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BEYOND VIAGRA Ready for an alternative to the little blue impotence pill? An advisory panel to the FDA--whose recommendations the agency usually follows--has, ahem, doled out support for Uprima, a new impotence drug that works by targeting chemicals in the brain thought to be responsible for an erection. (Viagra, by contrast, increases blood flow to the penis.) Uprima can act in as little as 10 min. and succeeds in 60% of men, but it's not without risks: 1 in 30 subjects who took it either fainted or suffered serious drops in blood pressure...
Sources: Good News--Archives of Internal Medicine (4/10/00); FDA. Bad News--(1 & 2) Journal of the American Medical Association (4/12/00...
...epic struggle of man against microbe, scientists have won the latest battle, but it remains to be seen which side will win the war. On Tuesday, Pharmacia-Upjohn received FDA approval for the first completely new type of antibiotic in more than 35 years. The medication comes as a welcome weapon in the war on "superbugs," mutated bacteria that, over the generations, have grown immune to the old-standby antibiotics. The new drug, Zyvox, is not a cure-all - it attacks only certain forms of bacteria - but in tests it cured two thirds of the patients with strains of staph...
...monetary value once out of the media limelight and once the victim feels the glow of success. Mere show or a check drawn on the tobacco companies' account, however, this settlement is a worrisome event. It's time to either give the tobacco industry a break or have the FDA regulate it as a drug. Kicking Big Tobacco when it is down is just...
...TOBACCO Court denies FDA power to control butts. But every cancer-ward patient is lined...