Word: fda
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...says Brum, Vertex had identified a likely anti-AIDS drug candidate--code-named VX-478--and signed an $42 million agreement with Glaxo-Wellcome to market and develop the compound under the brand name Amprenavir. Clinical trials began in February, 1995, and approval from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is expected...
...political campaigns are financed. On tobacco, McCain would again have public opinion behind him, but he also had to please an array of constituencies: Democrats, Republicans, the White House, the industry, plaintiffs' lawyers and hard-line public health groups represented by former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop and former fda boss David Kessler...
...more people to seek help. Unlike typical aids that simply magnify all sounds, the tiny Cetera model uses new digital technology to mimic our natural ability to block out background noise and zero in on specific sounds, like a whisper or a voice across the room. If it wins FDA approval, the Cetera could be available for about $3,000 by summer...
Irwin Goldstein could hardly wait for the FDA to approve Viagra. The renowned Boston University urologist is so excited about last week's approval of the first-ever impotence pill for men that he is opening a new sexual-dysfunction clinic, and will soon begin prescribing the drug--for women...
Viagra trials in women are already under way in Europe. In April the FDA is holding an invitation-only meeting of scientists and pharmaceutical executives to discuss possible testing and use of the drug in women in the U.S. And in June leading sex researchers will devote their annual meeting in Cape Cod to discussing how a range of impotence drugs might be tested in female patients. If the medications prove effective, they could offer women a safer alternative to the current best weapon against female sexual dysfunction, hormone-replacement therapy, which carries a slightly increased risk of cancer. Meanwhile...