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...Plan B, for nonprescription distribution: You can walk into any pharmacy, pick up the pill and take it right up to the counter. It's a scenario you might not have to imagine for long if pro-choice groups and the American Medical Association have their way. Monday, the FDA, now under the supervision of pro-life Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson, was asked to consider the morning-after pill for over-the-counter status. Advocates claim the approval would change the face of reproductive health services by both granting women more autonomy and decreasing the number...
JUDGMENT CALL Extensions are nice, and while the jury is still out on perm safety, the FDA warns against dyes for this unapproved...
...recommended that anyone who had lived in France, Portugal or Ireland for a total of 10 years since 1980 be prohibited from donating blood (rules adopted last year excluded anyone who had lived in Britain for six months between 1980 and 1996). The American Red Cross, meanwhile, urged the FDA to apply the six-month rule to all of Western Europe--which would cut the supply of donors 5% or so--even though there's no evidence that the disease can be transmitted through blood in the first place...
...Western states suffer from a prion disorder called chronic wasting disease that causes severe weight loss and listlessness. When contaminated tissue was injected into the brains of cows, they too developed the disease (although cows that merely ate elk meat did not). Last week advisers to the FDA took up the question of whether deer, closely related to elk, might pose a danger to venison eaters. "We have to be vigilant," says Linda Detwiler, coordinator of BSE surveillance for the USDA...
...reversed by the U.S. Supreme Court. But Thompson has been quieter than Ashcroft about his opposition to abortion. That reticence continues today; if Thompson is looking for a fight from his Senate panel, he's doing it quietly. When asked during his hearings whether he would seek to repeal FDA approval of the controversial "abortion pill," RU-486, Thompson replied, "I don't intend to roll back anything unless it's proven to be unsafe." And although the FDA's approval is dependent upon positive results in extensive safety and efficacy tests, Thompson indicated he did not feel the case...