Word: fda
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...most successful medical regiments have addressed both mood and appetiete control. In a four-year study, Dr. Michael Weintraub, formerly of the University of Rochester and now at the FDA, found that a combination of the drug phentermine, which seems to speed metaboliusm, and fenfluramine, which may boost serotonin levels, improved an obese person's chances of losing weight. Of the 120 people in the study, those who took the drugs achieved an average 16% weight loss over eight months, compared with a 5% loss for those who had to depend on diet and exercise alone...
...number of people with CPR who get to the hospital with a chance to recover. The Food and Drug Administration makes illegal ((a product)) that minimizes brain damage, increases the speed of recovery and saves money." Using this pump is just "common sense," Gingrich insisted, implying that the FDA's intransigence costs lives...
...fact: The pump Gingrich displayed was invented by two Americans who licensed it to a Danish company that still hasn't applied to the FDA for permission to test it in the U.S. Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, who mistakenly believed they could test the device without FDA approval, conducted some early trials in a hospital environment. The device seemed promising, but cardiologist Michael Callaham, who oversaw the trials, says later field tests on 859 patients "unfortunately showed the pump to be of absolutely no benefit." The FDA stopped the study, says Callaham, "but we talked with...
...hasn't worked. In 1991 the FDA denied a CCHR petition to take Prozac off the market, and an FDA panel found "no credible evidence" of a link between the drug and violent behavior. In 56 criminal cases, defendants who tried the Prozac-made-me-do-it defense have been equally unsuccessful. But a verdict against Prozac might, unfortunately, scare patients off the best available medicine, says Louisville psychiatrist Dr. David Moore. "The courtroom is no place for finding scientific truth...
...FDA advisory committee has refused to approve the highly touted drug etidronate as the first nonhormonal treatment for osteoporosis, because many patients did not seem to benefit significantly from...