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...That's exactly what anti-HIV drugs, known as antiretrovirals (ARVs), are designed to do: interrupt the virus at various points along its nefarious journey. The FDA has approved four different classes of ARVs, each of which blocks a separate step in HIV's life cycle. The strategy is to build up a security detail of pharmacological agents that together thwart the virus at every turn, making sure that every receptor, protein and enzyme that the virus co-opts to sneak into a cell is covered...
...only answer to AIDS. Already, says Dr. Roy Steigbigel of State University of New York at Stony Brook, and one of the leading investigators of Merck's isentress, volunteers have begun to develop resistance to the integrase inhibitor - a drug that hasn't even yet been approved by the FDA...
...which he said has been increasing the levels of nicotine in their products over the past nine years. Professor of the Practice of Public Health Gregory N. Connolly spoke before the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions in favor of granting the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulatory authority over tobacco products. In his testimony, Connolly—who was recruited by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56 (D-Mass.) to speak yesterday—stated that tobacco companies had increased the levels of nicotine in tobacco products by 12 percent...
...addition to shutting down production and disposing of existing jars, the company is cooperating with the FDA's inspection of the plant to figure out what went wrong. "A little deposit of salmonella growing inside a piece of equipment may have oozed out a bit of bacterial goop into the product," says David Acheson, Chief Medical Officer for the FDA's Center for Food Safety. He said that during the initial investigation of the outbreak, researchers considered - and ultimately rejected - the possibility that the outbreak stemmed from infected turkey meat or bananas, both of which were among foods eaten...
...says it has long tested 60 to 80 jars of peanut butter a day at the Sylvester, Georgia plant where it produces peanut butter, but never observed anything irregular. The plant is now on hold, while its 100 employees work maintenance shifts and wait for the results of the FDA's investigation...