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...department also administers such institutions as the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA...
Every drug has to go through three testing phases before it gets the FDA's O.K. In Phase I it is tried on a handful of human patients after extensive testing on animals. Researchers are interested mainly in determining the harmful effects of the treatment, not necessarily how well it works. Indeed, only about half of all cancer agents make it beyond Phase I. Of those that do, about 70% flunk Phase II, during which scientists attempt to find out whether the drug actually does what it is supposed...
...should you really start paying attention. During this phase, the treatment is tried on at least 300 patients, and researchers look to see if it works better than existing therapies. By then, too, side effects are known, any claims of good results are much more reliable, and chances of FDA approval are much higher. As it happens, the front-page drug was still in the middle of Phase II testing and showed benefit in just 8 of 40 patients...
...taking over U.P.I. 8. Subsidiary of this company makes 5-Across 9. Buddy of the Clintons 10. Geraint's lady 11. Isthmus constructions 12. One of two kinds of U.S.N.A. grads 17. Again, in music 19. Like a noted Beethoven minuet 20. Baseball's Garciaparra 21. Wanderer 22. The FDA approved it in 1987 23. Gidget portrayer Sandra 24. La Cage __ Folles 26. Casablanca pianist 27. Suffix with press or moist 28. Attendance fig., often 30. Reebok rival 32. Inquisitive utterances 35. Agnus __ 37. The Firefly composer Rudolf 38. Stack role 39. Repeatedly, in rhyme 40. Morse Ts 41. Siouan...
...send on a painless info-gathering voyage through the gut. As contractions move it along, the mini-endoscope transmits detailed color images to a belt worn by the patient; then they're downloaded to a computer. Downside? Doctors can't maneuver the capsule to get a closer look. And FDA approval isn't expected for years...