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...FDA thinks goats, cows and pigs will be safe. It doesn't have enough information yet on sheep. Some people are upset that clone-derived meat won't be labeled, keeping consumers in the dark...
...eight to two a.m." That dedication led Folkman to change the way cancer is treated today. His hunch, dating to his early days in the lab in the 1960s, that cancer tumors rely on the formation of new blood vessels for nourishment and growth, has since led to six FDA-approved anticancer drugs that weaken tumors by blocking their blood supply. "The idea was met with skepticism and ridicule back then, but he doggedly persisted in proving his ideas," says Li. "He lived long enough to see his idea transformed into new treatments for colon cancer, lung cancer, kidney cancer...
...advertisements for Vytorin, which claim that the drugs attack high cholesterol levels, whether they come from your diet or from your genes, or some combination of both. Davies says the company has made "no determination at this time" on the fate of that campaign. But it should give the FDA good reason to evaluate how it approves future medications in this class. "I suspect that in the future, FDA will require that drugs that lower cholesterol in novel ways show good clinical endpoints before getting approved," says Dr. Roger Blumenthal, director of preventive cardiology at Johns Hopkins Hospital...
JAMES HODGES, president of the American Meat Institute Foundation, on cloned livestock, whose meat and milk the FDA is expected to declare safe for consumption...
Probably not. Officials at the CDC and FDA stress that there is no serious health risk associated with this recall. The vaccines themselves have not been contaminated so far, but Merck decided to pull all the shots made on those machines as a precaution...