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...Felbamate, a drug introduced last year to control epileptic seizures, has begun to show dangerous side effects: 21 patients out of about 100,000 users have developed a rare blood disease called aplastic anemia; four have died. The FDA and the drug's manufacturers have urged doctors to begin withdrawing patients from the medication, which is sold under the trade name Felbatol...
...Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first blood test for prostate cancer, substantially increasing the odds of early detection of the disease. Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer killer of American men. The FDA said that using the blood test bumped the accuracy of the traditional digital rectal exam by at least 25 percent...
...kingpin saved: FDA panel nixes over-the-counter hair-drug sale...
...Food and Drug Administration used key hearings today to define the battle over regulating cigarettes down to one simple proposition. "The bottom line question: Is nicotine in cigarettes addictive?" FDA commissioner David Kessler asked a parade of experts at the agency's Washington hearings. Most of the guests said yes. "Then why the debate?" Kessler asked. The drug experts, who called the fight with tobacco companies over addiction "semantic," posed some intriguing possibilities for regulation. One proposal: limit the nicotine in individual cigarettes to make smoking "really a free choice." That way, most people could smoke up to a pack...
...tobacco industry, under increasing government fire over allegations that it manipulated the nicotine content of its products to hook smokers, took another big hit. FDA Commissioner David Kessler told a House health subcommittee that the Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. developed and grew a high-nicotine tobacco plant and used it in several of its brands. CEO Thomas Sandefur contended that cigarettes made using the plant did not contain more nicotine. Meanwhile, the Justice Department announced its own investigation of tobacco-industry practices -- including the question of whether tobacco executives misled Congress...