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...often felt like swimming through Jell-O--is both a worthy and a popular cause. The appetite for free-market trial and error is limited, however, in a business where error has sometimes meant disfigurement or death. "There's a great push to try to cut down the FDA," says Fred Dorey of the Bay Area Bioscience Center in Oakland, Calif., a trade organization for biotechnology firms. "But that's from people who don't realize there is a role for government regulation, and it's not going to go away...
...contain, force manufacturers to include labels warning that excessive use can cause death, and direct them to abandon claims that ephedrine helps users to build muscle and lose weight. The regulations will also prohibit manufacturers from recommending use for more than seven consecutive days. The move follows a recent FDA proposal which attempted to curb the use of Herbal Ecstasy, an ephedrine-based product which promised users a "natural high." Ephedrine supplements net between $15 and $30 million a year for leading manufacturers...
...including: a ban on smoking in workplaces and public areas; a ban on all cigarette advertising; a program to gradually reduce teen smoking, reaching 30 percent in five years, 50 percent in seven years and 60 percent in 10 years; an industry-financed multi-billion dollar smoking cessation program; FDA regulation of the industry, and labels that read "smoking kills" on cigarette packs. "What's on the table now goes beyond what any single legal victory could achieve,'' said Massachusetts Attorney General Scott Harshbarger. "If every state won their lawsuits tomorrow, we could not have the historic impact on children...
...diet-in-a-pill, to be marketed as Xenical, works by disabling pancreatic enzymes that help the intestines absorb the fat in foods. The drug produces "a kind of intestinal aversion" to fat, explains Dr. Jules Hirsch of Rockefeller University, an FDA adviser. "Patients learn there are consequences to eating more...
Orlistat is not the only weight-loss nostrum to target the mass market lately. Last year the FDA approved Redux, a drug that controls appetite by boosting levels of the neurotransmitter serotonin, producing a sort of chemically induced illusion of being full. A similar medication, sibutramine, is expected to be approved soon. Both drugs have side effects, however, including fatigue and insomnia...