Word: fda
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...recent months, BRI, which was created by Matthew L. Israel '54, has found itself under fire from the Massachusetts Department of Mental Retardation, advocates for the disabled and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). It has also been the topic of a CBS special and the target of a bill in the state legislature designed to prevent aversive therapies...
Students receive shocks to stop them frommutilating themselves or from hurting others,Israel says. The Boston branch of the FDA confirmsthat the electric shock is applied for thesepurposes. The FDA has been receiving informationfrom BRI on the use of electric shocks since...
...pulmonologist added that he expects the FDA to approve the drug within a year. More than 1100 patients have been tested in clinical trials to date. When that number doubles, Drazen said, the drug will likely be approved for general...
Monsanto, which reports brisk sales in its new product, insists that milk from BGH-treated cows is indistinguishable from ordinary milk. The Food and Drug Administration, the National Institutes of Health and the American Medical Association agree. Says FDA Commissioner David Kessler: "There's virtually no difference between treated and untreated cows...
...hope your bus ride to God's Country will be getting a little hot and steamy. Just the time to mention the invention of the birth control pill by the Worcester Biological Foundation. Its approval by the FDA in 1960 undoubtedly led directly to the next important Worcester invention, the yellow smiley face, designed in 1963 by Worcester artist Harvey Ball...