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...grassy-tasting plant has been added to two varieties of SmartChocolate bars, a new raspberry flavor of Vitaminwater called Determination, and Zygo, a peach-infused vodka. Enthusiasts claim the plant's antioxidants help fight cancer, though like all herbal products, yerba mate hasn't been tested by the FDA. --By Rebecca Winters
...traditional glucose test that measures blood-sugar levels. The new gold standard is the A1C test, which measures levels of a substance in the blood called hemoglobin A1C. The A1C test tells you how well you've been controlling your glucose levels for the past three months. The FDA has approved several A1C monitors for home use; the ideal A1C number for diabetics is less than...
...whole new era. At first, just scientists were excited, because Prozac, as the Eli Lilly company christened it for the market, was the first in a new class of medications that would treat depression by exquisitely controlling the levels of serotonin, a brain chemical involved in mood. But the FDA's approval letter became the founding charter for a Prozac nation, as vast numbers of American consumers were seduced by a prescription to lift one's mood. Today they spend more than $1 billion on Prozac each year, to treat not just depression but also obsessive-compulsive disorder and premenstrual...
...stock had risen 21% in the previous two months. Some urologists bought rubber stamps so they could churn out prescriptions, and equally excited patients booked advance appointments. Despite all that, Viagra, the world's most popular prescription party drug, didn't have much of a party the day the FDA gave its much-anticipated O.K. to sildenafil citrate. That's because giant pharmaceutical companies--even ones that get a license from the government to print money in blue-pill form--aren't really party places. "We had a nice dinner that night," admits Dr. Ian Osterloh, who directed the development...
...drug, originally designed to treat angina (patients still had angina, but some also noted a different kind of agitation they had not had in some time), was approved as expected on the final day of the FDA's six-month priority review. News of the approval immediately went up on the FDA website, the first time the agency notified the public of its decision in real time. And then the world celebrated: Cocoon was played out in every Florida retirement community, marriages moved on to deeper problems, the porn industry was democratized and talk-show hosts...