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Focused ultrasound (FUS) was approved by the FDA in 2004 and is available at 16 U.S. medical centers. Smith was treated at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. She lay belly down in a machine designed by an Israeli company, InSightec, for three hours the first day and almost four hours the second day. The device focuses high-frequency ultrasound beams at targeted spots of fibroid tissue, heating them to 180?. Doctors use magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to track the volume and temperature of the fibroids after each zap. No incisions are needed. The treated fibroids shrink and become dead...
NOMINATED. ANDREW VON ESCHENBACH, 64, as George W. Bush's third Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioner; in Washington. The promotion of Von Eschenbach, who has been acting FDA chief since the resignation of Lester Crawford last September, promptly stalled over the controversy surrounding Plan B, the "morning after" pill. A urology surgeon who has led the National Cancer Institute since 2002 (he now plans to retire from that job), Von Eschenbach enters a long-simmering battle. The Bush Administration has so far delayed a decision on whether to approve the emergency contraceptive pill for over-the-counter use despite...
...have applauded last week’s decision by the American Red Cross to call for the end of a government ban on blood donations from men who have had sex with other men. The ban, implemented in 1990, is a policy imposed by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). “I think the decision from the Red Cross is long overdue,” Ryan R. Thoreson ’07, one of the BGLTSA co-chairs, wrote in an e-mail. BGLTSA co-chair Mischa A. Feldstein ’07 said the current restriction...
...discovered on an Alabama ranch, record-keeping was so poor that inspectors could not immediately determine where the diseased animal was born or raised. Inspectors did not even know the animal's age and were forced to examine its teeth to make a guess (about 10 years old, the FDA estimates). Investigators are also unsure where that cow, which was euthanized and buried after it fell sick, may have fed. This is crucial because the disease is believed to be spread in cattle feed carrying infected brain, bone or spinal tissue from other cows. Any cow that ate from...
...promoting the idea that it's risk-free ?SHINGLES In Italy it's called St. Anthony's fire, a vivid description for the red, blistery and often painful rash that 1 million adults in the U.S. each year come to know as shingles. Merck is awaiting FDA approval for its shingles shot, Zostavax, which is designed to prevent shingles in those who are most vulnerable to the disease--adults over age 60. Shingles occurs when the chicken-pox virus from a childhood infection is reactivated--usually by the decline in immunity that comes with age--and travels from...