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...hour later, several inches of the artery are dangling from the chest. While Michler and his team have the go-ahead from the FDA to attach the artery robotically to the beating heart, Michler's team is waiting for a better instrument to stabilize a small area on the heart so they can more precisely attach the artery. But even though they will finish the job by hand today, there's no need for a giant incision. Instead, they will work between the ribs in a hole no wider than a tennis ball to reattach the artery. About five hours...
...companies claim that it costs them between $500 million and $1 billion to bring a single new medicine to market?partly because it can take 15 years for the exhaustive testing in animals and humans required by U.S. law and partly because for every medicine finally approved by the FDA, 5,000 others fail somewhere along the way. The drug companies count on that one success to pay for the 5,000 failures. Meanwhile, pharmaceutical firms are under attack both for allegedly conspiring to keep cut-rate competitors out of the market and for profiting handsomely from basic research that...
...companies claim that it costs them between $500 million and $1 billion to bring a single new medicine to market--partly because it can take 15 years for the exhaustive testing in animals and humans required by U.S. law and partly because for every medicine finally approved by the FDA, 5,000 others fail somewhere along the way. The drug companies count on that one success to pay for the 5,000 failures. Meanwhile, pharmaceutical firms are under attack both for allegedly conspiring to keep cut-rate competitors out of the market and for profiting handsomely from basic research that...
...only the results from Gleevec's phase I or safety studies have been made public. The FDA based its decision on phase II "efficacy" data that have not yet been published. But researchers from Novartis and the Oregon Health Sciences University reported in the New England Journal of Medicine last month that 51 of 53 patients who had received the highest dose of the drug had gone into remission with only mild side effects--a little nausea, swelling and diarrhea. In seven of those cases, even the genetic abnormalities known to cause this cancer seemed to have disappeared. Doctors...
PILL OR PATCH? Mention birth control, and most people think of the Pill. Well, soon there may be an even easier way to prevent pregnancies. The world's first contraceptive skin patch--still a year away from FDA approval--may be just as effective as the birth-control pill in preventing pregnancies, say researchers. The patch is changed once a week, so women don't have to remember to pop a pill every day. And unlike another Pill alternative--Depo-Provera injections, which last three months--the effect can be reversed simply by taking the patch...