Word: fda
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...psychological boost in battles against breast cancer. But others told stories of pain from internal scar tissue, diseases they attributed to the implants, and deformities suffered when the prostheses ruptured or shifted. In the end, though, the panel voted unanimously to recommend that implants stay on the market, and FDA Commissioner David Kessler is expected to concur...
...three decades that breast implants have been on the market, the FDA has never before considered their safety. It did not have the authority to do so until 1976, and the agency took until 1988 to put the implants on its list of medical devices requiring the strictest scrutiny. The companies had until last July to document the implants' safety, but could not satisfy the FDA's experts...
LAST WEEK, the Cambridge City Council passed a "home rule" petition that would make prescription marijuana available for medicinal purposes within the city. The petition officially asks the Massachusetts state legislature to authorize Cambridge to take advantage of a now-defunct FDA program which granted medicinal marijuana to the desperately...
...sound. The legal reasoning is sound. But, hung up on an age-old taboo against "herbal medicine," overzealous government drug-warriors are unwilling to forfeit their "Just Say No" mantra for the wimpy-sounding Just Say Sometimes. That's the reasoning that led to the discontinuation of the FDA's "compassionate approval" program. And that's the reasoning that's keeping one of the few effective appetite enhancers away from dying AIDS patients...
...experimental FDA program, which has recently been phased out, made cannabis available to individuals in some states for medical purposes, under very tight supervision...