Word: fda
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Growth Spurts. In 1938, at the start of the wonder-drug era, FDA was given broader powers after a sloppy preparation of sulfanilamide killed 107 people. But the sulfas were only the first of several families of potent drugs developed by inventive chemists working with imaginative physicians. And the high tide of new drugs was arriving at a time when the food industry, which gives FDA 70% of its work, had begun its own technical revolution with new preservatives, additives, and other chemicals. The agency did not have nearly enough manpower to do a thorough job, nor was its prestige...
...review. Relayed to press and public, review items often cause alarm. But they consist largely of unevaluated "raw data"; many of the cases, said Dr. Shaw, have not been checked to make sure whether the patient was indeed taking the drug named, or taking other drugs with it. The FDA, which cannot afford to investigate every case, keeps the names of doctors and patients confidential. This information, suggested Dr. Shaw, should be given to manufacturers-who have the means and the motivation to ferret out the facts...
Amphetamines and barbiturates get into illegal channels from makers of basic chemicals, drug manufacturers, distributors, retail drugstores, and, says the FDA's Sadusk, "even from physicians." In an effort to plug that last leak, the A.M.A. issued a warning to doctors to prescribe only the required amount of any drug for specific symptoms, and not to write prescriptions that can be refilled indefinitely...
...National Cancer Institute at $170,000 a gram, though Krebiozen is creatine monohydrate, a common chemical costing 300 a gram-and "even if Krebiozen could be produced by the method allegedly used by Durovic, would cost [only] about $8,000 per gram." > Drs. Durovic and Ivy told the FDA that as of 1961 a patient had been "well and free of complaints for nine years since the start of Krebiozen," when in fact the patient died of cancer in 1955. - > Dr. Phillips certified that a patient had died of virus pneumonia in 1953 and an autopsy had been refused, when...
...some danger that the injections may promote the growth of ovarian cysts, and have other harmful side effects. Nobody is preparing the pituitary extract for general use. Cutter Laboratories of Berkeley, Calif., has sole rights to make and market Pergonal in the U.S., but it will take the FDA months or years to decide whether the drug should be cleared for general use. Meanwhile, the fertility research centers are booked solid for all available supplies, and they cannot take care of any more patients...