Word: fda
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...company Ford and Riley founded, Biofem, sought to develop and market a vaginal suppository, Inner Confidence, to protect women against HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases, but had yet to win FDA approval...
...Smith adds, no one has yet figured out exactly how these drugs might affect children in terms of benefits or drawbacks. That's about to change. The Clinton proposal, being announced Monday, will educate parents and teachers about the risks of psychotropic drugs through government programs and increased FDA vigilance and labeling. And as the White House plans a major conference on childhood mental illness, which they hope to hold in the fall, the National Institutes of Health will also launch a sweeping, nationwide study of the drugs' effects on young patients...
...anthrax vaccine itself has been in use for 20 years in various cow-related occupations (remember when anthrax was only a bovine disease and a heavy metal band?) and was FDA-approved at one point, though the inspectors haven't been too crazy about the production line at maker BioPort's big new plant. BioPort itself is now swamped with demand and cash flow problems, thanks to the Pentagon's bulk order, prompting more worries about the quality and safety of future batches...
...tactic of tobacco giant Philip Morris, which, after years of successfully fending off government regulation, appears to have seen too many unwelcome smoke signals coming out of Washington. Although most analysts and industry officials were hedging their bets on regulation until the Supreme Court completed its review of the FDA's right to regulate tobacco as a drug, Philip Morris senior vice president Steven Parrish announced Tuesday that the company is willing to negotiate. Parrish told the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal that no matter what the Justices decide, the makers of Marlboro want to sit down...
...face the possibility that the government will be sued by the personnel who have already received their jabs. While it has proved nearly impossible in the past to sue the Pentagon for such cases as Agent Orange and Gulf War Syndrome, there is the potential for claims against the FDA, which approved the vaccine. While the Pentagon and the FDA maintain that the only side effects are fever, muscle pains and dizziness - all of which are supposed to disappear within a few days - fears of the vaccine have been contagious in the ranks. This past weekend a dozen members...