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...Heel. Mellow. An increasing number of veterinarians are prescribing human psychiatric medications for dogs and cats with behavior problems. The drugs have not yet been specifically approved for this purpose by the FDA, although the practice is legal. Says Nicholas Dodman, director of the Tufts University Animal Behavior Clinic and author of a new book, If Only They Could Speak: Stories About Pets and Their People (Norton): "It's got to the point now that if you don't know something about behavior-modifying drugs, you can't provide full treatment." Mild cases of misbehavior involving housebreaking and chewing...
...know about PMS--premenstrual syndrome--but PMDD was a new one on me, so I made a few calls. "PMDD is actually severe PMS," explained Dr. Kimberly Yonkers, an associate professor of psychiatry at Yale and the lead researcher of the FDA's clinical trials. Why not just call it PMS? "Well, it's more complicated than that," she told me. "It involves emotional symptoms...
...conducted some of the tests of Restylane. Beauty enthusiasts are downright giddy. "I've yet to hear anyone say anything negative about it," says Wendy Lewis, a cosmetic-surgery consultant in New York City who has used Restylane herself. The Swedish manufacturer of Restylane, Q-Med, plans to seek FDA approval next month and is hoping for a U.S. launch next spring. But true beauty junkies won't be waiting that long. Some U.S. doctors are bringing back bootleg Restylane--or having patients do it--and charging up to $1,000 a shot. --By Charla Krupp
...felt somewhat vindicated last week by a report in the Journal of the American Medical Association about the safety problems associated with new medications. Of 548 drugs approved by the FDA over the past 25 years, fully 20% turned out to have serious or life-threatening effects that were unknown or undisclosed at the time of approval, according to an analysis directed by the Harvard Medical School. Sixteen drugs were subsequently withdrawn from the market, but not before millions of people had been exposed. Seven of those drugs had side effects so serious they were cited as possible contributing factors...
...THINKERS To help assess the growing tide of innovations that washes across its desks, the Patent and Trademark Office is desperate to find more qualified engineers and intellectual-property lawyers. Other high-end specialists are needed, such as drug reviewers at the FDA; accountants and statisticians at the Labor and Treasury departments, the Internal Revenue Service and the Securities and Exchange Commission; and trade experts at Commerce...