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Weld strongly criticized the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), deriding the organization as "Dr. [David] Kessler's Neighborhood" and "Feckless, Deficient and Arcane...
...Lately, the FDA has become a wet blanket that threatens to stifle the flame of biotech innovation," Weld said...
Weld said he strongly supported the reforms to the FDA proposed by Sen. Nancy Landon Kassebaum (R-Kan.), which include a faster drug approval process and greater organizational accountability...
Still, the FDA's action is bound to be controversial. While medical authorities consider that pregnancy begins when a fertilized egg implants itself in the uterus, most right-to-life advocates insist that life begins when the egg is fertilized, before implantation, and denounce any subsequent intervention. Trussell points out, however, that postcoital use can work at any of four stages in the female reproductive cycle. It can prevent ovulation, fertilization of the egg or transportation of the egg to the uterus; it can also make the uterine lining inhospitable to implantation. In any individual, he says, there...
Despite the FDA's tacit green light, drugmakers are not likely to apply for formal approval. Wyeth-Ayerst, the largest U.S. producer of oral contraceptives, has no plans to market such pills or even include emergency contraceptive instructions on its current products. The real problem, rather than any political fallout, says Wyeth spokeswoman Audrey Ashby, is the risk of getting bogged down in costly product-liability suits...