Word: fda
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...study yet made" of DMSO, the controversial drug solvent that has been billed as a remedy for everything from arthritis to athlete's foot (TIME, Sept. 17, 1965). It developed that Dr. Kligman and his labs were investigating new drugs for no fewer than 33 manufacturers, and the FDA's Dr. Frances O. Kelsey, of thalidomide fame, began to wonder how thoroughly and carefully Kligman & Co. could do all that work. A check of the DMSO study showed that Dr. Kligman reported tests on three groups of prison volunteers, but prison records turned up only two groups...
...only the second time in its history, the Food and Drug Administration last week struck a physician's name from its approved list of researchers who are entitled to test new, investigational drugs on human subjects. The target of the FDA's action was Dr. Albert M. Kligman, a Philadelphia dermatologist, along with "all investigators associated with" three incorporated laboratories of which he is president and director...
Though the FDA's notice to vitamin makers and food processors reads like another of "GoGo Goddard's" sweeping attacks, the decision had actually been in the works for four years. The Government-backed Food and Nutrition Board decided four years ago that the term "minimum daily requirement" was widely misunderstood and abused. In its place, it proposed "Recommended Dietary Allowances" of eleven vitamins and six minerals, and last week the FDA finally put those recommendations into practice.*In almost every case the allowances are well below the previous "requirements...
...FDA also served notice that it intends...
...reprimand would be interpreted as a blanket indictment, yet conceded that "nobody in that room wanted to be with firms that were responsible for submitting the data mentioned in the speech." On the other hand, a high official of the Health, Education and Welfare Department, which supervises FDA, found the speech "a good first draft-but a bit intemperate...