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WASHINGTON, D.C.: Just two days after FDA approval, Home Access Health Corp. has begun marketing a new home AIDS test. TIME science writer Christine Gorman notes that the home test was considered very carefully because of concerns that those who test positive need to receive adequate counseling about what to do. Users of the new tests, Home Access ($39.95) and Home Access Express ($49.95), must send a blood sample to a lab, then call a toll-free number with a private personal identification code to get the results. If the results are positive or inconclusive, a counselor gets...
...American doctors and hospitals spend $75 billion every year treating patients who suffer life-threatening reactions to prescription drugs, Americans often can get better information on the snack food and cars they buy than the medicines they take. Even so, the Senate is debating a provision to block an FDA plan to make more complete drug information available. "The nation spends as much to cure the illnesses caused by prescription drugs as we spend on the drugs themselves," said Senator Edward Kennedy, who is fighting to preserve the FDA initiative. Fewer than half of those using prescription medicines know much...
Weld also emphasized his skills as a coalition-builder, citing examples of bipartisan cooperation with the likes of former senator Paul E. Tsongas and Senator Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 (D-Mass.), who opposes Kassebaum's FDA reform proposal...
Kerry said that he also supports FDA reform, and offered somewhat hesitant support to Kassebaum's proposals...
...must move on FDA reform and bring reform to the House floor," Kerry said, without endorsing Kassebaum's bill...