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...FDA and later laws largely curbed the worst abuses of the snake-oil salesmen, but the "desire to take medicine" that Osier noted still dies hard. The biggest medicine-show extravaganza of all, says Author Carson, was staged in 1950 with Dixieland bands and Hollywood stars to promote a $1.25-a-bottle tonic that pulled in millions for a spellbinding Louisiana legislator named Dudley J. LeBlanc. The potion was called Hadacol, and it contained 12% alcohol. The Hadacol empire wound up in a tangle of bankruptcy proceedings...
...Among the few unfriendly witnesses that Kefauver called in his latest round of hearings was Dr. Hugh H. Hussey Jr., dean of Georgetown University's School of Medicine and chairman of the A.M.A.'s board of trustees. Said Dr. Hussey: "Efficacy" is beyond the FDA's power to judge because it is a misleading term. A drug that works for one patient may be useless for another with what appears to be the same illness, and only the individual physician treating the individual patient can determine efficacy in each case. Dr. Hussey argued further: "The marketing...
...have lost all touch with reality." The Administration is not backing the sweeping Kefauver-Celler bill, mainly because it cuts across the jurisdictional lines of too many Government departments. The bill will not be reported out this session. Likely to replace it is a bill now being drafted by FDA with the more modest objective of regulating the flow of new drugs, testing their efficacy before they get to market, and encouraging prescription by generic names. But with Kefauver regulating the spotlight, a good many unknown and disturbing facts about drugs and the industry have come tumbling out into...
...introduced last April in the Senate (and by New York Democrat Emanuel Celler in the House), the bill is a shotgun blast against everything that Kefauver dislikes in the pharmaceutical industry. It would require drug manufacturers to get licenses from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and give FDA power to inspect and close their plants. It would prohibit marketing of new drugs until they have been proved effective and make FDA the judge of effectiveness (it is now empowered to pass only on their safety, purity and toxicity). Under the bill, FDA could deny a license...
COSMETIC MAKERS will have to get a safety clearance from the Food and Drug Administration for their products before they can sell them, under legislation urged by Health Secretary Abraham Ribicoff. FDA recently seized 400,000 Hazel Bishop eyebrow pencils that FDA said contained irritating coal-tar colors...