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Epoetin alfa is only one among many designer-fashioned molecules that have been used both to treat bodily deficiencies and to influence certain cellular processes. Each year since 1982, when insulin became the first DNA-based drug to be approved by the fda, the list has steadily lengthened. Sales of drugs produced by the manipulation of DNA currently run in the billions of dollars...
...Paul, vice president for central-nervous-system research at Eli Lilly, calls "Clozaril wannabes" that they hope will work as well without triggering agranulocytosis. One of the wannabes, risperidone (Risperdal), made by Belgium-based Janssen Pharmaceutica, entered the market in 1993, and four others are nearing approval by the fda, including Lilly's Zyprexa and Abbott Labs' Serlect. Meanwhile, further down the drug-development pipeline are a number of third-generation Clozaril cousins, some of which are specifically targeted at the little-known D3 and D4 receptors...
This summer an FDA advisory panel recommended that RU 486, a French oral contraceptive, be approved for use in the U.S. More than 200,000 European women have used RU 486, which induces an abortion in 95% of cases. To be effective, the drug--actually two different pills--must be taken within the first seven weeks of pregnancy. A small number of women using RU 486 reported uterine bleeding and severe cramping that required pain medication...
...FDA has approved IvyBlock, the first drug that can guard against POISON IVY, SUMAC and OAK. The over-the-counter lotion binds with plant allergens, preventing them from penetrating the skin...
...fight the new advertising rules in court as an unconstitutional restriction on free speech. Earlier this year the Supreme Court struck down a state law that banned the mention of liquor prices in advertising. "The evidence is clear," says Brennan Dawson, spokesperson of the Tobacco Institute, "that the FDA's rules do not address the reasons youngsters smoke, will not work to reduce youth access to tobacco, and are an illegal expansion of this federal agency's authority." Or as they used to say in those old cigarette commercials, we'd rather fight than switch...