Word: fda
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Scott, the associate director of the Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Foundation, told the doctors he could not find liability insurance while awaiting final approval from the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for full licensure...
...FDA approves the drug, it should be possible to gain liability insurance, doctors said...
...sitting on somebody's desk while a great many people are suffering intolerably," said Dr. Thomas Crowe, 73, a Northampton radiologist who retired 10 years ago when his involuntary blinking rendered him unable to work. He is one of 2,000 patients who have written appeals to the FDA and Congress to speed approval of the drug...
...Burroughs Wellcome Company, of Research Triangle Park, N.C., which produces AZT, asked for FDA authorization for large scale clinical testing of the drug after controlled trials showed that it is beneficial to AIDS patients who have recovered from one or more bouts with Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia...
...proves equally effective in the new larger tests, the FDA may approve it as a prescription drug by the end of the year, said Brad W. Stone, an FDA spokesman. The FDA has made AIDS drugs a top priority, expediting their approval, Stone said...