and medicine-cabinet shelves in the next year or so. A few have been knocked off recently, but more will go now that FDA is invoking the power to reassess all the drugs that were approved from 1938 through early 1963, to see whether they measure up to the high standards set by the "thalidomide law." That law, officially the Drug Amendments Act, passed in 1962, contained a delay clause allowing previously approved drugs to stay on the market for two years without...
Nobody can yet guess how many drugs will be dropped because FDA finds them ineffective. Far more are likely to disappear because manufacturers find that it takes too much time to work out approved labeling. What is certain is that FDA is at last getting organized to do its enormous job properly. Since the Drug Amendments Act took effect last June, FDA has beefed up its staff of M.D.s and veterinarians from 65 to 101, with 25 more still being recruited. Most important of all, FDA's key drug-safety position, vacant for 18 months, has at last been...
...base of the nails, says Dr. Berry, the man is suffering from cyanotic heart disease. "Blue babies" (with Fallot's tetralogy) develop similar signs, but when surgery has sealed the leak between the right and left sides of the heart, the clubbing and the discoloration dramatically disappear. If the pigmentation is not present, the spatulate fingers are usually due to lung disease...
...wholehearted support of nearly all early American intellectuals. "The frontiersmen either looked forward with pleasure to the extinction of the Indians or at least were indifferent to it," writes Gossett. "The intellectuals were most often equally convinced that the Indians, because of their inherent nature, must ultimately disappear. They were frequently willing to sigh philosophically over the fate of the Indians, but this was an empty gesture...
...part they seem in control of their roles. Sir Oliver Cockwood is played nicely by Paul Jeffreys-Powell. He and his brother Sir Joslin Jolley (Jeffrey Mahlman) roar through a series of imaginary brothels with real enthusiasm, but sometimes leave their lines hanging. Footmen, waiters, etc., all appear and disappear with reassuring regularity...