Word: fda
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...FDA last week approved a combination of potent antiviral drugs for chronic hepatitis C, the deadly liver disease that afflicts 4 million Americans. The therapy is six months of interferon injections plus oral doses of the drug ribavirin.There are serious side effects, such as birth defects, but the treatment reduces the hepatitis virus to undetectable levels in 45% of patients, vs. only 5% of those on standard therapy...
Sources: Journal of the American Medical Association; New England Journal of Medicine; FDA; Journal of the American Medical Association
Your treatment of delays in developing new drugs let the Food and Drug Administration off the hook. A poll of cancer specialists commissioned by the Competitive Enterprise Institute bears this out: 65% believe the FDA is too slow in approving drugs, and more than 70% state that FDA delays have hurt their ability to give the best possible care to patients on at least one occasion. Worse yet, more than 10% say they frequently encounter this problem. In short, for many of these doctors, fighting cancer very often means fighting the FDA as well. SAM KAZMAN, General Counsel Competitive Enterprise...
...FDA advisory panel last week recommended approval for a new drug, infliximab, to treat Crohn's disease--a painful, chronic inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract. There's no cure for Crohn's, but infliximab, which is administered intravenously, significantly reduces symptoms--sometimes for months at a time. Final approval is expected by this fall...
...Sources: FDA; American Society for Microbiology; Journal of Neuroscience; Agricultural Research Service, USDA