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...Food and Drug Administration (FDA) banished gay donors from the blood supply almost two decades ago admist national hysteria and confusion surrounding HIV. Gay men were dying by the thousands at the hands of the mysterious disease, and media reports of heterosexuals transfused with infected blood only fueled anxiety. With public confidence in the blood supply shattered, the FDA was willing to take drastic action to avert crisis. The resulting gay ban remains in effect today...
Those long odds got a boost last week when the FDA approved the first consumer-friendly device designed to restart hearts in the home, where 70% of cardiac arrests occur. The HeartStart Home Defibrillator, manufactured by Philips Electronics, is similar to other so-called automated external defibrillators (AEDs) that you may have seen in casinos or airports. The machines deliver the same electrical shock as those paddles doctors use in the hospital--and without which no medical television show worth its Nielsens could long survive...
...number of HUDS vendors adhere to Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP), a food safety program adopted by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that focuses on preventing hazards that could cause foodborne illnesses, Mayer said...
...pushed his study through. A stubborn and irreverent oncologist who had watched hundreds of aids patients suffer brutal nausea, he won government approval in 1997 for the first clinical trial of marijuana in more than a decade. Marijuana proposals at the time required the approval of three agencies--the FDA, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the National Institute on Drug Abuse--and the DEA and NIDA had resisted. A DEA official worried in a letter about the political fallout if Abrams found positive results. "The government is saying there are no studies proving the medical benefits," Abrams fumed...
...encouraging anecdotal reports, the National Institutes of Health hasn't initiated a study of cannabis therapeutics in two decades, leaving California's young center as the only U.S. research institution doing the basic science. Marijuana remains the only drug that researchers must acquire directly from the feds. If the FDA and DEA approve, scientists can get even ecstasy from outside labs, but NIDA is the sole source for cannabis, requiring a third bureaucratic layer. "In an era of privatization, it's shocking that the government insists on a monopoly so that it can choose not to provide marijuana to projects...