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...company Sandoz marketed its new tranquilizer Serentil with ads in medical journals suggesting the drug be prescribed to "the newcomer in town who can't make friends ... The woman who can't get along with her new daughter-in-law. The executive who can't accept retirement." But the FDA stopped the ads. Drugs are supposed to treat illnesses, the agency said, not the vicissitudes of living...
...chest. Low doses of current can then be applied as needed to calm the turmoil in the regions of the brain that cause OCD. The procedure sounds extreme--and it is--but it's already been used in about 35,000 people worldwide to treat Parkinson's disease, and FDA approval to use DBS for OCD as well is pending. "Many of our OCD patients are able to re-engage in life rather than being stuck at home," says neurosurgeon Ali Rezai of the Cleveland Clinic, who performs DBS surgery for Parkinson's and has researched...
...While the clove provision didn't please the American Lung Association and other groups, it hasn't cost their support - the measure to give the FDA oversight has been endorsed by every major U.S. health group. The FDA would almost certainly force cigarette manufacturers to list their ingredients, remove some harmful chemicals, further tighten advertising restrictions and prevent cigarette companies from making their product more addictive...
...Kennedy's measure is opposed by most Republicans (it has 52 co-sponsors, including 12 Republicans) on the grounds that it would essentially force the FDA to grant approval of something that is clearly bad for people, said Senator Michael Enzi of Wyoming, the panel's top Republican. "We know that there is no such thing as a safe cigarette," Enzi said in a release. "Proposals to have FDA regulate tobacco are a misguided attempt to force a deadly product into the regulatory structure developed for drugs and devices - products which do have health benefits." Enzi Thursday introduced...
...Kennedy's bill also splits the tobacco lobby by pitting Philllip Morris against everyone else. Companies like R. J. Reynolds, the maker of the Camel brand of cigarettes and the second largest U.S. manufacturer of tobacco products, oppose the measure on the grounds that the limits the FDA would impose on advertising would effectively lock in market share, favoring the market leader Phillip Morris...