Word: fda
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...government succeeded in banning a headache remedy containing a toxic acid and bearing the beguiling name of Cuforhedake-Brane-Fude. The Food and Drug Administration, which was formally established in 1931, has stamped out such gross quackery. But now many concerned scientists are beginning to wonder whether the FDA has become so cautious in its repression of quack cures and unsafe medicines that it is in some danger of stamping out or at least slowing the development of new drugs. The latest report is by two pharmacologists from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. The current laws...
...major part of the FDA's problem, say the Rochester researchers, is a set of 1962 amendments to the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act-passed in response to the thalidomide disaster that produced thousands of deformed babies throughout Europe. These amendments, which aimed at assuring that drugs were effective, and earlier amendments setting standards for safety, were designed to prevent the introduction of any drugs that might be toxic or cause birth defects or cancer. But they have had other, less desirable effects as well...
What makes laetrile so in demand is what the Krebs claimed was its "antineoplastic" activity. That means it's supposed to shrink tumor growth, or as they say in medicine, cure cancer. People who are convinced laetrile will arrest their cancers sometimes manage to get around the FDA, and one particularly desperate man in Oklahoma City who won a case last month was granted a six-month supply of laetrile. The FDA is fighting the verdict...
...FDA requires extensive tests of a drug on animals before it will approve the chemical for human administration. Even that approval, however, is for very limited use until investigations prove the drug's effectiveness. Wayne Pines, a spokesman for the federal agency, says the FDA has approved 25 drugs for commerical distribution in the treatment of cancer, and has granted licenses for the experimental investigation of another 175 chemicals...
Frei says that academic boards of authorities should be allowed to decide what chemicals can be administered to terminal cancer cases. As he said on the telephone to a colleague two weeks ago, "Many (cancer) centers have much more sophisticated people sitting around a table than the FDA has." Frei's image of a self-contained cancer center where researchers determine the limits on experimentation suggests the type of facility where heady and expert investigators can experiment on human beings with impunity, but he emphasizes the ethical obligation to serve the patient first, above any commitment to research. But Frei...